Green Web Posted April 12, 2012 Share Posted April 12, 2012 99% of folk who contest a parking ticket with whichever council it was issued by have won their appeal - Myself included, 1 with SCC and 2 with Islington Council. I suspect there is many more who if they contested their parking ticket would have also successfully had their parking tickets refuted if they had the confidence, knowledge, courage, time and resources to do so. All other council departments have to be accountable for their actions, explain their stance and reasons for imposing and delivering many services, but this doesn't seem to apply to any councils parking services, and as they're unfairly breaking the law and wrongfully issuing parking tickets then IMO they should also now be more accountable for their actions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tsar Chasm Posted April 12, 2012 Share Posted April 12, 2012 99% of folk who contest a parking ticket with whichever council it was issued by have won their appeal - Myself included, 1 with SCC and 2 with Islington Council. I suspect there is many more who if they contested their parking ticket would have also successfully had their parking tickets refuted if they had the confidence, knowledge, courage, time and resources to do so. All other council departments have to be accountable for their actions, explain their stance and reasons for imposing and delivering many services, but this doesn't seem to apply to any councils parking services, and as they're unfairly breaking the law and wrongfully issuing parking tickets then IMO they should also now be more accountable for their actions. I voted no as this little gem applies to drivers also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walkley Dave Posted April 12, 2012 Share Posted April 12, 2012 If you think your ticket is issued wrongly then you appeal. If you don't think it is worth the hassle of appealing you pay. If you are not sure loads of help on the internet. Pepipoo for example. I don't really see the problem. When councils have issued a bunch of tickets wrongly - Hillsborough Bus gates for example - they repay. Excel Parking issued 11,000+ so called fines at a retail park in Stockport and they lost a defended court case when they tried to enforce one. Like to take a bet on how much they paid back? Thousands of people pay speculative invoices from Private Parking Companies each year when they have no need to. They are the people you ought to be after. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barleycorn Posted April 12, 2012 Share Posted April 12, 2012 If you think your ticket is issued wrongly then you appeal. If you don't think it is worth the hassle of appealing you pay. If you are not sure loads of help on the internet. Pepipoo for example. I don't really see the problem. When councils have issued a bunch of tickets wrongly - Hillsborough Bus gates for example - they repay. Excel Parking issued 11,000+ so called fines at a retail park in Stockport and they lost a defended court case when they tried to enforce one. Like to take a bet on how much they paid back? Thousands of people pay speculative invoices from Private Parking Companies each year when they have no need to. They are the people you ought to be after. IIRC they did not volunteer the money back to people who had been wrongly fined, you had to specifically request it back. jb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
truman Posted April 12, 2012 Share Posted April 12, 2012 I voted no as this little gem applies to drivers also. Surely the drivers who won their cases were in the right and, by implication, obeying the council's rules...if councils are wrong they should pay up..if drivers are breaking the rules then they should pay up... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tsar Chasm Posted April 12, 2012 Share Posted April 12, 2012 Surely the drivers who won their cases were in the right and, by implication, obeying the council's rules...if councils are wrong they should pay up..if drivers are breaking the rules then they should pay up... I don't disagree but that doesn't detract from the fact that drivers should be prepared to be accountable for their actions and too often on here they bleat on about getting caught. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cgksheff Posted April 12, 2012 Share Posted April 12, 2012 We need an indication of what percentage of total tickets issued were successfully appealed, before we can make any reasonable comment on the OP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Green Web Posted April 13, 2012 Author Share Posted April 13, 2012 We need an indication of what percentage of total tickets issued were successfully appealed, before we can make any reasonable comment on the OP. http://www.cancelmyticket.co.uk/ http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/cars/article-1708393/How-fight-parking-ticket.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cgksheff Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 http://www.cancelmyticket.co.uk/ http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/cars/article-1708393/How-fight-parking-ticket.html Neither of which answers the question. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
truman Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 Neither of which answers the question. No it doesn't but it shows that 65% of appeals are successful.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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