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Live cases legal advice => Civil penalty charge notices (Councils, TFL and so on) => Topic started by: fernie on June 05, 2025, 09:52:29 pm

Title: Re: Edinburgh, code 24 not parked correctly in markings, Hillside crescent permit parking.
Post by: Incandescent on June 06, 2025, 12:05:08 pm

OK, so both bays are for permit holders, but one also allows paid-for parking.

I suggest you write in to state you are a permit holder and can therefore park in both bays, but on the day in question when you returned and tried to park, the other parked cars meant you could only park as found by the CEO. Apologise for overlapping the two bays, but state that you will in future, ensure you are in either one or the other. Whether Edinburgh council pay any attention to permit holder problems is another matter, of course. I don't think you'd win this at the adjudicators.

Title: Re: Edinburgh, code 24 not parked correctly in markings, Hillside crescent permit parking.
Post by: fernie on June 06, 2025, 07:58:05 am

Thanks for your reply and advice.

Here are photos of the two signs. They're located about 20metres apart. So silly I just didn't realise I was on the boundary

https://imgur.com/a/OFhl4Qx

Title: Re: Edinburgh, code 24 not parked correctly in markings, Hillside crescent permit parking.
Post by: Incandescent on June 06, 2025, 12:14:59 am

GSV is too out-of-date to be of much use here, (2021). The bay markings you straddled with your car indicate a boundary between two bays with different parking restrictions. Yet you say they are the same. If you can get a photo of the sign for each bay it would help us, but the fact is you were parked out of a bay.

Yes, I know, this is just venal money-grubbing, but may well explain why a certain political party is getting a lot of votes now !

Title: Edinburgh, code 24 not parked correctly in markings, Hillside crescent permit parking.
Post by: fernie on June 05, 2025, 09:52:29 pm

Hello

I am a permit holder (zone n1) and parked near my home in the permit holder bays on hillside crescent on the evening of 3rd June.

I returned to my car on 5th June to find I'd been issued a ticket for not parking correctly in the markings.

When I parked, the road was busy with parked cars and I did not realise that there were road markings to show two separate parking areas. Both bays are N1 zone and so I am allowed to park in both, can I appeal this ticket?


Images here: https://imgur.com/a/y5t8bOH
(https://imgur.com/a/y5t8bOH)


Location: https://maps.app.goo.gl/MWtT4kqzJxuZVtC28 

Thank you