Many thanks to MoneySavingExpert

TsingiGirl

Many thanks to MoneySavingExpert for your exceedingly useful guide to challenging a council parking ticket.  I faced a £70 fine for not displaying a 'valid parking permit'.  The reason the permit wasn't valid was because the council had not responded to my request to put my new car's registration on a replacement permit for several weeks.  
I felt I was in a rather Kafka-esque world when my first appeal against the parking ticket was rejected because I'd not displayed 'a valid permit'.  By this stage, I'd still not received the updated permit.
Fortunately, your very sensible and easy to follow guide encouraged me to hold my nerve, wait for the next stage and then appeal again this time using the letter you have on the website.  As Megan French writes, the next appeal may be read by a different member of staff.  And so today - several months after all the original stress - I've been told the parking fine has been scrapped.  
Phew
Please keep up the good work, it really is appreciated.  

D_P_Dance

I am afraid that we can take no credit here.  We deak with private parking companies not Councils.

Umkomaas

Good news and well done. But are you sure you're posting on the correct sub-forum as this one deals with private parking tickets, not council tickets?

While we have a superb thread for newbies facing a private parking charge, it doesn't have any substantive advice on council tickets. 

Anyway, you sound mighty pleased to have kicked your council charge into the long grass. Nice one! 👌 

Coupon-mad

It’s certainly worth people knowing that Council PCNs are certainly appealable and that it usually involves a rejection at first stage, then appeal again at NTO stage and most cases are winnable if you have grounds.

And this forum DOES deal with all types of parking tickets so it’s not the wrong forum.  People should not be put off posting about LA PCNs here.

We as a group just choose to signpost people with Council PCNs to Pepipoo because they are all over those like a rash in the same way we are all over private ones.