Fathers Parking Ticket Dispute - Meter Reader on Changing Restrictions

justinjustice

Hi everyone,

My father works as a meter reader and recently received a Parking Charge Notice (PCN) while parked on a customer's street. The issue is that the street's parking restrictions had recently changed timings, and he claims he wasn't aware of the update.

Attached, picture of the PCN.

He parked legally based on the previous restrictions, but unknowingly exceeded the new time limit while inside the customer's house. The short duration of his visit further emphasises his unintended violation.

• Has anyone faced a similar situation challenging a PCN due to unawareness of recent restriction changes?
• Are there any specific grounds for appeal based on short-term work-related parking and lack of knowledge about the update?
  
  Any insights or guidance from the community would be highly appreciated. Thank you!
  
  

Umkomaas

As we major on private parking tickets here, PePiPoo will be your best bet for council tickets. Register there but please note that a Hotmail address won't work - try using a throwaway Gmail account instead if you do have trouble registering, and post a new thread; here's your link:

http://forums.pepipoo.com/index.php?act=SF&s=&f=30

Read the sticky 'Read this before you post' as well as reading through some of the other threads there ahead of posting your own details, to get the hang of what information they need from you in your opening post - but as a minimum you will need to post redacted photos/scans of all correspondence you've received from the council (both sides, if appropriate), as they need to see all the small print.

Debszzzz2

Pepipoo is no more. Try its reincarnation as "Free Traffic Legal Advice" at https://ftla.uk

Le_Kirk

Since we concentrate on parking charge notices from unregulated private parking companies, you would be better off taking this over to our friends on https://ftla.uk  (the recently started forum to replace Pepipoo),  as they are the experts on council and police issues.

You will need register before reading the FAQs, then posting both sides of your PCN with your query.

Private

https://www.ftla.uk/private-parking-tickets/

Council

https://www.ftla.uk/civil-penalty-charge-notices-(councils-tfl-and-so-on)/

Police

https://www.ftla.uk/speeding-and-other-criminal-offences/

This what I post now to replace Pepipoo.