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Parking Ticket Validity Doubt
Posted on 06/05/2008
P. Klein
The legality of parking tickets issued by Leicestershire County Council
in recent months has been questioned following revelations that the Council
failed set up a proper appeals process for motorists. According to a
rushed report to next weeks Cabinet meeting the decision to establish
Leicestershire as a special parking area for parking enforcement - then
known as ‘decriminalised parking enforcement’ was made in Dec 2006, and
came in to effect in July 2007.
What the County Council failed to do was to allow motorists the right to
appeal to the National Parking Adjudication Service (NPAS), which is
intended as the mechanism for adjudicating on Notices issued in
Leicestershire. To cover up their error a decision was taken to sign up
to this process by the the Leader Councillor David Parsons without
allowing the whole process to be discussed by a properly constituted
committee. This week the Cabinet are being asked to retrospectively*
*approve these actions. Charnwood Labour Party claim that this is yet
another example of County Hall incompetance.
Charnwood Labour Party are naturally concerned that motorists may have
been issued parking tickets without the legal right t appeal, and
condemn the Tory led authority for failing to ensure that proper
safeguards were in place before starting the new ticketing regimes.
Eric Goodyer, Labours Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Charnwood
said “Illegal parking causes congestion, and distress for all road
users, including cyclists and pedestrians. I support proper and
efficient enforcement action, but it is disgraceful that LCC implemented
this new scheme without ensuring that motorists were able to dispute
parking tickets. This whole process should have been properly debated by
the committee, and not sorted out retrospectively in this hurried and
unreasonable manner”