PCN for displaying permit in wrong car window

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I’m the owner.

PCM say the council is their client but they can’t provide the contract to me. From their response it seems the social housing flats behind us all have housing association agreements with parking restrictions in them. But I have nothing in any paperwork received since buying the house.

Coupon-mad

"The sole reference to parking is the previous owners declaration that parking is available on the road in question."

Date of that declaration?

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It was Feb 2016. Hand written by the seller (previous owner of my home) in the Property Information Form as part of the conveyance

Coupon-mad

And they owned it since?

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2007

PCM’s contract for the street began in 2011

UncleThomasCobley

Do your deeds state that the area that you park in is owned by you, the "freeholder"? If the previous owner wrote in their declaration to the conveyancing solicitor that you have the right to park there, whether you won that land or not, in of itself is not a guarantee. However, whoever did the conveyancing could be liable for not checking that fact out.

Do you live in a house or a flat?

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A house.

There is no more detail than the buyers declaration and I made sure to squirrel all paperwork together for safe keeping.

3 permits were left in the property on completion in 2016, and PCM posted a new replacement set of 3 permits to my address a few years ago

Coupon-mad

You house owners (and leaseholders) should have got together and all done this when PCM were first putting up their signs:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5997200/pcm-company-introduced/p1

Not too late to adapt the complaint that person sent. 

UncleThomasCobley

The issue is, who owns the land where you park your car. Unless it's a driveway which is a part of your property, you may not actually have any overriding rights to park where you did unless you can show that you also own that bit of land or that you have some other covenant or mention in your deeds that gives you the unfettered right to park where you did.

Dig out your deeds and have a good read and look for anything that specifically mentions parking other than on your own property, if that is at all possible.