Residents' parking permit expired

[anonymous-user]

The initial message was deleted from this topic on 06 December 2023 at 17:22

[Freddie Fitch]

Which council?

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It depends on the council. Ours are more than happy to put a ticket on any car parked without a permit. Now we have a parking permit scheme they are around 3 or 4 times a week. Before we had the scheme, we never saw anyone enforcing parking laws. They were even out on Christmas eve ticketing cars. But last year it was on Saturday and our scheme doesn't work on the weekend.

But I would suggest the fact you haven't recieved a ticket would suggest you have got any with it.

[ingenieur]

I think you'll be totally safe.

I am of the view (without doing any specific research on this particular scenario) that they would be legally required to serve notice if they wanted to fine you and if you've not had anything on the windscreen and nothing sent to the registered keeper then you won't be fined.

Just renew the permit ASAP and wait for (I think) 14 days and if nothing has arrived in the post then you're in the clear.

[Grumps.]

I would have thought they would send out reminders ?

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Boo-urns said:

Thanks all. Fingers crossed I'm in the clear!

I'm going to ring the council's parking office as soon as it opens on Monday to see if they've issued anything. Already ordered the new permit and will be parking half a mile away on an unrestricted street until it arrives.

Why? you will just alert them you have been parking without a permit. If you have been caught you will get a ticket.

[Austin_Metro]

Surely renew and wait and see.

I wouldn’t alert them to come and fine you!

[alscar]

Boo-urns said:

Thanks all. Fingers crossed I'm in the clear!

I'm going to ring the council's parking office as soon as it opens on Monday to see if they've issued anything. Already ordered the new permit and will be parking half a mile away on an unrestricted street until it arrives.

Personally I wouldn’t ring them seeing as you have already ordered the renewal permit.
Hopefully you have just requested the date to start from when the last one expired so no gap will appear on their records anyway.

[alscar]

Boo-urns said:

Haha! All good points. I did consider that alerting them would be an effective admission of guilt, but assumed they'd need to have already collected evidence to issue a fine. It's not like I'm owning up to having murdered someone! And as I say, I'm staying well away from the permit zone until I get my new permit. But, yes, perhaps the sensible thing to do is to sit tight.

I wasn't given the chance to specify a start date for the new permit, but given it's a renewal of the old one, I assume it will be backdated to 20th Feb.

If therefore backdated which hopefully is the case if they have already collected evidence ( which somehow I doubt ) then don’t do anything about any fines until the new permit has arrived which then date wise will negate such evidence !
I doubt most councils are that joined up anyway

[ScoobyChris]

Round our way they set up a permit scheme to dissuade those pesky commuters from parking in any street near the local train station. They had daily patrols for the first couple of weeks handing out tickets to anyone without a permit and then nada since.

Maybe you are similarly lucky!

Chris

[ingenieur]

ScoobyChris said:

Round our way they set up a permit scheme to dissuade those pesky commuters from parking in any street near the local train station. They had daily patrols for the first couple of weeks handing out tickets to anyone without a permit and then nada since.

Maybe you are similarly lucky!

Chris

I saw this sort of scheme in Bromley and they do still issue tickets. My mum got one.

Having to pay to park outside your own house is one of the most ridiculous ideas any local council ever came up with but it spread across London like wildfire once it had been done in one place. First time I saw it was around 2003 in the Clapham area.