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Got a **!*%$@* parking ticket? Been Clamped or Towed Away? Whatever you call it the Parking Ticket, Penalty Charge Notice or PCN is increasingly being issued unfairly.
Many people believe that you cannot take on the might of a local authority to fight an unfair parking ticket, clamping or the dreaded tow-away. The facts show that this is not the case. We continue to help motorists win appeals against councils' parking tickets and have won important victories for motorists. The latest victory relates to the massive Zone F Controlled Parking Zone comprising the whole of central London. In a landmark decision the Chief Parking Adjudicator held that the single yellow lines in that Zone are unenforceable. In that case he stated "I am therefore not prepared to find that Zone F is properly signed". This has been reinforced by the latest case Barrie Segal- v - City of Westminster (PATAS Case No. 2090277347) which also comments on Controlled Parking Zones B5, B7, E and G. There has been another Segal - v- Westminster case on this issue. So if you want to appeal press the red button now!
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COUNCILS ISSUE PARKING TICKETS TO THEMSELVES - AND THEN SUE THEMSELVES !!! Read more here
The Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea lose £640,000 on towing and clamping vehicles. Unbelieveable - to find out Jump to the news item about Kensington & Chelsea
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Although Clamping on vehicles on private land is illegal in Scotland the Scottish Court Service has started clamping cars for for outstanding fines.
NEW PARKING TICKET SCAM ADDED - NOW WE HAVE 72 PARKING SCAMS!
Scam number 72 uncovered. Read all about it by clicking here.
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Been towed or clamped? Or fallen foul of the London congestion charge?
Appealnow.com may be able to help you.
Nobody likes to get a parking ticket. The feeling of dread, regret and anger when we see a parking ticket stuck on our windscreen is familiar to far too many of us. And more and more people get parking tickets each year.
The really unlucky ones find their cars clamped or towed away with nothing but the promise of a big bill to look forward to.
Many motorists don't bother to appeal their parking tickets, clamping or towing fees because they feel that to do so is:
- Time consuming
- Complicated
- Expensive
- Bureaucratic
and that they risk higher penalties if their appeal fails.
The relentless attitude of local authorities' parking enforcement makes motorists believe that it's all all about raising money - (see www.appealnow.com/news).
If you get at parking ticket click on the link to read Barrie Segal's 5 steps to help you win your appeal.
AppealNow.com is here to help you.
Now you can use the Appealnow.com one-click service to lodge your appeal at the touch of a button. 
Simply register with us and for small one-off fee we will help you challenge your parking ticket, quickly, easily and efficiently.
Our unique system costs from just £7.99 and will take you under 4 and a half minutes.
We can't guarantee that your appeal will be successful, but the odds are in your favour.
Why not book Barrie to speak at your party, lunch, dinner, office or club!
Why is it such a problem?
Local authorities are increasingly using the parking ticket 'system' to raise money. Gone are the days when parking tickets were used to keep the traffic flowing - they are now a major money spinner. And with that commercialism comes the increasing likelihood that a parking ticket is issued unfairly, incorrectly or illegally.
Barrie Segal, Appealnow.com's founder and an acknowledged authority on parking tickets in the UK, estimates that as many as "5 million parking tickets per annum could be illegal and unenforceable."
More people than ever before are lodging appeals (appeals are 30% up year-on-year in London alone) and 63% of all appeals are upheld by the parking adjudicator!
The chances are that your parking ticket can be appealed.
That's why Appealnow.com was set up!
AppealNow.com has been asked to assist ITV who are looking for people who have received Penalty Charge Notices via CCTV. If you have received one click on this link to find out more!
Why are so many parking tickets issued in error?
As local authorities have moved away from: using parking tickets as a traffic flow measure and towards a revenue generation model, their staff have been under increasing pressure to 'perform'. It is no secret that parking wardens are poorly paid and work to strict quotas.
"You pay lowest wages you get lowest quality people" Peter Guest, vice precident of the British Parking Association in evidence he gave to the Commons Transport Committee.
"There are currently seven DPE Councils outside London that clamp or remove vehicles. They are: Birmingham, Blackpool, Brighton, Bristol, Manchester, Nottingham and Oxfordshire... The fact that these Councils between them elected not to contest 28% of the appeals brought in cases involving the clamping or removal of vehicles, gives cause for concern." Chief Parking Adjudicator on Clamping and Towing away.
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The Traffic Management Act 2004- The Hidden Minefields
The Traffic Management Act 2004 came into force on 31st March 2008!! (If it was due to come into force on 1st April that would have been more appropriate because there are many hidden dangers in the supposedly "fairer" [sic] legislation.) Motorists will need to be on their guard!
The government has missed a golden opportunity to make parking enforcement fairer but has scored an own goal. The warnings that I raised about this new legislation have proved to be correct and thousands of unfair parking tickets have been issued particularly by CCTV. Motorists who want to challenge their CCTV issued penalty charges notices only get one chance to appeal to the local authority. So if you want to appeal don't delay and click on this link.
RECEIVED A "PARKING TICKET" FOR PARKING ON PRIVATE LAND? - CLICK ON THIS LINK
Click on these links to learn more about yellow lines and parking signs - Controlled Parking Zones - Car Clamping - Car Towing - Red Routes - Bus Lanes - "Key Cases" decided by the Parking Adjudicator.
AppealNow.com Crazy Parking Ticket Awards
 At Appealnow.com we are constantly on the lookout for examples of parking wardens gone mad. The rabbit that got a parking ticket is one of our favourites but the mourners at a funeral who were given tickets was an instance of the insensitive side of bureaucracy. More recently the whole country was outraged to learn that Transport for London and Wandsworth Council had issued parking tickets to the volunteers who were bravely trying to save the London whale. Thankfully those tickets have now been overturned on appeal.
Please let us know of any examples of local authority parking ticket lunacy that you come across. Like the latest crazy situation where councils issue parking tickets to their own vehicles and "sue" them selves at the Parking Adjudicator. Islington Council even asked for costs against itself!!
Don't get lumbered with a parking ticket bill through your own inaction.
It's bad enough getting a parking ticket, but paying it without at least investigating whether you have a valid appeal would be a real pity. You'd be amazed at how many tickets are issued incorrectly - Appealnow.com's creator and best selling author of "The Parking Ticket Awards: Crazy Councils, Meter Madness & Traffic Warden Hell", Barrie Segalpresented the motorist in the famous High Court case commonly referred to as the " Moses -v- Barnet " case ( R (London Borough of Barnet ) v Parking Adjudicator [2006] EWHC 2357 (Admin); [2007] RTR 14 ) which decided that millions of parking tickets (PCNs) issued by UK local authorities were invalid and unenforceable. As a result, over 6 million parking tickets worth over £300 million were invalidly issued!
Your parking ticket could easily be unfairly or illegally issued - in fact the odds suggest that you are more likely than not to have your ticket cancelled on appeal.
Appealnow.com can help you to lodge your appeal within the next five minutes at the click of a button.
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Since the website was set up more than 6 years ago I have answered thousands of parking ticket questions for the public and journalists. I am now starting to put together these questions and answers for for you.
RECEIVED A "PARKING TICKET" FOR PARKING ON PRIVATE LAND? - CLICK ON THIS LINK
HAVE YOU BEEN TOWED FROM PRIVATE LAND? - CLICK THIS LINK.
Click on the appropriate links to learn more about yellow lines and parking signs - Controlled Parking Zones - Car Clamping - Car Towing - Red Routes - Bus Lanes - "Key Cases" decided by the Parking Adjudicator, Contravention Codes Yellow Box Junctions.
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