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Aha, just had a second successful PCN appeal in nine months. Two out of two :thumb: Both tickets were issued for "parking outside the bay markings" in St John's multi-storey car park in Northampton town centre. As a town centre resident, I park there daily (and pay an annual fee). Now...

Whilst very very slowly reversing my 33' long ten ton motorhome outside the mot bay in (a.n.other) council's mot yard, a council owned sprinter van drove alongside my offside, then did a tight u turn behind me, causing a small collision. At the time, the manager and driver and i all agreed that...

Person A lives alone and is in receipt of a 25% council tax discount. Person B is moving in temporarily and so person A wants to declare this to the council and realises they'll lose their 25% discount during the temporary occupancy. All above oard. Person B is being asked by the council for...

Right so I was driving along a dual carriageway today with a grass verge in the middle, approaching two council workers who are strimming the grass. I thought to myself I hope that a stone does not fly and hit my car. Right enough just as I am passing them a stone was flicked up and has...

...and Elvis is alive and well and working at the local chip shop :mad: I've often thought that those responsible for roads in Oxfordshire were smoking something they probably shouldn't be, but anyone who feels that "the repairs team was coping well as ice, floods and snow combined to open up...

Apparently Nottingham Council decided it was time to give their city a clean-up. Street cleaners were sent out to pick up all the litter. Trees were trimmed, bushes were cut back from the pavements.... One council employee took it upon himself to go just one step further............................

Council housing sell off 'will create ghettos' - Telegraph

Our local council has changed the way re-cycling operates . Before the items were placed in plastic bags and the refuse collectors threw them into a cart segregated into compartments for glass,plastic/cans paper etc.Now we have to use re-usable bags and they are tipped by the collectors into...

has just sent me a council tax rebate of £10.78 - with no supporting paperwork, just a cheque. When I queried it they told me it was for a period in July 2006 :crazy:. Confidence in local government restored :rolleyes:.

Is that a MB in the closing shots (no pun as you will see) The Party on Vimeo

Hi all, We're just about to move home and have noticed amongst the paperwork that the house we're going to is in a Council Tax Band 'G' which seems a bit on the high side. It was built since the notional valuation date in 1991 but the sale price doesn't seem to justify the banding, if you see...

Today at 9 30 it was 6 celsius and i passed my first gritter of the year. A complete waste of money i think. Ive just checked and it is now +9 outside and a beautiful sunny day.Every year without fail there is a cockup here with the gritting teams getting it wrong. Last winter they got caught...

I know we have discussed it before here it is for those who have missed it: excerpt: Cheap MOTs: Beat repair costs using council test centres...

What's the rule for parking on a yellow line in a side street in Southall on a sunday? With no signs anywhere about restrictions. My appeal had been rejected due to "parking on single yellow is NOT permitted at anytime unless otherwise stated" Are we looking at sillybuggers here?

Yesterday I came home to find an envelope stuffed with Council Tax bills from 1998 to 2002 on the door mat, relating to a property I purchase in 1998 as a new build and sold in 2002. Upon closer inspection I noticed that there were credit balances on each bill, and an invitation in the...

The level of warranty claims against vehicles could rise ‘dramatically’ over the next decade, as a result of corrosion caused by a widely-used pre-wet gritting technique. Research by car manufacturer Volkswagen has shown that liability cases against its cars in Austria, where pre-wetting is...

Cars are trapped on 'illegal' driveways after council fits bollards in the middle of the night. Homowners woke to find their cars had been blocked in overnight by bollards. They say council workmen erected the barriers at the end of their driveways without warning. This left them no time to...

http://driving.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/driving/article3228483.ece "One in four town halls now get more income from charges such as parking than they do from council tax, the spending watchdog says today. The rise in charging comes as local authorities try to avoid service cuts. "...

I KNOW there's someone here who will know- There always is.:D I've recently bought a new build 2-bed flat in the centre of Bristol for £210,000. Regardless of the folly of such a purchase in current climate, I have just had the council tax rating notice through. Band D. Which is a heck of a...

My car was parked on a residential street in Dollis hill in Brent, as it has been on and off over the last year. Towards the end of last year Nov/Dec the council added temporary single yellow lines to the street as they extended a nearby residential parking zone, with a notice that these were...