Parking on council estates.

[Consumer dude]

Do councils issue Penalty charge notices or parking charge notices when parking on their estates

and am I right in thinking that these are private roads ?.

[honeybee13]

Can we have details of what's happened please?

 

HB

[Consumer dude]

Ticket issued for not displaying a valid permit and is a parking charge notice issued by a private company on behalf of the council.

 

 

In this instance,

who has issued the notice,

is it the private company or is it the council.

Further more the notice bears the logo of the local authority.

[honeybee13]

Can you post up a scan of it the PCN please? However, it was a council ticket, it would say penalty charge notice.

 

HB

[Jamberson]

When you say "council estate" I guess you mean some sort of contained area/building with alloacated parking like a carpark? Different situation to just a regular housing estate with road-side parking.

 

As said, we would need to see the ticket to know for sure.

[Oddfellow]

Depends whether it was the public highway or private land. Councils often now use private contractors to act on their behalf in issuing penalty charge notices for offences on the highway, but they can also use a PPC for private land that they own.

[Consumer dude]

The parking permit had an invalid start date on the permit which the council had endorsed by laminating over the permit but would they ever be held responsible.

[honeybee13]

CD, I don't think we have enough information to advise on this.

 

Please post up the story in one post and avoid the two line questions if you could.

 

HB