Car Uplifted from (Home Zone) Edinburgh Scotland £180 recovery

[eather]

Hi All, I am hoping I can receive some information as to whether it is worth my appealing against my car being up lifted from a "home zone" in edinburgh on saturday morning.

 

I basically parked in an area of private bays (no permit required) sadly there was no bays and the surrounding region is all double yellow lined. I therefore noted another resident had parked up on a raised area, this an area which did not impede access or egress for any emergency services, or pedestrians, else I would not have done so, also as I said I noted previously on prior occasions people had parked there , incidentally when I went out at 3.55pm there was a car where mine used to be ..

 

Upon leaving my friends home at 3.55pm I noted my car had gone, I noted it to the police and they stated it had been uplifted at 7.55 am that morning.

 

I duly collected my car form the pound at a cost of 180 pounds, and collected an appeal form. the ticket issued stated it had been

 

01 : Parked in a restricted street during prescribed hours.

 

Now there were no signs to say you could not park on this area, nor were there any other spaces around.

 

below are the images of the area, and the specific spot where my car was.

 

Oh one other thing is that the car colour stated on the ticket issued , was for a blue car when mine is actually green...

 

 

 

 

 

 

So that is all the images I have , I did note a very disheveled notice on a lamp post which was both out of sight and ery damaged . I think I had a picture of it somewhere but cat see it, ie there was no signs saying i could not park there, and this is in an area completely out of the city ,. although the surrounding couple of miles is all double yellow lines...the most ironic thing being, another car was in my spot when I noticed mine had gone...

 

any help or advice you guys can offer would really be appreciated,..

[esmerobbo]

You don't need signs you are on a double yellow line no parking at any time. The restriction for a DYL goes from the centre of the road to the boundary! ie the fence or the edge of the parking bay.