PARKING TICKET!!! please help?

Question

I just got a £60 parking ticket even though i had paid and got a valid ticket and the time wasn't up! i parked in a car park which was completely full so i found a parking spot next to another car, which didn't have the white box round or any markings, and i got a ticket. I was not blocking any right of way, or blocking people from coming in or out of the car park etc. Please help is this legal. Their was no signs on the walls, ground or parking machine to say you weren't allowed to NOT park in a box!!! OR OUTSIDE THE BOX ETC... please help,

p.s NO SILLY ANSWERS. THANKS XX

Answer 1

Try an appeal anyway - most of them win, or so Iv heard

Answer 2

Depends on the laws in the location.   If being in a box is required,  then you were in violation.    

Consider going after the car park manager.   They should never have taken your payment if they could not provide a legal parking space to you,    the implicet agreement is that providing you a space is the service for which you are charged.    If there were no available spaces,  they should never have allowed entry.

Answer 3

Your own common sense must tell you that those white boxes are there for a reason.

Answer 4

i no it doesn't seem fair but to them you were parked illegally am afraid you will just have to pay it...........

Answer 5

Sorry Sara,

You are done for! You will have to bite your lip and pay!

Look on the bright side though - at least you don't get penalty points!

Answer 6

unfortunately in a private car park or a council owned one the parking bays have to be clearly marked... if you were not in the parking bay then you get a ticket... fighting it is futile im afraid.......

Answer 7

check the sign and the machine, if it says as part of the conditions that all vehicles ,ust be parked in the marked bays, then it will be easier to just pay up

Answer 8

Yes, if you were parked in a non marked space, you got a legitimate ticket.  You wouldn't need a sign to tell you things that are obvious.

Answer 9

You will possibly have to pay up! However, send them a photocopy of your parking ticket and ask them to re-imburse you with the amount paid. They took money from you and did not provide you with a service. Get your money back.....out of principle!

Answer 10

Yes it is legal.

In any car park, whether it is privately owned or run by the local authority, you are required to park with all four wheels inside a marked bay.

Any vehicle not in a marked bay can legitimately be ticketed or clamped (so you were actually quite lucky...).

Answer 11

The depth of cluelessness here continues to amaze me.

You say yourself that you parked outside of a parking space. That's your clue that you were parked illegally. The white lines defining spaces ARE YOUR SIGNS.

Answer 12

The company that operates the car park sets the rules.   Contact them as soon as you can and explain, although sadly I doubt if they'll be compassionate.  They have to make a profit too and they will probably point you at the small print somewhere.  I got one once in similar circumstances.  Sorry, I know this doesn't help really.

Answer 13

Your only recourse...call the court where the ticket is assigned to......tell the clerk you want to see the judge or magistrate to protest the ticket.....explain what you said above....be polite and not nasty toward any cop or the court......ask politely for the judge to dismiss the ticket or lower the fine...it can be done!!!!!

Answer 14

Take a photograph if you can and then appeal to the county council.

Answer 15

i live in Essex,and while i was listening to local radio,something came on about parking tickets ,they said that if you think you are fifty fifty in the right ,you should always appeal,they said in most cases you would win ,,,,not like if you were on double yellows,then it is a penalty fine.so make sure you appeal against the ticket ...hope this helps,,,,,by the way the were talking ,i think you have a good chance of winning ,,,good luck