My missus got pinged by a traffic warden in her car last week for parking in a residents only zone. Ok fair enough you might say, but she was visiting a friend who is a resident, and parked outside her house. This friend does not own a car.
Does she have grounds for appeal or has she just gotta ■■■■ it up? This is a bona fide parking ticket, not a speculative invoice.
She would need a residents parking permit to be able to park there regardless of her mate having no car, we have these in parts of Bristol and a mate of mine who is a plumber won’t work in these areas because he cannot park anywhere near where he’s working and lots of tradesmen do the same.
Ahh well, didn’t think she’d have a hope but thought I’d ask. Cheers for the reply BB
Your wife’s friend can get generic visitor passes. I know this doesn’t help this time, but could be useful in the future.
Ok I’ll tell her, thanks
If its on private land contest it. If your friend has a parking space reserved then she is entitled to let visitors park there. I’m not saying do this but if it was me I’d ignore the ticket as it is on private land, these are virtually unenforceable now and cost more to prosecute than they can claw back. Another option is to write to the ticket issuer offering to pay the local rate or even include a cheque to cover the cost of the local paid carpark plus a small amount for admin. Explain that you had the permission of the resident to park there. If they did take you court they would have a very difficult job convincing the court you should pay more. Its advice I was given and it seems to work.
Gangan:
If its on private land contest it. If your friend has a parking space reserved then she is entitled to let visitors park there. I’m not saying do this but if it was me I’d ignore the ticket as it is on private land, these are virtually unenforceable now and cost more to prosecute than they can claw back. Another option is to write to the ticket issuer offering to pay the local rate or even include a cheque to cover the cost of the local paid carpark plus a small amount for admin. Explain that you had the permission of the resident to park there. If they did take you court they would have a very difficult job convincing the court you should pay more. Its advice I was given and it seems to work.
Ignoring them used to be the standard action, thats no longer the case due to changes in the law and now quick reaction is called for instead, the parking companies are having success where they didn’t before due to responsibility falling on the owner of the vehicle if the driver at the time cannot be identified.
Forum Pepipoo is where you will find up to date answers.
DaiDap, your Mrs can still appeal via the local authority appeals process, nothing to lose by doing so bar the cost of a stamp, maybe a letter of support of the facts by the resident might sway it.
Juddian:
Gangan:
If its on private land contest it. If your friend has a parking space reserved then she is entitled to let visitors park there. I’m not saying do this but if it was me I’d ignore the ticket as it is on private land, these are virtually unenforceable now and cost more to prosecute than they can claw back. Another option is to write to the ticket issuer offering to pay the local rate or even include a cheque to cover the cost of the local paid carpark plus a small amount for admin. Explain that you had the permission of the resident to park there. If they did take you court they would have a very difficult job convincing the court you should pay more. Its advice I was given and it seems to work.Ignoring them used to be the standard action, thats no longer the case due to changes in the law and now quick reaction is called for instead, the parking companies are having success where they didn’t before due to responsibility falling on the owner of the vehicle if the driver at the time cannot be identified.
Forum Pepipoo is where you will find up to date answers.
I have ignored two now with no consequence, the latest was about four months ago.
Gangan:
Juddian:
Gangan:
If its on private land contest it. If your friend has a parking space reserved then she is entitled to let visitors park there. I’m not saying do this but if it was me I’d ignore the ticket as it is on private land, these are virtually unenforceable now and cost more to prosecute than they can claw back. Another option is to write to the ticket issuer offering to pay the local rate or even include a cheque to cover the cost of the local paid carpark plus a small amount for admin. Explain that you had the permission of the resident to park there. If they did take you court they would have a very difficult job convincing the court you should pay more. Its advice I was given and it seems to work.Ignoring them used to be the standard action, thats no longer the case due to changes in the law and now quick reaction is called for instead, the parking companies are having success where they didn’t before due to responsibility falling on the owner of the vehicle if the driver at the time cannot be identified.
Forum Pepipoo is where you will find up to date answers.
I have ignored two now with no consequence, the latest was about four months ago.
Good for you, but i know what my lucks like…
We had one last year from a store in some Godforsaken west mids area i’ve only ever been in the lorry, checked the picture and sure enough they’d misread the bugger and a completely different vehicle, so we let it run, and run, and run, eventually when it was getting to the point where summons about to issued i phoned them and asked them to check the pic again…ha ha cheerio…enjoyable because it cost them all sorts.
However, they weren’t going to let it go, and i wasn’t prepared to let it go to court because under the circs the judge might not have found it that amusing if i let it get to court time wasting point, you have to know when to say uncle.
It wasn’t on private land, but a normal public residential street. Might try an appeal tho.
DaiDap:
My missus got pinged by a traffic warden in her car last week for parking in a residents only zone. Ok fair enough you might say, but she was visiting a friend who is a resident, and parked outside her house. This friend does not own a car.Does she have grounds for appeal or has she just gotta ■■■■ it up? This is a bona fide parking ticket, not a speculative invoice.
Get the missus friend to go to the council and get some scratch off parking permits.Scratch of the offending date then photo copy the permit and send it off with your appeal stating you must have left the window open slightly and the permit fell down.Works in my area…!
My daughter lives in Portsmouth near the football ground and they have parking permits. When we visit, she can give us a card to put in the window, but she has to pay for them. We usually park around the corner where the permits don’t apply.
Gangan:
If its on private land contest it. If your friend has a parking space reserved then she is entitled to let visitors park there. I’m not saying do this but if it was me I’d ignore the ticket as it is on private land, these are virtually unenforceable now and cost more to prosecute than they can claw back. Another option is to write to the ticket issuer offering to pay the local rate or even include a cheque to cover the cost of the local paid carpark plus a small amount for admin. Explain that you had the permission of the resident to park there. If they did take you court they would have a very difficult job convincing the court you should pay more. Its advice I was given and it seems to work.
Reading between the lines; OP implied it wasn’t on private land and therefore, by saying that it wasn’t an ‘invoice’.
You don’t say anything to a private parking firm, when they try and extort money from you. Instead, you ignore!
DaiDap:
It wasn’t on private land, but a normal public residential street. Might try an appeal tho.
The usual route of appeal is against the parking bay marking, just about all the markings in the area I live are wrong, but council haven’t done anything about them as they don’t have many appealing tickets because of them.
Is this similar to able bodied people using a disabled persons blue badge to justify parking closer to the shop door, because they are “shopping for the blue badge holder.”…