Parking ticket given when one shouldn't have been...

[Puggit]

So Mrs Puggit was parked legally in Reading on Friday, in a residents' parking bay with a valid visitor's pass for the day. The visitor's pass is clearly being shown in the windscreen, and with post-ticket checking we can be 100% sure it's valid.

Obviously we'll appeal against the ticket via normal channels, and probably will go to the local rag. Is there any other legal recourse? Afterall, this is attempting to take money with menaces. We have independent witnesses, of a high local standing (one a director of the local NHS trust). We also have our own photographic evidence.

Any ideas?

[Dwight VanDriver]

You may consider waiting Puggit until such time as they respond to your representation. That response may contain some information as to why the PCN was issued.

dvd

[slow_poke]

www.pepipoo.com has an excelent forum on paking tickets.

[Parrot of Doom]

You might want to check if the bays themselves are legal - lots aren't.

http://web.mac.com/rmbscarb/iWeb/rmbconsulting/Mak...

I defeated 2 parking tickets on this basis.

[VictorMeldrew]

I defeated one once by writing to suggest how by re-marking the parking bays they could make room for more vehicles. They did, and dropped the ticket. Sometimes (if fact make that often!) confrontation isn't the best way.

[Puggit]

I don't need any help fighting the ticket (yet...). I'm asking about other legal action that can be taken against RBC due to them wilfully trying to take money with no legal basis.

This is the 2nd time we've been ticketed in this bay, despite legally using a visitor's permit. The first ticket was quashed on this basis.

[Dwight VanDriver]

Small Claims Court for time and trouble ?

dvd

[RichBurley]

All a waste of time, unless the OP has got PROOF that they are specifically trying to harass him, as opposed to someone else; and given the ticket was for his wife's car, then the person who would have to prove that is likely to be her, not the OP.

It sounds like the OP is trying to wage a war, when the best bet is simply to get the ticket quashed, and not get stressed about it.

Edited by RichBurley on Monday 29th October 08:12

[Jasandjules]

Does sound somewhat like an attempt to obtain a pecuniary advantage by deception to me.. I guess until you see their response as to why they ticketed the vehicle, then if it is c**p then it could be an attempt at theft. Sadly, plod won't be interested, and a private prosecution is a lot of time and money.

[mark69sheer]

Puggit said:

I don't need any help fighting the ticket (yet...). I'm asking about other legal action that can be taken against RBC due to them wilfully trying to take money with no legal basis.

This is the 2nd time we've been ticketed in this bay, despite legally using a visitor's permit. The first ticket was quashed on this basis.

You could ask a solicitor most have a free questions time in their schedule.
You could say that the tickets make you stressed and you can't sleep till the appeal is through.

I have an empty house for sale and the TV licensing people keep sending red letters warning of impending legal action...
I wish I could send the same back to them threatening damages for stress..

[jesusbuiltmycar]

Dwight VanDriver said:

You may consider waiting Puggit until such time as they respond to your representation. That response may contain some information as to why the PCN was issued.

dvd

In the Boscombe Sovereign Centre carpark someone got a ticket for sticking their pay-and-display ticket on the windscreen upside down!

[Dwight VanDriver]

What abso-bladdy-lutely peeves me is that it it had been a Plod that had glaringly issued a sus ticket then on a complaint he would have been hauled over the coals, may be up before the Chief and fined.

Has anybody heard of CEO being similarly dealt with (other than Sunderland where they caught on CCTV).

dvd

[Puggit]

Well - RBC have provided the evidence online, which clearly shows the permit correctly filled in.

There's going to be trouble...

[Biggriff]

and moonlight and love and romance?

[oldsoak]

Biggriff said:

and moonlight and love and romance?

....let's face the music and dance!

[oldsoak]

Parrot of Doom said:

You might want to check if the bays themselves are legal - lots aren't.

http://web.mac.com/rmbscarb/iWeb/rmbconsulting/Mak...

I defeated 2 parking tickets on this basis.

Would I be correct in thinking that the ONLY format of road markings that are accepted as LEGAL are those as shown on that website( 1028.4 and 1032)? a-la the non-prescribed (illegal) 1028 is a definite no-no?