A couple of weeks ago Sonny recieved a parking ticket in the private car park where he leaves his car every day near work. He has always bought the tickets every day and this particular monday was just the same. On the tuesday when he returned to his car he had a parking ticket fixed on his windscreen with the cause of the ticket being " parked without ticket clearly displayed" The fine was £80 or £120 if not paid within a week. We appealed against this as Sonny had a valid ticket which we photocopied and sent with a letter explaining that the only reason we could think of that the ticket might not have been displayed correctly was that due to the severly windy day on the monday the ticket may have turned over as he shut the car door. We explained that we had parked there every working day for the past 4 years and had always paid for a ticket so would they overlook this as it had obviously been an accident.
Our reply from them was NO. We still had to pay. Well we haven;t. Sonny says he will go to court before paying. The weeks deadline has come and gone now so we await another letter. We have been onto a consumer site who have told us not to pay. It looks like it may be a bumpy ride for a while.