PCN - for parking outside my own house!!

[doug_c]

I live in a small close in s.e London, I parked my car with two wheels on the pavement last night as there were no spaces left to park.

I come down to my car this morning at 9am to find a PCN on my windscreen.
The ticket issued at 8.44 am stating contravention 622 ' parked with one or more wheels on any part of an urban road other than a carriageway(partly on a footway)' - fair enough i accept this was correct, however it is unfair for me to recieve a ticket for parking on the road i pay to live in...!!

Now the first thing i notice is that the car parked next to me had not recieved a notice for parking exactly the same( and it had been there since last night too.)

Considering there was still nowhere to park this morning when i came down to my car and i have taken photographs to prove this, do i have grounds to appeal the ticket?
I'm not paying the bast*rds a penny, seeing as i had parked directly outside my house.

Has anybody else experienced a similar incident? any advice would be appreciated....

D

 

[Alfie]

I live in a small close in s.e London, I parked my car with two wheels on the pavement last night as there were no spaces left to park.

I come down to my car this morning at 9am to find a PCN on my windscreen.
The ticket issued at 8.44 am stating contravention 622 ' parked with one or more wheels on any part of an urban road other than a carriageway(partly on a footway)' - fair enough i accept this was correct, however it is unfair for me to recieve a ticket for parking on the road i pay to live in...!!

Now the first thing i notice is that the car parked next to me had not recieved a notice for parking exactly the same( and it had been there since last night too.)

Considering there was still nowhere to park this morning when i came down to my car and i have taken photographs to prove this, do i have grounds to appeal the ticket?
I'm not paying the bast*rds a penny, seeing as i had parked directly outside my house.

Has anybody else experienced a similar incident? any advice would be appreciated....

D

Suggest you pay first then argue. Otherwise the fine goes up and you end up ultimately with a CCJ against you!

Good luck

 

[Dieselman]

At the end of the day you were parked illegally, irrespective of where you are.

Your neibour just got lucky.

 

[glojo]

This is one of my pet hates, cars parking with just two wheels on a footpath... This is a big no, no. I don't care about excuses like there was ample room!! Roads are for cars, footpaths are for pedestrians. Do you expect people pushing prams to go out onto the road to get around your car?

We do not own the road outside our houses and technically the instant we park anywhere on the public highway we are obstructing it??
Sorry, but you hit a raw nerve,

John

 

[andy_k]

I live in a small close in s.e London, I parked my car with two wheels on the pavement last night as there were no spaces left to park.

so, there wasn't a single space in the whole of South East London????

what you mean is there wasn't a space within a few yards of your house so you decided to park illegally because you were too lazy to walk.

Sorry, no sympathy here either - mind you my car is currently parked about 100 yards away from the house.

On the pavement parking thing, in our road it is officially allowed on one side of the road and tolerated on the other since the bus service got upgraded from one bus a day to one every hour and they got sick of having to get people to move their cars all the time or getting the passengers off the bus for one to reverse when two buses were coming from opposite directions - apparently some silly law says buses aren't allowed to reverse with passengers on

Andy

 

[reflexboy]

Park Illegally-Get a ticket...Sorry no sympathy from me. Just because you live there, doesnt give you an exemtion to park illegally. Sorry, but gotta be harsh on this one..NEXT?

 

[Rumble]

Shame about the ticket, but does your house/property have parking alotted to each house, you might want to have a word with neighbours if your 'spot' was taken? Otherwise its a matter of park legally even if it means its away from your house. Dont think you have grounds for any appeal really.

 

[robert.saunders]

Considering there was still nowhere to park this morning when i came down to my car and i have taken photographs to prove this, do i have grounds to appeal the ticket?

D

No, wouldn't say you have grounds to appeal, sorry.

 

[racall]

In parts of north london you HAVE to park with two wheels on the pavement.they white line the pavement.

 

[robert.saunders]

Yes, many areas (not just London) have on-path partial parking, but only where signs and lines permit

http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2002/02311362.gif

 

[dougal74]

If you were blocking the pavement then I agree you should not have parked in that way and the ticket is justified. However, the law should have applied equally to the car parked in the same way as yours and therefore you might (and I say might) have grounds for appeal. Might be better just to hold you hands up however.

 

[Benzowner]

If you were blocking the pavement then I agree you should not have parked in that way and the ticket is justified. However, the law should have applied equally to the car parked in the same way as yours and therefore you might (and I say might) have grounds for appeal. Might be better just to hold you hands up however.

I would say there are no grounds for appeal, the other guy, as mentioned prior, just got lucky.

 

[MangoMan]

I'm a bit confused, where I live, and the surrounding suburbs, everybody parks half on, half off the pavement/roadway.

To be quite honest, if they didn't and parked on both sides of the road, the road would be blocked, except for maybe motorcycles!

There are no road markings or signs anywhere.

So please confirm for me that you are NOT allowed to park on any part of the pavement, unless there is a 'Sign' saying you can? I'm just wondering because I do this myself quite often, unless of course it says 'NO PARKING'

Thanks, Bill.

 

[robert.saunders]

You can recieve a "ticket" for parking partially or wholly on a footpath - what type of ticket you receive depends where you live essentially, but as you suggest, unless signs n lines dictate you can - you can't!

Although you may be in a road without restrictions, ie yellow lines, Police can issue for this type of parking. Whether they do or do not I guess is down to luck more than anything.

Rob

 

[Shude]

something I posted a while ago regarding parking:

http://mbclub.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=6841

 

[MangoMan]

Thanks Rob.

As I said I do it a lot of the time, because of necescity (spelling)(?). And also even the police do it if they stop & park, even without blue flashing lights, etc.

 

[RichieRuss2000]

Sympathise - though no parking on pavement is allowed... I once saw someone walking over the bonnet of a car that was blocking the pavement...!

 

[glojo]

I once saw someone walking over the bonnet of a car that was blocking the pavement...!

I bet the car driver was peeved!!!!

John

 

[dougal74]

I would say there are no grounds for appeal, the other guy, as mentioned prior, just got lucky.

Not true I know of a case where a ticket was given (correctly) for parking in an unlit area without a sidelight. The recipient of the notice argued successfully that all the other vehicles parked in the same way on the street should also have been ticketed at the same time. The officer could not justify why they hadn't been which cast doubt on the issue of the ticket and therefore it was thrown out.

 

[frog1520]

I once saw a W140 parked without any wheels on the kerb at all!! Pretty impressive that...