Parking fine - worth an appeal?

[Esceptico]

Parking on our street is controlled. There are a few residents/visitors spots. Residents are issued with a couple of permits each year. One I sitck on the window of my wife's car. The other I put on a piece of card that I keep in my car. If I park on the road I put it on the dashboard. If we have a visitor I lend them the card. I took my wife's car to the garage yesterday (which was a waste of time in any case because I had to rebook the appointment owing to a mistake they had made). When I got home my wife had left my car on a visitor's spot and forgotten to move the permit from the little tray in front of the gear stick to the dashboard. Predictably she had of course picked up a parking ticket.

I took photos and the parking permit is visible from outside the car if you look through the side windows. However it is not as obviously visible as if it were on the dashboard.

As with all these fines if we pay now it is £60, if we appeal but lose it is £100.

Anyone with experience of a similar situation? Chance of success if appealed?

[Esceptico]

PurpleMoonlight said:

I thought that if you appeal within the reduced payment window you still only have to pay the reduced fine is you lose.

I had a quick of the ticket yesterday and it seemed to say the opposite. Also said you couldn't appeal the pay as paying invalidated the appeal.

[Esceptico]

silverfoxcc said:

Esceptico


sent you a pm

Thanks for that.

One point I should make is that our roads have not (as far as I know) been adopted by the council so the parking company is operating on behalf of the management company that runs our estate (which makes it even more galling).

[Esceptico]

I spoke with our management company and explained the situation and they are going to ask the parking company to void the ticket. Fingers crossed that solves the problem.