Got a £!*%$@* parking ticket?
We have already lodged appeals against the new parking tickets. So if you want to appeal press the red button now!
Been towed or clamped?
Or fallen foul of the London congestion charge?
The AppealNow.com website may be able to help.
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.
AppealNow.com is here to help you.
Our website's many pages may be able help you draft your appea..
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!
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-president 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.
The Road Traffic Act 2004- The Hidden Minefields
The
Road Traffic Act 2004 came into force TODAY!! (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. Watch this space!
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.
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 Segal represented the motorist in the famous High Court case
commonly referred to as the "Moses - v- Barnet" case ( R(London Borough of Barnet Council) v Parking Adjudicator [2006] EWHC 2357(Admin); [2007] RTR 14
) which decided that millions of parking tickets issued by UK local
authorities were invalid and unenforecable. As a result, over 6 million
parking tickets worth over £300 million were invalidly issued!
Your 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
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