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I have been given a parking ticket called a 'Standard Charge Notice' SCN not a pcn. It also says it relies on section 47(1) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984. I challenged it but they rejected it and said they would not withdraw the notice and that i must pay within 14 days.
I haven't had a 'Notice to Owner' form to make formal representations.
I thought that from 31 March 2008all councils had to to follow the parking enforcement framework contained within Part 6 of the Traffic Management Act 2004, or can they choose not to?
I'm totally confused as to whether or not i can appeal to the Traffice Penalty Tribunal as nothing seems to have the followed the normal course of events. Is this council taking the mick or can they do what they want?
How can they choose to use the RTRA 1984 - i don't understand - surely there is a legal requirement to follow the parking enforcement framework contained within Part 6 of the Traffic Management Act 2004.
It wasn't clear from your original post if it had been issued by a local authority or a private parking company who might have been trying it on. If the local authority have not opted for decriminalised parking then it effectively means that the only way you have of challenging the ticket is to go to a magistrates court.
Oh well - i guess i'll have to pay up then. Bloody councils are a law unto themselves.
Just for the sake of a full picture here, let me tell you what happened.
I was visiting my mother's doctors surgery to hear the explanation of the coroners report on my mum's death. It's not my local surgery so i had no idea that there were any parking charges in force and i didn't expect there to be as i have never experienced that before at any surgery.
So, i pulled up right outside the surgery and went inside. Came out half an hour later and 'bingo' - ticket! I honestly hadn't noticed any parking notices but to be honest my mind was on other things. I explained all this to the council department hoping for a little leniecy - but no luck.
So, it looks as if my luck is out again - not been a good year so far.
Wakefield had to refund a lot of parking tickest last year for non compliance and there are still many roads incorrectly signed which invalidates the ticket
The ticket say 'Stuart Road, Pontefract Parking Place'.
To be honest i knew that the carpark outside Morrisons (which is on the same road) was Pay and Display but why would anyone think that outside a doctors surgery was pay and display.
It makes no sense. I'm not skint and trying to avoid a £1.50 charge for goodness sake. If i had been aware i would clearly have bought a ticket. What ever has happened to common sense?
Is there a way of finding out which roads are incorrectly signed or what makes them incorrectly signed?
Totally, utterly confused - help please!!!
. It also says it relies on section 47(1) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984. I challenged it but they rejected it and said they would not withdraw the notice and that i must pay within 14 days.
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