PCN at residential for parking over the line

grooverider23

Hi all,

I received a PCN today for parking a wheel or so over the line. I have parked this way for years and have not received anything up until now. Picture attached, park close to the wall as I do not want my car being hit by the other residents door.

I have attached pictures of the sign, it clearly doesn’t state I must be parked within the lines. 

I have appealed but have yet to hear.

My questions are can I continue to park like this regardless of what the appeal comes back with? I am about to put on offer on a house and do not want anything bad on my credit report. Should I continue and keep getting tickets? 

Also if they deny the appeal what is best to do? 

As you can see it’s a very trivial ticket which is pure money grabbing as it doesn’t affect anyone whatsoever.

Half_way

First thing you should do is to get in touch with the person who either owns or rents the space you parked in

Coupon-mad

Just ignore Link Parking at this early stage because there's no true 'appeal' on offer.

But when you move house you MUST contact them and their debt crawler scum to tell them the new address (obviously common sense to avoid missing a court claim).  Just wait for a LBC from Gladstones and keep your address up to date in your V5C and with Link.

See the second post of the NEWBIES thread.

To see threads like yours that progressed further, search the forum for:

Link Parking Gladstones.

I really really hope you aren't moving to another place with an ex-clamper parking firm?  Don't do that.  Car users must look to avoid such places.

Nobody needs a fake permit scheme in residential car parks. The regimes are an embarrassment to this Country: a scam to catch out residents and scare them into stupidly paying hundreds to a third party.

They don't do anything useful for you:

http://parking-prankster.blogspot.com/2016/11/residential-parking.html?m=1

After reading all these suggestions, complain to your Managing Agents about this PCN as they can cancel them.

Finally: make sure you leave a CLEAR WARNING for the new tenant and the URL link to this website.  They'll need it.

mebu60

grooverider23 said:

I have attached pictures of the sign, it clearly doesn’t state I must be parked within the lines. 

'Parked IN the correct allocated bay'.

Coupon-mad

mebu60 said:

grooverider23 said:

I have attached pictures of the sign, it clearly doesn’t state I must be parked within the lines. 

'Parked IN the correct allocated bay'.

Not sure how that assists the OP.  Even if they were parked sideways we wouldn't tell them to pay a firm like Link!

mebu60

Coupon-mad said:

mebu60 said:

grooverider23 said:

I have attached pictures of the sign, it clearly doesn’t state I must be parked within the lines. 

'Parked IN the correct allocated bay'.

Not sure how that assists the OP.  Even if they were parked sideways we wouldn't tell them to pay a firm like Link!

Absolutely not, no, for all the reasons stated above my post. I purposefully singled out solely the explicit statement the OP made as early as their second paragraph to highlight that the sign does in fact state what they say it clearly doesn't. Hopefully they will follow the suggestions already made to a successful conclusion. 

grooverider23

mebu60 said:

Coupon-mad said:

mebu60 said:

grooverider23 said:

I have attached pictures of the sign, it clearly doesn’t state I must be parked within the lines. 

'Parked IN the correct allocated bay'.

Not sure how that assists the OP.  Even if they were parked sideways we wouldn't tell them to pay a firm like Link!

Absolutely not, no, for all the reasons stated above my post. I purposefully singled out solely the explicit statement the OP made as early as their second paragraph to highlight that the sign does in fact state what they say it clearly doesn't. Hopefully they will follow the suggestions already made to a successful conclusion. 

I was in the bay. What defines “in”? 95% of the car was in. When did “in” mean 100% of the car? It’s subjective hence why most all of the others state within the white lines. Thanks for your great input though

mebu60

grooverider23 said:

mebu60 said:

Coupon-mad said:

mebu60 said:

grooverider23 said:

I have attached pictures of the sign, it clearly doesn’t state I must be parked within the lines. 

'Parked IN the correct allocated bay'.

Not sure how that assists the OP.  Even if they were parked sideways we wouldn't tell them to pay a firm like Link!

Absolutely not, no, for all the reasons stated above my post. I purposefully singled out solely the explicit statement the OP made as early as their second paragraph to highlight that the sign does in fact state what they say it clearly doesn't. Hopefully they will follow the suggestions already made to a successful conclusion. 

I was in the bay. What defines “in”? 95% of the car was in. When did “in” mean 100% of the car? It’s subjective hence why most all of the others state within the white lines. Thanks for your great input though

Therefore 5% of the car was "out". I am playing devil's advocate here btw. If you do as @Coupon-mad suggests it is academic. 

Tackleberry1965

This happened to me last week, just because some dopey carrot in the next bay wasn't straight. Less than half of my tyre was over the line. With pulling up and opening the driver's door, it obscures the line. It seems a bit petty.

Le_Kirk

You might cite de minimis non curat lex, the law does not concern itself with trifles and half a tyre over a line could be considered a trifle. If someone had encroached on your space the parking "management" company should have sorted that rather then sort you out a PCN but of course that makes no money!