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Council PCN - parked outside marked bay

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Hi all

was given a £50 PCN by Wokingham Council today within Places Leisure Centre multi story for being parked outside the white lines 

I basically parked next to someone who must have parked shunted along and left some reasonable space which must have gone over the lines - but still flabbergasted, seems like a overly keen Warden 

any tips for an appeal? Or just lump it any pay the 50% early bird offer ?

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  • Nellymoser
    Nellymoser Posts: 1,584 Forumite
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    Get advice on the Free Traffic Advice forum https://www.ftla.uk/ they specialise in council and police motoring matters, whereas this forum specialise in private parking issues.
  • Umkomaas
    Umkomaas Posts: 43,413 Forumite
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    As we major on private parking tickets here, Free Traffic Legal Advice (FTLA) forum will be your best bet for council penalty charges. Register there but please note that a Hotmail address may not work - try using a throwaway Gmail account instead if you do have trouble registering, and post a new thread; here's your link:

    Read the sticky 'Read this first before posting your case' 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, and a Google Street View link.
    Please note, we are not a legal advice forum. I personally don't get involved in critiquing court case Defences/Witness Statements, so unable to help on that front. Please don't ask. .

    I provide only my personal opinion, it is not a legal opinion, it is simply a personal one. I am not a lawyer.

    Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; show him how to catch fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.

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  • Tinman45
    Tinman45 Posts: 63 Forumite
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    Thank you will post on FTLA site 

    this forum supported me in the past on a private PCN issue (went all way to court)  so was first place I thought of 
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