Hi Thanks for the reply. My wife called the council yesterday and they agreed to accept the lesser sum of £35 but I still think something fishy is going on. My wife is adamant that there was no ticket on the vehicle and the warden was sat on his bike eating a kebab near her vehicle when she eventually drove off. Now if he had seen that there was no longer a ticketm, surely he would have told her that it had been removed by someone? Did he remove it? I think I will see if there are any CCTV cameras in the area. Cheers

Hi A few weeks ago, my wife was in a shop and saw a traffic warden hanging around;the shop owner told her to move her car as the warden's keen. Anyway she went to her car and came back satisfied that there was no ticket, told the shop owner who said that she must have got away with it. Yesterday, we received a letter asking us to pay £70 for the parking violation, but my wife is adamant that there was NO ticket on the windscreen (even though there is a photo of it). She admits that if there HAD been a ticket she would have accepted it and paid. I can only assume that it was a dodgy warden or someone had removed the ticket, but she says that there was no-one around What can we do? Cheers

Hi I will have to take a photo of the front of the machine and post later. The other machines are dotted around the car park but there are no directions on the street machine and the sign which states that it is only intended for use on the street is above the machine and a simple white sign- surely this should be in yellow or something and be more visible? I wouldn't mind, but it is not as if I was evading the cost or attemting to deceive anyone. Cheers

Hi Thanks for the reply and it was a local council who issued. Thanks

Hello all I am new to these forums and would appreciate some advice re a parking ticket I received. I received a PCN for dispalying a ticket not valid for the car park, as it was only valid for street parking. I bought the ticket in good faith in the firm belief that the machine was for use on the car park and I have attached a photo which shows my vehicle in relation to the machine where I purcheased the ticket. The irony is - I actually paid more for my ticket than had I bought the correct one!! It wasn't until I looked at the machine that I noiced a sign above saying that it was only valid for street parking. A number of questions: 1. Is it worth appealing on the grounds of an innocent mistake? 2 Is the ticket legal- - the ticket states that I was' Parked in a car park without clearly diplaying a valid ticket', yet the warden had hand written on the PCN bag ' Ticket not valid for car park, only street parking' 3. Whether the sign stating 'street parking only' is lawful- i.e. it was not a eye level and in white- should it have been yellow? Any help would be appreciated Thanks