How legal was your parking ticket?

[CleverClogs (RIP)]

£23m of parking fines 'may have been unlawful'


Almost 350,000 parking fines - totalling an estimated £23m - may have been unlawfully issued to motorists in London, a BBC investigation has found.

In 2010 a ticket issued in a suspended parking bay was ruled unlawful because Camden Council did not have authorisation for its signage. Now the BBC has learned 16 councils still have no authorisation for these signs, while others went years without.

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[CleverClogs (RIP)]

Re: How legal was your parking ticket?

SUSPENDED PARKING BAY AUTHORISATION

The following councils still have no DfT authorisation for their signs: Greenwich, Southwark, Westminster, Barnet, Bexley, Bromley, Croydon, Ealing, Enfield, Hillingdon, Kingston-upon-Thames, Merton, Redbridge, Sutton and Waltham Forest.

The following councils received authorisation in 2010 or after: Camden, Hackney, Lambeth, Harrow, Wandsworth, Havering, Barking and Dagenham, Brent, Newham, Hounslow, Lewisham and Haringey.

At the time of research Richmond-upon-Thames was applying for authorisation but did not yet have it.

[michael]

Re: How legal was your parking ticket?

According to DfT the following do have authorisation:

Barking & Dagenham, Brent, Camden, City of London, Hackney, Hammersmith & Fulham, Haringey, Harrow, Havering, Hounslow, Islington, Kensington & Chelsea, Lambeth, Lewisham, Newham, Tower Hamlets, Wandsworth

Traffic authorisations - Department for Transport

[Spent2much]

Re: How legal was your parking ticket?

well we have to park in parking bay for work and have a permit issued , one day we went to work and we were slightly over the no parking lines.
We were given a ticket and of £50 and if we paid within the month it was only £25 , We decided to appeal it and had to have a phone interview lol, the judge was a complet tosser, but as luck would have it the warden who issued the ticket had put the wrong code on it which made it invalid. The judge took great pleasure in telling my husband that if it had the correct code on she would have allowed the fine.

we argued that we were targets for a fine four days a week as we need to park to trade , but that made no difference to the judge

We sat and waited on none trading days just to see if the traffic wardens were targeting traders , and it indeed seemed to be the case as they only turned up on trading days.

scum of the earth in my opinion, preying on people trying to make an honest living .

[CleverClogs (RIP)]

Re: How legal was your parking ticket?

the judge was a complet tosser,

How do you know he had no bits missing?

[Spent2much]

Re: How legal was your parking ticket?

How do you know he had no bits missing?

ha ha one of those things you just know