Post Easter party time at PATAS

71% chocolate

In the slightly short week after Easter there were 28 appeals heard and of those 20 led to parking tickets being cancelled, a 71% success rate.

 

In a quarter of the cases the towel was thrown in.

 

There was a very naughty case in Hutton Grove. A motorist parked in a bay where there was not a sign on the bay so the warden calmly photographed the next bay along. The adjudicator is not easily fooled by such trickery and checked on google streetmap to see where the bay sign photograph was taken and that it was not where the car was parked. I do hope that motorist claims expenses.

 

In Stanhope Rd there was still a pay and display machine in November 2012 (I do hope we have not paid a fee for its removal) and unsurprisingly it wouldn't accept any money. The adjudicator would cancel the parking ticket though.

 

In a fascinating case someone had their credit ca5rd stolen. They rang Verrus for advice and were more or less told to park, not pay and appeal. The wrong advice was a good basis for appealing.

 

A bus lane sign was covered in graffiti and so the ticket was cancelled.

 

It was a very quiet week. Please keep on appealing and increase the volume of appeals for future weeks.

 

Have I mentioned that I am a friend of Mr Mustard? He has written a short guide to appealing. You can download it here.

 

Yours appealingly

 

Miss Feezance

CPZ parking tickets are no joke

We are all expected to be perfect nowadays and if we do the slightest thing wrong, such as parking in the wrong place because the signs are unclear then we get hit with a parking ticket. This is expensive and does not add to the quality of life.

In some quarters the London Borough of Barnet is known as Broken Barnet because it's management is itself far from perfect but that does not stop them from issuing at least 100,000 parking tickets ( Penalty Charge Notices = PCN ) every year. So a simple error could cost you £100 or more. For a person on the minimum wage that represents over 16 hours of work ( if we exclude tax & NI - so more like half the week's wages gone ).

Is this really the sort of society that we want to live in ?

So the purpose of this site is to help you to fight back in the London Borough of Broken Barnet against their one-sided and inefficient parking controls.

What do they know at the the London Borough of Broken Barnet, sat in their over-manned ivory towers ironically entitled the North London Business Park ( well it is in North London, and it is a park of sorts, and oh yes, plenty of funny business does go on there ) ?

What they don't know is how to put up a sign marking the start of a CPZ ( Controlled Parking Zone )  or what length the lines should be that are painted on the road or what to put on the little signs on poles at each bay. So this website is going to help you hang on to your money, stop the Council collecting Council Tax in the guise of PCNs and give you guidance on what to say in your appeal as many of their tickets have been issued when they should not have been.

Broken Barnet is a big place so Miss Feezance needs your help about which more shortly.

Yours appealingly

Miss Feezance