Parking Tickets - does a nice letter work or a waste of time
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Had a Ticket today for parking on a street where i shouldn't have without paying - hands up my fault!
However there is a little bit of mitigation - went to get ticket from the meter but as is typical found i did not have enough change and it doesn't take notes. After a bit of shuffling thru pockets etc went back to my car to go elsewhere only to find it blocked in by a delivery truck (this is nose to pavement parking so no chance of getting out). Anyway this is in a street full of offices on each of 3 floors. So I set off into offices to find said driver. After a few misses I hit on what i thought was the driver and he said he'd be with me in a minute. So I waited with him and when we finally got outside he was parked a bit further up and not blocking me at all. Typically the van that was blocking me had gone but I found a £20 ticket on the car in the meantime the warden states 14 minutes period on the ticket - i didn't particularly look at my watch but feel it wasn't that long. So do you reckon a nicely worded letter to the council is a waste of time??
However there is a little bit of mitigation - went to get ticket from the meter but as is typical found i did not have enough change and it doesn't take notes. After a bit of shuffling thru pockets etc went back to my car to go elsewhere only to find it blocked in by a delivery truck (this is nose to pavement parking so no chance of getting out). Anyway this is in a street full of offices on each of 3 floors. So I set off into offices to find said driver. After a few misses I hit on what i thought was the driver and he said he'd be with me in a minute. So I waited with him and when we finally got outside he was parked a bit further up and not blocking me at all. Typically the van that was blocking me had gone but I found a £20 ticket on the car in the meantime the warden states 14 minutes period on the ticket - i didn't particularly look at my watch but feel it wasn't that long. So do you reckon a nicely worded letter to the council is a waste of time??
Worth a nice letter.
I got off one in Islington last year, because I parked where the traffic warden bod had told me to park, only he made a mistake about which one of the four sets of bays in blocks of three I could park in with a temp residents visitors pass rather than a pay & display.
I was very surprised they waived it TBH.
I got off one in Islington last year, because I parked where the traffic warden bod had told me to park, only he made a mistake about which one of the four sets of bays in blocks of three I could park in with a temp residents visitors pass rather than a pay & display.
I was very surprised they waived it TBH.
It's worth a polite letter IMO.
I had one waived last year after I wrote and stated that the warden said I could park there for the rest of the day. They wrote back and said they were investigating, then wrote again a month later .. NFA.
Don't forget to mention the exact time the van was blocking you in which you can ask them to verify with the warden, and that in the cicumstances of you being physically unable to move your car, could the ticket be reveiwed please.
I had one waived last year after I wrote and stated that the warden said I could park there for the rest of the day. They wrote back and said they were investigating, then wrote again a month later .. NFA.
Don't forget to mention the exact time the van was blocking you in which you can ask them to verify with the warden, and that in the cicumstances of you being physically unable to move your car, could the ticket be reveiwed please.
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