Re Has anyone else found themselves in a similar situation? xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx well it just so happens Jean, just yesterday I experienced something similar. My car, which is parked more or less in the same place every day and the very same car since it was new, for the past 21 months in a residential neighbourhood, got ticketed for not having a parking permit, which it has!. The casing in which the permit is housed, supplied by Ealing Council, had fallen off the screen but was clearly visible from outside the vehicle and was lying face upwards, so had the warden taken any investigative measures, he/she would easily have seen it, plus I think they are supplied with machines whereby they are able to check if a vehicle has a permit. As you say, on the reverse of the ticket, it says appeal can be dealt with on-line, which is NOT the case, all that happens when you log on is be told where to write to!. Phone calls are impossible, all one gets is a series of options with NO opportunity to speak to a real live person. A suitably letter of complaint referring to several issues was handed into the Council offices in the afternoon. I am not happy with the Council's behaviour or that of their servants, be they direct or of sub-contractors. Apart from which Council employees are our servants anyway. As for your case of the parking in Bond Street being temporaily withdrawn, I would argue that should be EFFECTIVELY drawn to potential parkers' attention, which obviously it was not, as you and others had not noticed it. Claim compensation for trauma!!.
Tony Price ● 4912d