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Parking ticket appeal
Hello everyone and happy new year to you.
I was recently working for a company dealing with an emergency leak in a flat in Portishead. I arrived just after 8am, parked in a clearly marked ‘visitors’ bay, noted that it was a private car park on a sign which at the time was partially obscured by a vehicle parked in front of it but I noted that a permit was required.
I was clearly in a van marked leak/flood and in a visitor bay with no way of obtaining a permit except for speaking to the owner of the flat I went to meet the owner and hopefully get a permit so at around 8:15 I left my van parked up (tracker states around 08:06 being the time the ignition went off)
I spoke with the lady in the flat who was just the tenant and didn’t have a permit, I then returned to my van at around 8:25-8:30 to assess what other options I had but I had already been issued a ticket with no traffic warden in sight.
I then appealed the parking charge with link parking on the grounds that their signage was unclear/badly placed and contradicted the clearly marked ‘visitors’ parking bays. The fact that you need a permit to park in the bays means a visitor is unable to park in them.
I unfortunately had to provide my name and details to link parking as the driver due to the fact that if I didn’t the van lease company would charge the company I work for to reissue the ticket and they will no doubt have provided link parking with my details anyway and charged me an additional admin fee.
The appeal was rejected and I was advised to appeal to the IAS which they are a member of. I did some research online and found that the Independent Appeals Service is anything but Independant as they are owned by the same people that also own private parking companies so haven’t bothered to contact them yet.
I am now wondering what my next best course of action is? I really object to paying a fine which I’m my opinion is completely unfair as I had nowhere else to park, I was parked in a visitors parking bay, there was no permit available, the parking attendant clearly didn’t give enough time between the van being parked and issuing a ticket and given the circumstances there was nothing I could have done differently to avoid a charge which is massively disproportionate to the cost the parking company incurred/may have lost.
Has anyone got any advice on what I should do next? Is it worth appealing with the IAS and if so on what grounds? Do I just ignore it until they try to take me to court? Or do I now just pay the £100?
Thank you in advance for your assistance
Hello everyone and happy new year to you.
I was recently working for a company dealing with an emergency leak in a flat in Portishead. I arrived just after 8am, parked in a clearly marked ‘visitors’ bay, noted that it was a private car park on a sign which at the time was partially obscured by a vehicle parked in front of it but I noted that a permit was required.
I was clearly in a van marked leak/flood and in a visitor bay with no way of obtaining a permit except for speaking to the owner of the flat I went to meet the owner and hopefully get a permit so at around 8:15 I left my van parked up (tracker states around 08:06 being the time the ignition went off)
I spoke with the lady in the flat who was just the tenant and didn’t have a permit, I then returned to my van at around 8:25-8:30 to assess what other options I had but I had already been issued a ticket with no traffic warden in sight.
I then appealed the parking charge with link parking on the grounds that their signage was unclear/badly placed and contradicted the clearly marked ‘visitors’ parking bays. The fact that you need a permit to park in the bays means a visitor is unable to park in them.
I unfortunately had to provide my name and details to link parking as the driver due to the fact that if I didn’t the van lease company would charge the company I work for to reissue the ticket and they will no doubt have provided link parking with my details anyway and charged me an additional admin fee.
The appeal was rejected and I was advised to appeal to the IAS which they are a member of. I did some research online and found that the Independent Appeals Service is anything but Independant as they are owned by the same people that also own private parking companies so haven’t bothered to contact them yet.
I am now wondering what my next best course of action is? I really object to paying a fine which I’m my opinion is completely unfair as I had nowhere else to park, I was parked in a visitors parking bay, there was no permit available, the parking attendant clearly didn’t give enough time between the van being parked and issuing a ticket and given the circumstances there was nothing I could have done differently to avoid a charge which is massively disproportionate to the cost the parking company incurred/may have lost.
Has anyone got any advice on what I should do next? Is it worth appealing with the IAS and if so on what grounds? Do I just ignore it until they try to take me to court? Or do I now just pay the £100?
Thank you in advance for your assistance
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