anyone successfully challenged a parking ticket?

[alice]

Is there any way of getting out of this? no crits please

[edcam]

Why no crits? If you've been incorrectly ticketed then you should be challenging it. If, however, you were ticketed because you parked where you shouldn't be parked then why should you get out of paying it?

[ruffers]

If the ticket has been incorrectly issued, or there is a factual or procedural error even if you committed the offence, then an appeal will generally be successful. If there isn't such an error, and you parked where you shouldn't, then it generally isn't.

Give the information you've shared I'm not sure how much more help you're looking for.

Has it been correctly issued?

[Ron70]

alice Wrote:

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> Is there any way of getting out of this? no crits

> please

We recently got a ticket in Islington. They have different "no return" timings when the footballs on. We argued (successfully) that we didn't know the football was on.

Worth pursuing if you have a reasonable argument.

Ron70

[Lowlander]

Yes, I've successful appealed all parking tickets I've been given. Because they were wrongly issued.

But then I always try and make sure I don't break the rules...I might make a mistake one day, in which case I would just pay up and move on...

[rodneybewes]

There's a whole bit on here about private and public parking fines and how to appeal them. Good luck.

http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/reclaim/

[Salsaboy]

Yes I have and won. What do you want to know?

[alice]

thanks all who posted - will update

[oimissus]

yes, I did. It was one of those ones where there's no signage at all on the street where you think you've legally parked (single yellow on a Sunday - this was in Birmingham), but the council claim you are in a restricted parking zone. We went back and walked a good few streets out and couldn't find any signage to indicate we were in any such zone, which is what I said in my appeal. Never heard from them again.