The Lancashire Evening Telegraph reports on the latest Blackburn blunder, this time involving 'failure to display.'Everyone in Blackburn in future who gets a Parking Ticket for a similar mistake simply print off the article and ask for the council to apply discretion.
Tax disc gaffe on mayor's limo
By Nafeesa Shan
PARKING protesters have accused council bosses of double standards after they forgot to replace the tax disc on the mayor's limousine.The tax disc on the black BMW expired on January 31 and was replaced for 12 days until the Lancashire Telegraph informed Blackburn with Darwen Council that it had expired.The car which has a registration CB1, used on official visits by the Mayor of Blackburn with Darwen Coun Maureen McGarvey, was driven on at least 11 occasions without displaying the correct disc.
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Securicor Van parked too close to the bank ... so he got a parking ticket
Now there are sometimes moments where you just shake your head and think ... what planet?Is there a subtle conspiracy theory at work here ... playing for the long game? Stay with me on this one.
Persecute cash vans by relentlessly ticketing them for months on end so that their eventual frustration (and increasing fines) means that they park a distance from the bank ( delivery ceases to be commercially viable unless they avoid tickets at all costs) ... enter the armed robber gangs from the 80's now released from chokey to pick off the guards and the money as they walk from a loading bay or pay and display parking space. Easy pickins Guv.
This one is in Blackburn ... a Securicor van gets a ticket for being parked on double yellows too close to the bank. It is claimed that there was a loading bay further down the street.
No common sense ... the law is the law and it was claimed they were causing an obstruction. Well, for one it should be the Police who ticket for an obstruction, not a Parking Attendant as obstruction of the highway is a criminal matter not covered by decriminalised parking.
Secondly, carrying tens of thousands of pounds of cash from a loading bay a distance away from the bank increases the potential for an armed robbery.
But, the council claim the law is the law.
I am sure that there would not be one motorist in the country who would object to the exercising of discretion in such circumstances ... and especially if the consequence of forcing Securicor's guards to walk 50 yards was a massive increase in the potential for an armed robbery ... away from the bank's CCTV.
But a little reminder of the law. The council, as mentioned, is Blackburn ... who ticketed my car in this illegal bay abutted by triple yellow lines, also illegal.
This is the council who has yet to respond to the Freedom of information request as to how many people have been illegally fined at this location.
This is the council who has yet to confirm as to whether the restriction at this location has been corrected to comply with the law, and whether they have suspended ticketing here.
This is the council who claimed that my ticket was cancelled because 'the Parking Attendant got the registration number wrong.'
It should not have been a problem as I was there when he wrote it out ... all he had to do was ask.
I have said that Parking Appeals will handle Securicor's ticket if need be and in doing so highlight the flaws in Blackburn's Penalty Charge Notice, but in the meantime, if anyone has a Blackburn PCN just drop us an e-mail at enquiries@parkingappeals.co.uk and we will tell you what is wrong with it.
It's about time the playing field was levelled a little.
Read the full story in the Lancashire Evening Telegraph here
This one is in Blackburn ... a Securicor van gets a ticket for being parked on double yellows too close to the bank. It is claimed that there was a loading bay further down the street.
No common sense ... the law is the law and it was claimed they were causing an obstruction. Well, for one it should be the Police who ticket for an obstruction, not a Parking Attendant as obstruction of the highway is a criminal matter not covered by decriminalised parking.
Secondly, carrying tens of thousands of pounds of cash from a loading bay a distance away from the bank increases the potential for an armed robbery.
But, the council claim the law is the law.
I am sure that there would not be one motorist in the country who would object to the exercising of discretion in such circumstances ... and especially if the consequence of forcing Securicor's guards to walk 50 yards was a massive increase in the potential for an armed robbery ... away from the bank's CCTV.
But a little reminder of the law. The council, as mentioned, is Blackburn ... who ticketed my car in this illegal bay abutted by triple yellow lines, also illegal.This is the council who has yet to respond to the Freedom of information request as to how many people have been illegally fined at this location.
This is the council who has yet to confirm as to whether the restriction at this location has been corrected to comply with the law, and whether they have suspended ticketing here.
This is the council who claimed that my ticket was cancelled because 'the Parking Attendant got the registration number wrong.'
It should not have been a problem as I was there when he wrote it out ... all he had to do was ask.
I have said that Parking Appeals will handle Securicor's ticket if need be and in doing so highlight the flaws in Blackburn's Penalty Charge Notice, but in the meantime, if anyone has a Blackburn PCN just drop us an e-mail at enquiries@parkingappeals.co.uk and we will tell you what is wrong with it.
It's about time the playing field was levelled a little.
Read the full story in the Lancashire Evening Telegraph here
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