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Most recently answered parking questions

I'm just dropping you a line to let you know that I have put up a webpage on my website to help people understand what to do if they get a so called "Parking Ticket" for parking on private land. The URL...

Separate featurette:

On July 25 2009, you answered a letter by P.M. of Kineton who had received a "penalty" for overstaying while parking to eat at McDonalds. You advised the person to pay the "penalty" and then sue. I disagree...

Kerbing enthusiasm

I would like some advice as to if there are recognised standards that apply to the height and shape of kerb stones. I recently drove along the beach car park and caravan park access road in the north...

Appealing behaviour

Councils either make it too time consuming and difficult to appeal a parking ticket, so that it is easier just to pay up, or frighten you into thinking the penalty will get much larger if you don't pay....

Taking the bully by the horns

I thought you might be interested in my David v Goliath victory. Last January I inadvertently overstayed my welcome at the Forster Square Retail Park, Bradford, a complex of big-name retail stores, managed...

Con fine ment

Two weeks ago my husband was issued with a parking ticket in a carpark in Ipswich, Suffolk while visiting our son on father's day. This was on a Sunday when the car park is free, but it was given because...

Ticket machination

Having lived and worked in Croydon for 6 years now the parking enforcement seems to be getting worse. I am already appealing against an invalid parking enforcement notice which stated I was parked in a...

Faster food

I am a furious with McDonalds for having been sent a notice of a £50 parking charge by MET Parking Services for being on a McDonald’s restaurant site near Heathrow for 76 minutes (free stay is apparently...

Council attacks

You may not remember but last year I wrote to you concerning a PCN from Lambeth Parking concerning an alleged Moving Traffic Offence in Lambeth of Driving in a Bus Lane on January 2nd 2008. The Photograph...

All to tether now

I have recently fallen foul of new parking restrictions and had my vehicle removed by a local clamping company. The cost for return of my vehicle was £540. The excessive penalty, the underhand way the...