Parking Ticket advice

nitram100

nitram100

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Hey guys,

My nephew got a parking ticket yesterday outside my house in a parking bay.

He had a parking permit in his window to cover the whole borough, due to condensation the tape he used to attach to the window caused it to peel and fall off then land upside down on the dash board.

In the image you can clearly see the permit on the left.

What's the best way to word this in the appeal? Think he will get it waived?

http://imgur.com/a/7cP0l

Cheers!
 
I got a parking ticket once as I'd mistakenly displayed the ticket in the (pavement side) window rather than the windscreen. A friendly call to the issuing council resolved the issue, with the ticket rescinded.
 
You can try of course, but I wouldn't expect much. I once watched a tag team do two vans in Kensington, while the two drivers were talking to the one ticketing the front van, another warden sneaked round the back and did the rear van. :p
 
The rules probably say the permit needs to be clearly displayed - which it isn't. Can try appealing to their christmas spirit but it's a valid ticket.
 
nutcase_1uk said:
The rules probably say the permit needs to be clearly displayed - which it isn't. Can try appealing to their christmas spirit but it's a valid ticket.
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But if it is an accident and it fell as you can see in the picture he should get off, if not I'd give it to The Scum and have them put it in the rag.
 
Poor kid only makes 200 a week in some **** office in Central London, only 17 yrs old. This 60 quid is a huge hit to him especially at Christmas.
 
I had the same thing happen to me and I had the charge waived. However my permit fell off and landed face up. In the picture the warden took to prove that I parked without a permit you could clearly see the permit on my dash.

I took this picture but you get the idea.

https://goo.gl/photos/USn6rz7S8qyTLf9h8
 
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Give them a call. Say it WAS clearly displayed when it was placed there.
 
Might - if he actually had a valid permit. Maybe. It's the time of miracles, after all.
IF not, pay up, then send a bag of poo and glitter through their letterbox?
 
Cheers guys for the advice!

In the photos on the council website there isn't a photograph that clearly shows the permit facing wrong way.

Are they obliged to upload every photograph that they take?

Because if they are, I could just say the permit was displayed as the only photo with the permit displayed you can't really see if it's facing the correct way up or not.
 
Ekim said:
I had the same thing happen to me and I had the charge waived. However my permit fell off and landed face up. In the picture the warden took to prove that I parked without a permit you could clearly see the permit on my dash.

I took this picture but you get the idea.

https://goo.gl/photos/USn6rz7S8qyTLf9h8
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That is shocking that they still gave you a ticket, what a complete ****.
 
The issue is that the permit wasn't correctly displayed, the warden saw the permit shaped piece of paper but as it wasn't an actual permit issued a ticket (correctly as it could be blank both sides and used as a way of parking without a permit).

Now I would write to the council with a copy of the valid permit in the hope that they see sense and that it had in fact fallen face down and cancel the ticket, they may or may not depending how charitable the person you gets feels.
 
I did something similar, parked in a multi storey, got a ticket, put it on the dash, shut the door and left. Returned to a parking ticket, when I had shut the door the wind flipped the damned ticket over. I appealed and they cancelled the ticket but this was quite a few years ago when people were more friendly.

I would get him to appeal it, nothing to lose in the grand scheme of things and hope that it gets dealt with by a person who has some compassion and common sense.
 
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