Park Right: The easy way to avoid parking tickets. Guide discussion

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• This website helps you find all the free parking available in a given area.
  https://www.freeparkingspace.co.uk/
• Have to say the advice about private parking tickets really is due for updating. Let's call a spade a shovel and clearly tell people in the article, what the forum advice has been saying for over a year: no templates, no response, no appeal, IGNORE!
  The MSE article on PPC tickets actually says if they send you an invoice 'you'll need to reply'(?) when we ALL know that ignoring is the best tactic for private parking scammers.
  Advice was clearly given on Watchdog in May by clued-up Solicitor Tim Cary:
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAIcdi9niHA
  ...and in the Guardian recently, also by Tim Cary:
  https://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2010...ivate-property
  Martin's article on PPC tickets also says 'don't pay unfair private parking tickets'. The word 'unfair' needs editing out as it obviously goes without saying that a PPC parasite handing out fake parking tickets for an extortionate amount in a car park they don't own is unfair every time! Show me a fair one, in terms of contravention, signage, fair established contract with the driver and amount of charge?!
  Oh, and I think in one place the article suggests 'paying and then appealing the process' (what?!) or 'paying a small amount' (thereby accepting that a contract has been established?).
  Not good advice re private parking tickets, it needs changing IMHO.
• I've got off with fines before by not accepting the ticket. Rather than argue the toss with someone who is going to give me a ticket no matter what I say, I just drive off before they put the ticket on the car. I've not had a ticket having done this yet.
  Also, I believe that if the road markings are incorrect (such as the lines not being barred at the end of the restriction) then you can challenge the fine and get off the penalty.
  Hope this is of use.
• Something I'm never sure of is if you are allowed to "park" and wait in the car.
  Obviously I wouldn't cause an obstruction, but what's the deal with stopping on, say, double yellow lines or in a pay-and-display bay with me waiting in the car (with or without the engine on) while my wife goes into a shop, etc, for 20 minutes? We would do this, for example, if one of the kids fell asleep whilst we were driving.
• perhaps add a note
  that parking on pavements
  can be dangrous for blind people walking into you car,
  and for push chairs,
  and can damage pavements making them dangerous for blind people
• Holders of 'Blue badges' should beware of leaving their badges on the dashboard for extended periods (days) so that they fade. While renewing mine, I was told about someone who got fined Ј60 because the jobsworth warden said that their faded badge was invalid because it couldn't be easily read
• What are the rules for dropping and picking up passengers where there are double yellows with double blips. I don't think the guide covers it?
  And same question when there are also traffic wardens glaring at you giving the impression that they can't believe you would do that.
  Mike
• My wife recently got fined for displaying 2 tickets.
  She bought one and displayed it. I think the first was for about 90 mins.
  Within that 90 mins she realized that she was going to have to be a little longer.
  She bought a second ticket for 30 mins and displayed that next to the first.
  She returned with about 5 mins to go to find a ticket. She had been there for 115 mins. The total time she was allowed there was 120 mins no return.
  Should she have a ticket?
  I believe not - she was entitled to have her car in that sopt for upto 2 hours. Fair enough if it was over. If she had originally bought a 2 hour ticket there would have been no problem.
  She was actually ttrying to be honest about it. She could have got the 90 minute ticket, then taken it off and slapped another 90 mins down after removing the first. She was trying to show that she intended to vacate the space in under 2 hours.
  When we originally filed a complaint saying that there are NO RULES on the meter saying don't display 2 tickets, they replied with an over complicated letter that really didn't explain anything properly.
  If you ever wondered how Hull gets its regeneration money, now you know
• My son receive two parking tickets for parking his car inappopriately.
  He did not move his care during the period of parking but when returning to his car he had been given 2 tickets for the one parking offence. Is this allowed?
• Broken Single Yellow Lines/Double yellow lines
  Anyone know if the above type of lines are enforceable say for example if they are (only) broken
  because of a grating on the road.
  I think that single yellow lines and double yellow lines by definition have to be continious -
  unless some other restriction applies. i.e limited waiting.
  In some places the single and double lines are beyond the gratings on the road and for that reason are continious. But in other places they run alongside the gratings and because of that they are broken.
  Any thoughts on the legality?
• I'd like to know exactly what is a 'bulky item' - becasue there is no exact weight requirement for loading.
  I read it somewhere that a postage stamp can be deemed a loading item - as clearly you are loading this stamp onto your car.
  I'm not saying that this is the law but if anyone gets caught for popping into a shop for a bag of crisps , it may be a defence to say you were loading the crisps.
• i was proud to get my daughter off this one. visiting her sister in hackney she used a paid for scratch off parking voucher. she scratched off the relavent times, dates etc but missed the am/pm section. (easily done ). she got a ticket all be it that all times were obviously am or pm because it was free for the other same time. ie they used the 12 hour clock so 11 o'lock am is paid for and 11 o'clock pm is free. luckily she arrived at 12 o'clock midday and after consulting with greenwich found out that this is 12 noon and not am or pm. got a snotty letter back from council but they had to waive the ticket. yea, i felt good!
• @blackpatch, if the lines are broken by a grating etc then they are still enforceable, as long as their intention is still deemed clear.
  @mandyk, yes you can recieve multiple tickets, usually within seperate 24 hr periods, so in theory could be ticketed at 11:59 pm and 00:01am
  @alexkerr, by not addressing your appeal point the council actually handed you a reason for the ticket to be cancelled, you should have taken that to adjudication and you would have won on that point alone.