Advice on parking ticket please!

[DickyRobbo44]

I parked in a space that is a blocked of car park for an unused factory. Its blocked off with a concrete block. I have always seen people parking there its just typical the day i do i get a ticket. My question is thought, there are no yellow lines, im not touching any.

To really kick my while im down there are other cars parked on double yellow lines with no ticket that were there when i parked. I just dont understand the logic in that!

My question is do i have grounds for an appeal? Here is my car below followed by 2 others metres away.

 

 

I appreciate any help

 

Rich

[BankFodder]

I think you need to let us have a look at the ticket so that we can understand precisely what is the contravention that they are alleging.

 

Certainly, you should be challenging it. It is extremely unfair if you have been given a ticket and others on the yellow lines haven't. Clearly there are no yellow lines were your parking and you not obstructing anybody. Somebody is really being a "jobsworth"

[DickyRobbo44]

Thanks for the quick reply.

That street is literally full of cars on pavements etc and i think where im parked is probably the only legal spot of so i thought.

 

Below is a scan of the ticket.

 

Ok not sure why it came out so small.

 

The reason for charge is: parked in a resticted street during prescribed hours.

 

There are no signs or anything to say what hours are acceptable and cars are parked here all day every day.

[sailor sam]

Can you give us the location so we can take a look on street view and see what the layout is.

[Michael Browne]

Edgar St Liverpool L3?

 

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Edgar+st+Liverpool&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF8&hl=en&hq=&hnear=Edgar+St,+Liverpool,+Merseyside+L3+6JU,+United+Kingdom&ll=53.414418,-2.983518&spn=0.009247,0.014119&z=16&layer=c&cbll=53.414398,-2.983689&panoid=bJn-oGeU9m44DLzuzk2rrw&cbp=12,70.33,,0,17.72

[DickyRobbo44]

Thats right. But the factory is blocked of with concrete blocks all around and so is that entrance. Where the red car is where i parked. Unusual i no but i cant understand why cars parked on the yellow lines were left?

[sailor sam]

As I thought. The DYLs apply right up to the boundary wall which includes the pavement so where the red car is would be within the yellow lines. If the other cars which were parked on the yellow lines did not get PCNs, the i would write a letter asking for an explaination and suggesting that they consider cancelling your ticket under the circumstances.

[DickyRobbo44]

So its best to appeal on the grounds i was unfairly charged due to the other vehicles not getting charged?

[wackyone]

basicly yes, the traffic warden/civil enforcement officer is s'posed to treat everyone the same and as such should have ticketed every car on the DYL's

[Bernie_the_Bolt]

Er, no. You appeal on the grounds that you feel your PCN is invalid. What did or did not happen to others is of no consequence.

[patdavies]

I agree entirely with Bernie on this one.

 

Councils have discretion enshrined in statute, so not ticketing others is not a reason not to enforce your ticket.

[sailor sam]

So its best to appeal on the grounds i was unfairly charged due to the other vehicles not getting charged?

 

No, thats not what I meant. write a letter saying that as your car was the only one which had a ticket, perhaps they would consider cancelling your ticket as a matter of fairness.