Parking Tickets
 

I think this may have been discussed here somewhere before......

I have just been hit with a £100 (£50 if I pay up fast) parking ticket. This was for parking in a Restricted Stret During Prescribed Hours. Basically a Residents Parking area without a residents parking permit. The bike was at the and of a parking bay, in a corner almost and certainly not preventing any car from parking in the bay. I've never been bothered by such tickets in the past. Is it worth enquiring/fighting this? Or should I just stump up. There was no nearby bike parking bay to use, and I thought it was better than being on the footpath.

Wandsworth Council if anyone has experience with them.

Any thoughts appreciated.

Do you have a permit ??? If not you'll need to pay up .. bikes are not excempt from Permit Holder restrictions .. sorry ..

Don't have any experience of Wandsworth, but those nice chaps (;)) in LB of Richmond upon Thames let you park in residents bays as long as you don't prevent others from using the bay for parking a car. (I wonder how long it'll be before the money grabbing so-and-so's work out that other boroughs are charging for two wheeled vehicles and follow suit ??).

Ho hum. I must admit it does frustrate me that there is no consistency across the boroughs in London - don't mention Westminster where you can't do anything without getting stung for it (that includes breathing !!) ;)