Unfair Manchester civil enforcement parking ticket...

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I today received a ticket for parking somewhere I have been parking for six months.

 

Last year, CEOs told me of three roads of which the Traffic Act had expired on, whether it was a deal with a local university in relation to a large car park inaccessible due to construction work, they don't know, but they said you could put your car there without it being ticketed, 3 individual CEO's told me this same information last year.

 

I have parked on 1 of the 3 roads (but always the same one usually in or around the same location on the road) since last year to now, and received a ticket today saying that it Parked in a Restricted Street During Prescribed Hours. It also says I was parked on such a street where I believe that street has ended and that I am infact on another street, I am very certain that there is a road sign name just before where I was ticketed today which would prove I was infact on a different road to that ticketed.

 

However, in going off what the individual CEO's told me, I continued parking there no problems, each time whenever I saw a CEO this year, I always queried with them as to whether it was still okay to park there, as I was worried if the Traffic Act had expired in allowing them to govern such roads, what happens if they revalidate it, the CEO said they will give some grace period and give warning notes to cars for a few days before beginning to issue tickets once more etc, so I thought, okay, that's great, and continued parking there.

 

Then I wasn't very happy when I got a ticket today.

 

About 10 minutes after, I went to the petrol station and saw a CEO, I asked him whether it was because they had been given powers again to start ticketing that road and the other two also, he said he wasn't aware of it, and added that he the other day ticketed 5 cars to later be told by his control that they were on unenforceable roads and so he removed the tickets.

 

I later phoned the parking services telephone number as I was faily confident in contesting it but just didn't want the hassle of letter writing in a legal way etc, the person on the other end of the phone denied everything and said he wasn't aware and was just going off text book sentances explaning how I read parking signs etc. He was shortly removed from the other end of my telephone and so I just finished writing my letter of appeal now.

 

I am ending the letter in that I don't feel if it was a valid ticket, that it wasn't issued fairly in the fact that I was acting under information I went to seek from CEO's, or that we weren't given any notice if it was related to them being given powers to ticket in that area, and if I wasn't parked on that street and infact on the street mentioned on the ticket, then how come one time I asked a CEO whether it was okay to park there, which was where I got the ticket today, and he said it was fine, furthermore how come it has taken 6 months to get ticketed if it wasn't okay to park there.

 

The CEO I spoke to at the petrol station added it could very easily be that the CEO that issued my ticket didn't know about it being unenforceable etc but that I just had to write in and contest it.

 

Are they sufficient grounds to include in my letter? Or are they too much on the play of fairness which doesn't hold up enough on appeals?

 

Thanks

[crem]

 

Are they sufficient grounds to include in my letter? Or are they too much on the play of fairness which doesn't hold up enough on appeals?

 

Thanks

 

It's nothing to do with "fairness", either a TRO exists for the street or it doesn't. Clearly the information you have been given suggests teh TRO is invalid for that street. Appeal on that basis, i.e. that the offence did not occur, and/or you were not parked in the street they suggest. (do not say on which street you were parked)

 

Go into the council office and get a copy of the TRO for the street in question. If they can't provide it, then you will be safe appealing to the addudicator as they will have to produce it then (and obviosly still can't). If they do give you a copy, then hopefully the CEOs have been correct and you will be able to prove the TRO does not cover that street or has expired.

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Has this ticket been issued by the local council or a PPC?