For anyone fighting an unfair, unjustified or illegal PCN from Brighton & Hove City Council’s illustrious parking department, you may be interested to know that my appeal with the Parking Tribunal (now properly named the Traffic Penalty Tribunal) won by default because the Council didn’t even bother to present any evidence to the Tribunal.
Mine was a case of being accused of parking in a loading bay at 06:30 in the morning whilst not loading, whereas in fact I was loading – see also the original posts Testing the Parking Tribunal and Brighton & Hove Parking – criminal racket in disguise
1st January 2012 at 10:29 pm
THE GREAT COUNCIL PARKING FINE SCAM “GOING DE-CRIM ”
In a London Evening Standard Article , 2 December 2011 , “ Westminster’s parking plan will stifle West End culture ” , Lord Tony Hall , CEO Royal Opera House , asks : ” The only question remaining is : Why isn’t Westminster listening ? ” . Based upon considerable research , might I suggest that the answer is most likely to be as follows :-
They are not listening because they are attempting a “ cover-up ” of a country-wide Council scam .
This has all the symptoms of a ” cover-up ” to a scam , and it is the “ symptoms ” which are being reported .
Since Council’s have taken over the collection of parking fines from the Police , evidence exists of many hundreds of Small Businesses being damaged Country wide .
Since the introduction of Civil Parking Enforcement , Council’s Parking Policies have been aimed at making excessive use of Parking Restrictions – especially Single & Double Yellow lines .
Councils are using these simply to increase Council Revenue , rather than such Parking Restrictions being used for the proper purposes for which Parliament intended , being in the main for avoiding danger & easing congestion .
In their excessive zeal for extra Revenue Councils are often by-passing the prescribed Statutory Procedures in the process , which in other circumstances might be classed as “ money laundering ” .
Geoffrey Stansfield , Independent Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers , Newcastle upon Tyne
2nd January 2012 at 4:45 pm
RE THE GREAT COUNCIL PARKING FINE SCAM ” GOING DE-CRIM”
Might I also add something to the above ?
As a result Councils have simply stolen the streets and are busy renting these back to the Electorate from whom they have been stolen ; And recklessly killing Businesses in the process , without conscience or remorse ; And charging ever increasing rents for the streets which they have hi-jacked ; And causing no end of stress to the Public who simply cannot go about their daily lives because City access is being constricted by Council greed ; Especially damaging across a whole range of areas , from Village Shops to London’s West End .
This is unacceptable : It is alleged that this wide-spread practice may even be a form of “money laundering ” ; It is terrible now ; It can and will only get worse ; It must be remedied at the highest level possible ; Many have publicly railed against the symptoms ; Might the above be one of the main roots of causation perhaps ?