Continuous contravention - Wandsworth

Here is a location where parking at an angle is allowed:

Wandsworth Council don't really understand road markings as if they did they wouldn't put a yellow box in front of the garages when they are only allowed at junctions and fire or ambulance stations etc., not on housing estates.

An unwell driver made a mistake and parked on the brick paved area in the foreground on the right and collected 3 PCNs in five days. They paid the first one and challenged the other two. Wandsworth Council decided to cancel the PCN issued on day 4 as although they were both correctly issued they had generously decided to treat them as one episode of parking on this occasion. So kind but hogwash. They refused to cancel PCN 3 which was inconsistent.

Mr Mustard took over. He pointed out that the PCN the council had agreed to cancel (the second PCN in time) still showed a balance on the council system. That was quietly corrected after a while.

This is what Mr Mustard wrote about the final PCN (you don't need to write reams).

It took 2 weeks but Wandsworth knew when they were beaten but again said that they had decided to treat the PCNs as one contravention. There isn't a choice, there either is one contravention or there isn't, it is a fact based question.

Here is an extract from the tribunal decision referred to:

Clearly, the second and third PCNs were not appropriate. Traffic wardens issued PCNs when they knew, or ought to have known, that they were not valid.

The back office pretend to be kind but they are spouting hogwash in order to try and play the situation to their advantage. They need to stop.

You just can't trust the parking departments of many councils.

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