Parking ticket - Southport

petermog

I got a ticket in London whilst I was obviously unloading my 18tonne wagon and despite my protestations and explaining of the law as I understood it, he still wrote the ticket. I wrote a letter to appeal as my employer just pays the lower fine to save 'the expense of an appeal' which I object to. They wrote back quoting the 'regulation that had been broken' so I went on the net, put the regulation into a search engine and the complete act of parliament (all 83 pages) was brought up and downloaded. I searched through it, and found the relevant sub-section. I then rang up on Monday morning and quoted the part I had been done under, then quoted the later section that over-ruled this law that was relevant to me. The fine was promptly cancelled. What I am basically saying is 'if they reject your appeal, don't give up'.

Justamum

We were visiting Southport last month and got a parking ticket when we visited Asda. We hadn't bought a ticket because we didn't know we needed one and we were very surprised to find a fixed penalty notice on the car. We live in the Isle of Man so weren't sure if they would be able to pursue us here. £30 is a lot of money for us and £60 would be impossibe to find. My husband was very angry about it and said we weren't going to pay, but I don't want to go to court, so unknown to him I paid - I'm in charge of the finances anyway. Was I stupid to do this, or should I have ignored it? I'd better go now in case my husband reads this and finds out I paid the fine!!!!

BWZN93

I think im going to put some sellotape in my car - so I can tape them down. I was in town today and they have the really stupid paper tickets with no sticky stuff, and as my car is fairly old, need to slam the door. Only the tickets kept moving grrrrrrrr. Sellotape or blutack in the car is the way to go - i hate appealing tickets because its takes so much time and is a big hassle, especially when the local council is run by people lacking in common sense...

Jo xx

owey

:idea: One easy way out of this is to have every ticket machine to have a keypad like a mobile phone so when you pay for it you also input your reg, so if you do get a fine there is no way they can say you never had a ticket, as it has the date,time and reg on it. I have never seen a machine like that before, but I am sure someone will tell me different?.

bernardh_2

I saw one of these machines in Rotherham. I suspect that it`s so you cannot give your ticket to someone else when you leave,but I suppose that it could keep a record so that you can prove you bought a ticket.