'Campaigner claims another victory.'

Campaigner claims another victory

Parking Ticket campaigner Neil Herron today hailed another victory for the motorist.
This time Manchester City Council have been found to have been issuing illegal tickets. They have yet to change the wording on their non-compliant parking tickets in an attempt to make them legal. Oldham Council however have quietly changed theirs but what is abhorrent however, is that they are still pursuing ones they know to be unlawful.
Manchester, home of the National Parking Adjudication Service has no excuse either.
By exposing this and alerting the motorists Oldham Council will be forced to admit that they cannot pursue any outsanding illegally worded PCNs. For Manchester they cannot continue enforcing until they change their PCNs.
What is now needed is a full investigation as to why advice they were given back in May 2005 was never acted upon, and why they got it so wrong in the first place.
The big question now is what about the PCNs which motorists paid believing them to be legal?
What happens to all those motorists pursued by bailiffs?
Nationally the figure could run into billions.
Many local authorities have seen Decriminalised Parking Enforcement as a cash cow and used it to supplement their budget but to the detriment of local businesses and motorists who are relentlessly pursued. Now many local authorities are getting a bloody nose after cutting corners on their legal responsibilities.
There are no excuses for highly paid public officials failure especially in light of all the national coverage, including a half hour Trevor McDonald special on the 'date of issue' issue alone.
Any tears they have will fall on stony ground.

Neil Herron
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