So today I returned to my car after a 45 minute stop to find a lovely yellow council issued PCN on my vehicle.
I've parked in this location plenty of times in the past although it has mainly been during the week so I know that you must pay and display. I even remember seeing a traffic warden up the road when I arrived. Anyway, I popped out the car after parking up and realised I didn't have any change. No problem I thought, I'll pay on card - oh, the ticket machine has duct tape over the card slot... Fine, I'll go onto the paybyphone.co.uk website on my mobile and pay. I signed up and punched in the location code 7724 (written on the machine) and it came up with £0.00 for parking until 8.30am Monday 11th Feb. Interesting as usually it's about £2.00 per hour but I typed in my card details and clicked purchase anyway - I got a receipt page and walked away - Safe in the knowledge my car had a 'ticket'. Wrong.
I got back to my car and started to wonder why this ticket had been issued - I then saw the sign next to the pay and display machine - "Business Permit Holders Only - ... Sun 8.30am - 2pm". I parked Sunday between 11am - noon so definitely in those hours - in this sense, I deserve the PCN and I'll hold my hands up if necessary.
However, I categorically would have not walked away from my car if I hadn't of got a receipt saying I had valid parking for that period (PCN issued at 11:22):
Where do I stand on this? I admit I was wrong to park there without properly reading the signs but had I not got that receipt so quickly I probably would have driven on to find somewhere else. Plus I do have a parking receipt for those hours - which I guess is clearly invalid as it's Business Permit Holders only - Grrrrr why didn't the website either tell me that I couldn't park there or offer valid times such as 2pm (after the business permit restrictions are over) onwards ...
I've parked in this location plenty of times in the past although it has mainly been during the week so I know that you must pay and display. I even remember seeing a traffic warden up the road when I arrived. Anyway, I popped out the car after parking up and realised I didn't have any change. No problem I thought, I'll pay on card - oh, the ticket machine has duct tape over the card slot... Fine, I'll go onto the paybyphone.co.uk website on my mobile and pay. I signed up and punched in the location code 7724 (written on the machine) and it came up with £0.00 for parking until 8.30am Monday 11th Feb. Interesting as usually it's about £2.00 per hour but I typed in my card details and clicked purchase anyway - I got a receipt page and walked away - Safe in the knowledge my car had a 'ticket'. Wrong.
I got back to my car and started to wonder why this ticket had been issued - I then saw the sign next to the pay and display machine - "Business Permit Holders Only - ... Sun 8.30am - 2pm". I parked Sunday between 11am - noon so definitely in those hours - in this sense, I deserve the PCN and I'll hold my hands up if necessary.
However, I categorically would have not walked away from my car if I hadn't of got a receipt saying I had valid parking for that period (PCN issued at 11:22):
Where do I stand on this? I admit I was wrong to park there without properly reading the signs but had I not got that receipt so quickly I probably would have driven on to find somewhere else. Plus I do have a parking receipt for those hours - which I guess is clearly invalid as it's Business Permit Holders only - Grrrrr why didn't the website either tell me that I couldn't park there or offer valid times such as 2pm (after the business permit restrictions are over) onwards ...
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