Parking Tickets...

[Barrel of Fun]

Has anyone successfully appealed against a parking ticket, in Brighton & Hove?

Overslept and didn't move my car in time on Saturday morning...

Unable to get temporary permit as my landlord pays the bills and I have not been issued with a copy of the electoral register.

 

[Muhammad - I’m hard - Bruce Lee]

i appealed twice successfully, but that was because i was in a works van and was parked on double yellows outside a property i was working in

not much help i know, but you can appeal

 

[Arthur]

To be fair though if your excuse is 'I overslept' I'm not rating your chances of successfully appealing to highly.

 

[Lammy]

I appealled successfully in Seaford when I parked in a taxi rank to pick up a perscription for my (then) 6 month old baby.

If you have no prior convictions they tend to let you off if you pick a decent enough excuse. I doubt it will work twice though.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

overslept , you have as much chance of a successful appeal as me becoming the next James Bond

 

[surrey jim]

the guy downstairs to me has had three this year already (2007)

 

[Jello]

I was parked overnight on double yellows and saw warden arrive in a van, park on said double yellow and started to write out ticket. I managed to grab my keys, jump in and move it before he'd finished. Think they have to either hand you the ticket or attach to car. He did neither, I appealled and had it quashed.
Don't fancy your chances if "I overslept" is your defence

 

[Barrel of Fun]

To make it clear, I am not going to use overslept as an excuse.

I was thinking along the lines of suffering from a 24 hour bug, which rendered me unable to buy any parking vouchers or move the car OR my ticket/voucher was in the vehicle, but fell in from the window.

 

[surrey jim]

To make it clear, I am not going to use overslept as an excuse.

I was thinking along the lines of suffering from a 24 hour bug, which rendered me unable to buy any parking vouchers or move the car OR my ticket/voucher was in the vehicle, but fell in from the window.

they will want to see the voucher then

 

[Barrel of Fun]

they will want to see the voucher then

I will purchase some and photocopy them. It will save me £27 if it works...

 

[surrey jim]

I will purchase some and photocopy them. It will save me £27 if it works...

good plan,

i parked in HH last summer during the heatwave and got a ticket out of a machine, must have fallen off the windscreen and i got a tkt, i sent it with a letter to MSDC and they cancelled it

 

[Barrel of Fun]

good plan,

i parked in HH last summer during the heatwave and got a ticket out of a machine, must have fallen off the windscreen and i got a tkt, i sent it with a letter to MSDC and they cancelled it

Ace! Power to the people.

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

BOF I dont want to rain on your parade but you really dont have a cat in hells chance...

Good luck tho

 

[nail-Z]

I parked in the multi-storey in Worthing on a Sunday without realising you still had to pay.

Fortunately for me the person parked next to me wasn't so stupid. As they left, on hearing my curses, they handed me their P&D sticker which covered the period the ticket was written out for.

 

[Yorkie]

good plan,

i parked in HH last summer during the heatwave and got a ticket out of a machine, must have fallen off the windscreen and i got a tkt, i sent it with a letter to MSDC and they cancelled it

That happened to me in Huddersfield. I'd paid for 2 hours parking and got back to the car with 30 mins still to spare. The ticket had fallen into the footwell. I drove straight round to the council offices and showed them the ticket (still with 15 mins left) and a gooey mess at the edge which was supposed to be the adhesive.
The ticket was cancelled straightaway.

 

[Knightsworld]

Tell them you were delivering glass, it works for us.

 

[Tom Bombadil]

Just pay the ticket, stop trying to weasel out of it.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Just pay the ticket, stop trying to weasel out of it.

The point is that it is scandalous that there is a 14 month waiting list in my area and I am unable to park it between 9am - 6pm on a Saturday. I am unable to get temporary vouchers as my landlord is in Panama and I am unable to get hold of the voting register. I am happy to pay if they still require me to, but I will offer them a reason as to why I did not have a permit on it. They could have given me some more time - Ticket issued at 9.12am. I got down to the cart at 9.20am.

 

[Bluejuice]

I wrote off over £100 worth of parking fines when I went bankrupt.

Simple solution

 

[Man of Harveys]

The point is that it is scandalous that there is a 14 month waiting list in my area and I am unable to park it between 9am - 6pm on a Saturday. I am unable to get temporary vouchers as my landlord is in Panama and I am unable to get hold of the voting register.

Unfortunately, these waiting lists in Brighton really are dictated by limiting supply and demand - I waited 18 months for mine, but if they immediately gave them to every person when they applied, there'd be nowhere to park. And my zone isn't even the worst - the West Hill and North Laine ones are.

As for the "guest" vouchers - speak to them, because I'd have thought that 2-3 forms of proof of address might do the job even if your landlord's away. I was down to my last two when the real permit finally turned up.