Mitigating Circumstances for Parking on Pavement?

[Glassman]

"62 Parked with one or more wheels on or over a footpath or any part of a road other than a carriageway"

NW9 London.

Mitigating circumstances.

1. The vehicle was attending a pre-booked appointment to deliver/collect glass.

2. On arrival, there was a truck on the opposite side of the road for a close-by building site. Parking on the road would have restricted, if not blocked the road, and rather than risk losing a mirror/scrape the side, the decision to park with two wheels up was made. There was still enough room for a triple buggy to get by on the pavement!

3. There were two other vehicles two cars away, also with two wheels on the pavement, but they were not ticketed. The neighbours came out and said they park like this all the time and none of them said they had a dispensation to do so. Disparity?

The most annoying thing about this ticket is that there were three of us, in a garage (on the driveway the 'offending' vehicle was parked across) and you could clearly see there was something going on for the vehicle to be parked so; the SLD was also open. He must have been really keen - and quick - to have slapped the PCN on without being spotted as we were in and out of the garage moving stuff (mainly glass). Whatever happened to 'policing'... he "observed" the offence for a minute - but couldn't see that the vehicle was (quite obviously) at the house it was parked - with a loading door open - in front of a driveway to a (residential) garage which had its door open.

It was also 9pm (when he ticketed it) FFS.

Any chance of successfully appealing this?

Edited by Glassman on Thursday 26th June 06:53

Edited by Glassman on Thursday 26th June 06:55

[bga]

It's worth a go.

I was ticketed for the same when I was checking the oil in my S2000 and popped the wheels on the curb to make up for the heavy camber.

[PurpleMoonlight]

Response:

1. So what.

2. Park elsewhere.

3. So what.