Its an instant reaction to drive off if a CEO is about to issue a ticket; the fact that I was there to load and it didnt happen due to the CEO telling me its too late in full view of the two staff coming out and telling me to hang on while they get the stuff meant i took this action. The other thing is, I received no ticket through the post, just a NTO for a £130 (Which i believe is sent after non payment?) of a ticket and this was sent after 43 days. Usually tickets are £60 range. I am now thinking the CEO is either claiming he put the ticket on my car, or they may claim it was sent to me and I did not get it!!

What if the first correspondence from the council is a NTO, no PCN as in my case.

Thats my point, he had just got there and I had to drive away but he was still telling me it was too late. I was not able to have the furniture loaded due to this even though the people came out and was clearly saying they needed to put it in my car.

Thanks to MB re regulation 10, I will look into that carefully as the notice was issue over 43 days from the the occurrence. @sgtbush- not only did i come out and state to the CEO that loading was taking place but also the people from the shop but it made no difference. As you well know these CEOs have their targets and really don't care for reason.

Thanks for your response but you seem to have missed the crux of what i was saying; ie there was no where else to park to load the item of furniture in my car. Had i parked further awasy there was not way the staff would have been able to get the furniture into my car. In effect, I was loading but there was np such loading bay near the shop.

I received a ticket for parking on a single yellow line one Saturday. I was parked outside a shop for less than 5 minutes and was in no way impeding anyone. I had gone into the shop to collect an item of furniture that I was buying and that was the easiest place to park as they could just carry it out of the shop and put it in the car for me. It is not something I could lift on my own. I was always under the impression that you could park in places such as this and get given a 5 minutes' grace' period. I was in the window and could see my car and moved away for less than 2 minutes to pay at the till. I came back to check and saw the warden clearly 'waiting'. When i rushed out he said that it was 'too late'. I said to him he could not have been there as i was looking at the car and had only briefly moved away and he denied this. The ticket was sent in the post which suggested to me he had not written it out fully . It took 2 months from the date to arrive. The ticket says the LA is prepared to consider 'extenuating circumstance' I feel my situation warrant this. Does anyone know if this is likely to be considered and also can anyone clarify the rules around the 5minute 'grace' period.