52m failing to comply with a prohibition

Qwerty987456 · 3 June 2021 at 3:34PM

Hi,

I'm hoping to get some advice lol.

My girlfriend has started a new job, and she's been using Google maps (no excuse) to get to work.

There is a car park which she uses, and has paid the ticket, no issues. The issues lie with the road leading to the car park.

I have 2 penalties for the same road and to be honest never even noticed the sign... Anyway. She has 2 weeks worth of them.

Now, my 2 say 'I was seen in prohibited zone on 5/05/21'date of the notice is' 23/05/21' and we've received today 03/06/21.

After reading a few previous threads on here I signed up due to the good advice.

There's nothing saying about pofa on the letters so assume contract law?

I will post scans of the letter obscuring my personal details.

Thanks!

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Herzlos · 3 June 2021 at 4:00PM

Have you had a look for the sign in question? If it's damaged or missing then you might have a case, if not then it's an expensive lesson.

tacpot12 · 3 June 2021 at 4:14PM

These penalties are not covered by contract law, but by the Traffic Management Act 2004.

If the sign(s) are not missing/damaged or unclear in some way, your girlfriend could write immediately offering to pay, say, five of the ten tickets she has received and asking for the council to show some discretion as she clearly didn't see the sign for some reason. She might make the point that she would have not repeated the offence so much if the PCN had arrived more quickly. She might catch the council officer on a good day and might save a few hundred pounds.