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| Hadley Green, EN5 |
One of the supposed benefits of PayByPhone is that if you can see the sign from the comfort of your car then you don't need to leave it. Regular users of the system who stop at the same location quite often only need to check that the sign looks like the one that was there last time they parked and then make their payment.
Should there be a 2 hour free period, it should be on the face of this sign which is on Hadley Green in Chipping Barnet, just past the pond on the right as you head north.
There is a free 2 hour parking period at this location (and unlimited free parking after 2.30pm in the week until 8 the next morning but not on a Saturday) but you would only know if you got out of your car and walked around the other side of the post and found this second sign, which is set rather too high for easy reading:
So where shall we start?
The council have failed to properly sign the rules so people have paid and been given a PCN in error. They should all be automatically refunded.
Many people will have paid for parking that should have been free. You can ask for a refund of all up to 2 hour payments as they have been paid under mistake, going back to when the free 2 hour period started in December 2013.
A traffic warden issued a PCN there on 11 August 14 to a lady who knew the rules and stayed for less than 2 hours. Her initial representations have been rejected. Mr Mustard is about to take over and then they will be accepted, he thinks and if they aren't the council will waste a £40 fee going to PATAS where they will lose.
Don't the Notice Processing Officers who rejected the representations know there is 2 hours free at this location either?
If traffic wardens had regular beats they would get to know the area and the rules better. Mind you it would help if the signs which they have to enforce were correct.
Anyone would think that the council didn't want you to take advantage of the free parking.
Yours frugally
Mr Mustard
Update 15:20
Mr Mustard now has a copy of the thoroughly amateur and non-compliant sign that the council did put up last year and which has gone west.
Update 15:20
Mr Mustard now has a copy of the thoroughly amateur and non-compliant sign that the council did put up last year and which has gone west.
What an absolute shower Barnet Council are. A real load of muppets. However as shame has been abolished in the UK no doubt they will carry on in the same old way. Until officers go to jail for malfeasance, this sort of thing will continue. Let the tumbrils roll ! I have suitable knitting ready !!
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