Note also the statement 'no voucher was displayed in the windscreen'. That is the requirement but the helpful workman who received the PCN whilst working for a resident, placed the voucher in the side window, on the pavement side, so that it was much easier for the traffic warden to read & has done it like this for 30 years. Being helpful means Barnet Council want £110 from you.
Here is the visitor voucher, in close up. The scratched items were correct.
Anyone think that revenue raising is the name of the game?
Anyone got any idea why Barnet's parking 'service' scores so lowly in resident perception surveys? That isn't going to change whilst ludicrously petty PCNs like this one keep being issued.
Mr Mustard will fight this to the bitter end which will cost the council a £30 tribunal fee. He has a card or two up his sleeve.
Yours frugally
Mr Mustard
Surely the only way to put a stop to this is for compensation to be paid to the honest parker (say £110, discounted to £55 if paid within fourteen days).
ReplyDeleteAt the moment, it's worth the gamble for Barnet Council and their minions. Some people will pay up for an easy life - not enough people will waste their time pursuing to the bitter end because they could probably earn more than £55 in the time it would take, the courts probably won't give out any meaningful expenses, so the honest parker will be out of pocket one way or the other. Might as well pay the £55 and get on with more interesting things.
Yes, that is the real problem, no penalties on the councils for poor admin on parking, (here absolutely shocking). We need a regulator with powers to bar councils from keeping their ill-gotten gains, it can't come soon enough.
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