Parking ticket :(

trinidad wrote:

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> also search for your three councillors on

> the council website and contact all three

> individually.

Do you tell each of them that you are also making representations to the other two?

> Southwark tend to reject most appeals informally.

Can you publish your figures please. And what do you mean by informally?

ianr Wrote:

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> trinidad wrote:

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> > also search for your three councillors on

> > the council website and contact all three

> > individually.

>

> Do you tell each of them that you are also making

> representations to the other two?

>

> > Southwark tend to reject most appeals

> informally.

>

> Can you publish your figures please. And what do

> you mean by informally?

Hello Ianr,

No I dont tell each of the other councilors that I have contacted each of them.

Yes you are right, the parking service generally rejects appeals during the informal stage. This is the stage when you have made a challenge during the first 14 days when the opportunity to pay is at the 50% rate. The formal stage is when you receive the Notice To Keeper in the post.

You requested i publish my figures, i did not know what that meant sorry.

I posted upthread after a similar experience to you.

We paid the fine and appealed but was rejected on the grounds that we didn?t check that

the payment had gone through (why would we? We?d received email confirmation).

Emailed our local councillor (Richard Leeming) who agreed it was bonkers. Not sure if councillor Leeming was directly involved but we received a refund today. Common sense finally prevailed!