Those PATAS Appeals keep rolling in

Rolling, rolling, rolling

Those Appeal forms to PATAS keep rolling in with another 82 submitted last week. 

 

PATAS	Barnet	Londonwide
	Appeals	Appeals	%
Mon	15	259	6
Tues	17	283	6
Weds	19	246	8
Thurs	20	191	10
Fri	11	230	5
Sat	-	-
Total	82	1,209	7
PCN issued	Barnet	London	%
Year to March 13	165,569	4,283,964	4

That makes 518 in the last 5 weeks (the trend was downwards but this week is likely to see an increase and next week probably will as Mr Mustard already has 4 Barnet ones to file). If we take 2 weeks out for Xmas and Easter when people, on the whole, tend not to do their paperwork (although hundreds of people did file their tax return on Xmas Day) we have 50 weeks in the year and that would give us something like 5,200 Appeals in a year out of 165,000 PCN issued in Barnet which is 3.1%. The figure often quoted for Appeals is that only 1% are appealed but Mr Mustard makes it 1.4% for London last year.

What we can see from the number of Appeals is that the motorists of Barnet have had enough. They have had enough of dodgy parking tickets and are fighting back using the system which exists for that purpose.

So we are up to 5,200 Appeals to PATAS a year which means that the council have to contribute £200,000 to the budget of PATAS. Can you make it 8,000 a year by this time next year? That would be a 5% Appeal rate and somewhat exceptional in London.

Yours frugally

Mr Mustard