Known in the trade as 'fluttering tickets'. Council should accept it provided ticket was properly issued - there's guidance on the Tribunal's website.

"If you read the story in full, there is a statement from NCP, which reads :

An NCP spokesman said: "In relation to 'wrongly placed tickets' I can advise that NCP accepts any ticket that we can see clearly. We have no policy on where or how it is displayed as long as we can see it. Indeed MP Robert Halfon has not made any comment to us of late in regards to 'wrongly placed tickets'. And I would not know to what this may refer.

I did read the article in full. Whatever the NCP bosses say the man on the ground may be on piece-work and 'neglect' the rules.

Avant is correct. I have used P&R in a lot of places, always after the peak period and a bus pass allows free travel everywhere I have used. There may be exceptions but a small fee is nothing compared to the hassle and fees involved in finding a parking space.

In relation to parking tickets being displayed. I purchased a ticket in Glasgow and stuck it on the side window. On my return I had a PCN for failure to display. The ticket had come unstuck and landed on the seat, face up in plain view, had the officer cared to look. I took a photograph, filled out an appeal form and attached the ticket, and they took the sensible view that the ticket was after all 'on display'. I suppose it depends how you interpret 'on display'. IMHO if it can be seen, even with a small amount of effort, it is 'on display'. But human nature dictates that for every reasonable person doing a job there will be an unreasonable 'jobsworth' doing it too! Wasn't there case some years ago where someone had every parking ticket he ever bought on display? Of course this made it difficult to locate the current one, but I believe he won his case because his ticket was 'on display'.

Cheers Concrete

this belongs on another thread really which I will now visit, however, having tried the Cambridge park and ride service twice, for me it's "never again". Hours and hours gone from my life that I will never get back. The park and ride car park I used is in the middle of a road system that got hopelessly jammed at rush hour anyway, somewhat defeating the purpose! If I must, I think I'll use the train. I've no idea where the station is though. Hopefully near the centre. Okay I'll leave you alone now.

Chester is the same. Sheffield too to some degree.

Cambridge train station is unusual in being on the outskirts of the city centre

And Nottingham

Most stations serving older cities would have been built on the outskirts. The London mainline termini were on the outskirts at the time of construction.

What's more unusual is where subsequent development has not led to station being in a shopping and/or commercial area.