What are the consequences of multiple parking tickets?

FutileBreadMachine · 15 Jan 2012 at 12:55

I've googled this and can't find the answer, so my next port of call is obviously GD

What is the maximum number of tickets you can get for parking illegally on a double yellow line for example? Will they eventually tow your car? And is it like 1 ticket every 24 hours? Can it ever lead to points on your licence?

Bit of background: the neighbours that moved in to the flat above us a few months ago are complete a-holes and often park on the double yellow lines in front of our flat, which obscures the view turning left into the road, so you can't see oncoming traffic. They've been ticketed before, but continue to do it, and both their cars are sitting there now with tickets. They also park in other people's parking spaces in the residents' parking, and I've seen the guy's car parked across 2 spaces before. The guy drives a big new land rover, and the woman drives a merc, and every weekend they go out clubbing I think, then come home at around 5AM and have very loud sex. The woman just screams at the top of her lungs, it's really ridiculous (I mentioned this in the noisy neighbours thread). I even wrote them a letter asking them to tone it down since her moaning always wakes me up and it goes on for a while, so no idea what the guy is doing to her

I don't know if they have so much disposable income they just don't care if they get ticketed, so I was wondering (and hoping

) if they would face some consequences for their selfish ways.

Cleeecooo · 15 Jan 2012 at 12:57

Next time you hear them, knock on their door and ask to join in

twist3d0n3 · 15 Jan 2012 at 13:00

multiple fines?

SMN · 15 Jan 2012 at 13:03

Paint stripper both cars.

FutileBreadMachine · 15 Jan 2012 at 13:04

twist3d0n3 said:
multiple fines?

But is that it? So if some rich git decides he doesn't care about getting a ticket, he can park wherever he likes (as long as they don't tow there) and just pay the £60 fine or whatever it is every time he is caught? I thought eventually the police would decide he was flouting the law after a certain number of occurrences and give him some points.

Ahleckz · 15 Jan 2012 at 13:04

Scrape down the side of their car as you take yours out of the corner. Prats like that deserve it.

The1nonly1 · 15 Jan 2012 at 13:41

is their a maximum? you have 60 days to pay each fine, im guessing you get warnings if you do not pay them and them maybe court?

Destination · 15 Jan 2012 at 13:46

Back to the old favourites.
If paint stripper doesn't solve your problem, then petrol will.
If you want to get cute about it, stick a pair of false plates on the car and call crimestoppers

Watch ensuing hilarity.

-edit
None of the above is advised or advisable, don't do it.

DavidMarq · 15 Jan 2012 at 14:00

RationalGaze said:
I've googled this and can't find the answer, so my next port of call is obviously GD

What is the maximum number of tickets you can get for parking illegally on a double yellow line for example? Will they eventually tow your car? And is it like 1 ticket every 24 hours? Can it ever lead to points on your licence?

You can only be served with one ticket in any 24 hour period for the same contravention. A vehicle can be removed from a double yellow line as soon as the PCN is issued, unlike a parking bay where the enforcement authority must wait 30 minutes prior to removal.

Vehicles can be towed away for multiple unpaid tickets once they have reached the Order for Recovery stage in the enforcement process.

You cannot get points for unpaid parking tickets.

FutileBreadMachine · 15 Jan 2012 at 14:08

DavidMarq said:
You can only be served with one ticket in any 24 hour period for the same contravention. A vehicle can be removed from a double yellow line as soon as the PCN is issued, unlike a parking bay where the enforcement authority must wait 30 minutes prior to removal.

Vehicles can be towed away for multiple unpaid tickets once they have reached the Order for Recovery stage in the enforcement process.

You cannot get points for unpaid parking tickets.

Cheers for the info mate, knew I'd get some sense eventually

. Was expecting a lot more "Nuke them from orbit/Smash her pasty/Cool story bro" before then though, so well done GD

DavidMarq · 15 Jan 2012 at 14:12

RationalGaze said:
Cheers for the info mate, knew I'd get some sense eventually . Was expecting a lot more "Nuke them from orbit/Smash her pasty/Cool story bro" before then though, so well done GD

No worries.

There is very little that I don't know about the cilvil enforcement of parking contraventions, so if you have any more questions I can probably answer them.

mame · 15 Jan 2012 at 14:29

I thought about making a similar thread. I know of a couple of take-away places that always park their delivery car right outside on double yellow lines. Granted, the car is probably on the move more than it's parked up but it's every night. Surely they must get tickets?

Roadkillv1 · 15 Jan 2012 at 14:32

send a pic of yourself fapping to the sound of them doing it. that should put them off next time.

i hope.

maybe not, if they're kinky

DavidMarq · 15 Jan 2012 at 14:43

mame said:
I thought about making a similar thread. I know of a couple of take-away places that always park their delivery car right outside on double yellow lines. Granted, the car is probably on the move more than it's parked up but it's every night. Surely they must get tickets?

I will depend on the local authority and the hours that the CEOs work. Some only enforce in the day time or until early evening.

Also it is permitted to wait on a double yellow line to board and alight passengers and for the purposes of loading and unloading. A take-away driver could argue the loading exemption if just going into the shop to collect his next delivery order.

Slade2 · 15 Jan 2012 at 15:01

Manchester City have employed someone to fetch and pay all of one of there players parking tickets i read somewhere the other week, he will also go and collect said car if/when its towed away.

My boss used to park on double yellow lines all the time but he owned the building and was often in court for not paying them i dont believe to this day he has ever paid one for parking at the back of work since he does actually own the land and it was the council that painted the lines on his land i dont suppose they can do much about it?

gambitt · 15 Jan 2012 at 15:58

Who are the tickets issued by? Is this a public road or is it part of your block of flats?

FutileBreadMachine · 15 Jan 2012 at 16:13

gambitt said:
Who are the tickets issued by? Is this a public road or is it part of your block of flats?

Issued by the council, it's a public road. The reason there are yellow lines there are that it's on a corner, so if there are cars parked there, as you turn left you will not be able to see oncoming traffic.

Aedus · 15 Jan 2012 at 16:16

Brick + Their car = Profit

Andy90 · 15 Jan 2012 at 16:25

RationalGaze said:
But is that it? So if some rich git decides he doesn't care about getting a ticket, he can park wherever he likes (as long as they don't tow there) and just pay the £60 fine or whatever it is every time he is caught? I thought eventually the police would decide he was flouting the law after a certain number of occurrences and give him some points.

Parking on Double and Single yellow lines was devolved to local councils some years ago. It isn't anything to do with the Police anymore. In my own area the Traffic Wardens who were employed by the Police Authority became employees of the local council.

You also cannot get points on your licence for non-endorsable tickets or council parking tickets. The only tickets you can get points on your licence for are endorsable tickets, which are issued by the Police for stuff like Speeding, Bald Tyres, Failing to Conform to Red Traffic light etc.

fobose · 15 Jan 2012 at 21:32

Would it be worth knocking on their door and asking them pretty please not to park there?