successful appeal against parking ticket..

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I always assumed unless there was some question as to weather you should have actually got a ticket they would reject the appeal...

however

My partners daughter got a ticket for returning to her car and putting a 2nd 2 hour ticket on it (it was a 2 hour no return type bay) she got a ticket (fair enough)

She was helping arrange her grandmothers funeral, and she is also heavily preganant, she wrote the council a letter telling them this (it is true btw) they asked for a letter from the doctor to be sent to prove she was up the duff.

THey let her off the ticket! I was amazed I did not think they would care as there was no dispute that she broke the parcking rules...
 
Daily Mail headline:

"PREGNANT WOMAN PERSECUTED BY PITCHFORK WIELDING COUNCIL - Soon to be Mum told her Grandma isn't good enough".

Not saying you're like that... but I could see such a thing happening.

They applied extenuating circumstances to your case and took pity, the council are only humans in the end :)
 
I successfully appealed one recently on the grounds that there was snow on the ground obscuring the single yellow line at the time I parked there, but which had melted the day after when I got a ticket :)
 
I appealed one once on the basis that the sign saying the bay was restricted parking had been stolen and so I had no way of knowing I shouldn't park there all night :P
 
The council can be reasonable sometimes.

In last year's snow I had to ditch my MX-5 as I couldn't get up a big hill (the first half of the hill took me 10 minutes, in a very slow diagonal fashion alternating between wheel spin and stall) and I left it on double yellows for about 16 hours, and I didn't get a ticket.

However, I wouldn't *expect* them to be reasonable.
 
They had to stop ticketing here.

Wisely came to the descision that it would be blown wide open by the fact everything was smothered in snow.

You can't get done for lines you can't see. Or stuck cars etc.
 
I left my girlfriends to find two wardens doing this stereotypical stance whilst taking my car details......was like uber wtf. Apparently I was parked too close to the alleyway for the fire brigade to get through, even though there was plenty of space.

Thankfully I think they just registered how long it had been sat as I didn't get a ticket.
 
I picked a ticket up the other day in Haringey.

The front wheel of my van was on the bay line. My fault, I didn't realise the parking bay which was about 200m long had a 1m break in it for no reason (no dropped curb or access required) with a single yellow line.

I bought my ticket at 14:59 and got the parking ticket at 15:01. I was unloading the van for a minute or two so I just know I was being watched by the PCO.

As soon as I left the vehicle he slapped me a ticket despite there being loads of empty space and 2 hours remaining on my parking.

It's £80 being reduced to £40 within 14 days.

I went to pay the other day and they do not have an on line service, I have to send a cheque or pay by phone. How ridiculous in this day and age.

A bit of common sense and the PCO asking me to roll back 6 inches would be the morale thing. I assume the PCO is on some bonus scheme.
 
Tesla said:
I picked a ticket up the other day in Haringey.

The front wheel of my van was on the bay line. My fault, I didn't realise the parking bay which was about 200m long had a 1m break in it for no reason (no dropped curb or access required) with a single yellow line.

I bought my ticket at 14:59 and got the parking ticket at 15:01. I was unloading the van for a minute or two so I just know I was being watched by the PCO.

As soon as I left the vehicle he slapped me a ticket despite there being loads of empty space and 2 hours remaining on my parking.

It's £80 being reduced to £40 within 14 days.

I went to pay the other day and they do not have an on line service, I have to send a cheque or pay by phone. How ridiculous in this day and age.

A bit of common sense and the PCO asking me to roll back 6 inches would be the morale thing. I assume the PCO is on some bonus scheme.
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Council or private firm?
 
They do sometimes use a bit of sense.

Ages ago now my Mum got one for parking in a town square 5 minutes before she was technically allowed to (they were clearing away market stalls, though they'd already finished). She did that because she needed to get an urgent prescription for my sister and Boots was closing. The parking guy must literally have watched her park and gone straight over, as she wasn't more than a couple of minutes in the store. Anyhow, she wrote the the council and they dismissed it.
 
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