I sent my appeal off yesterday so I'm just waiting to hear the result now, thanks for your help both of you, especially you Ting. To be honest I really think that since I've included all the relevant sections quoted from the legislation, I don't see how they could get away with not rescinding this ticket. Thanks again, I will let you know how I get on!

It's not a great pic but there's the sign... it basically is just a white 'p' on a blue background and says 'Permit Holders Only'. That would be great if you know of any legislation specifically related to it, since all the official websites keep stressing that 'I didn't see the sign' is not a valid excuse, so it'd be good to have something to back it all up. And I think we can be fairly sure this isn't a preservation area, and there's definitely no sign posts around if it is.

Thanks for that Michael. So basically, the first two photos show where we parked (if you look up the street in the first one you can see a lamp post, which was where the nearest 'permit holders only' sign was on our side of the road) and the second one is just from the other side to show that there was no sign there. And then I took these other two just to show the contrast between the area we parked and got a ticket and the road next to it which was so clearly signposted and marked which we avoided: The PCN itself claims it's a Code 12 for parking in residents or shared parking place without a valid permit. Just looking at these pictures now makes it all seem a bit more ridiculous...haha, i probably shouldn't think about it, it just makes me a bit more annoyed about it! Thanks again, Andrew

You're probably better off just checking the university website itself and going through all internal appeals first before turning to external means, it just keeps everything simpler and people (within the university) are more likely to take your side.

NPower repeatedly ignored our attempts to change the name on the bill and sent the bailiffs in to collect our (or anybody's!) stuff...

Ah ok, thanks for that Michael I will get on to that now.

Ah ok, that sounds good, I've got a few good pictures but I can't seem to work out how to post them in the message at the moment (it says I'm not allowed to under posting rules, maybe because I only joined today?), I'll try and stick them up in the morning once I've figured out how to go about doing it.

Hi, I was hoping someone could offer me some advice. I got a PCN for parking in a residents permit area in Leeds yesterday but the area where we parked didn't have any bays marked or anything on the road itself. The road that we turned off had large signs saying 'Permit Zone' and there were yellow cones and yellow lines all the way up the street but when we turned off on to a smaller street we couldn't see anything so we parked up figuring that it was alright. When we came back and found a parking ticket we had a look up the street also found that there were small blue signs saying 'Permit zone' ever 15 metres or so on alternate sides of the street (there wasn't one by our car) so I accept that we were in fact in a permit zone but do you think we have any chance of appealing it? We only parked there because we were avoiding the area with the large signs, yellow cones and yellow lines and thought that we were parking legally. Also, most other resident permit areas that I know of in Leeds have white bays marked out as well as the signs. Do you think I've got a case? Thanks in advance for your help, Andrew