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It is very easy to fall into the trap of getting a parking ticket over the Christmas and New Year period. So here is my advice on ensuring that you don't ruin your holiday by getting a parking ticket.
This year Christmas and Boxing Day will fall on Sunday 25th
and Monday 26th December 2011.
Similarly New Year's Day, 1st January 2012 will fall on
a Sunday.
To calculate the statutory Bank Holidays, as Christmas falls
on a Sunday this year the Christmas Bank Holiday
is therefore on Monday 26th December and the Boxing Day
Bank Holiday on Tuesday 27th December!
You should be aware that if Christmas Day, Boxing Day or
New Year's Day fall on a Saturday or Sunday some councils
treat those days as normal days for parking enforcement
where single yellow lines and metered or pay and display
parking bays are involved, i.e. normal Saturday and Sunday restrictions apply.
DO NOT PARK ON DOUBLE YELLOW LINES!
Double yellow lines are always enforced 24/7 even on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year's Day.
Residents' parking bays
Similarly any restrictions applicable to residents' parking
bays and loading bays* also apply to public holidays as if
they were ordinary days. So for example this year Christmas
and New Year fall on Sundays and if a residents' bay is
restricted to residents Monday to Sunday from 8:30 am to
10:00 pm, that restriction would apply on those days.
Loading bays
Never park in a loading bay unless permitted to do so - i.e. you are loading or unloading and are using a vehicle permitted to do so.
Bus Lanes
Additionally Bus Lane enforcement treats all bank holidays
and public holidays as ordinary days so if there is a bus
lane restriction on Sundays ( i.e Christmas 2011 and New Years's Day 2012) this will still apply on Christmas and New Year.
Yellow Box Junctions
Yellow Box are always enforced 24/7 and that includes public holidays.
NEVER PARK AT AN OUT OF ORDER METER!!
Check with the local authority
My advice is to check with the local authority regarding
their parking enforcement on Sunday 25th December 2011
and Sunday 1st January 2012 for single yellow lines and
metered or pay and display parking bays. Increasingly local authorities are putting this information on their websites
but there have been cases where the website said that there
was no enforcement this was then changed and teams of civil enforcement officers sent out to ticket motorists who relied
on the original webpage.
If you do use a council's webpage to get the information
above, do copy the webpage by using your browser's
"Save Page As" facility. I recommend saving the page as an
HTML file.
If in doubt do not park there!
If you have any doubt as to whether to park isit is safest not to!
Have a great parking ticket free holiday!
Barrie Segal, founder of Appealnow.com
Reversing the charges™
For more Parking ticket information click on the links below:
Yellow lines and parking signs - Controlled Parking Zones - Car Clamping - Car Towing - Red Routes - Bus Lanes - "Key" Parking Adjudicator cases
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