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Good Morning all,

A friend of mine has a numbered residential parking space allocated in their private apartment block car-park, however when they came to park after work one evening, there was another vehicle parked in their space. My friend then proceeded to park in a visitors parking space until they saw that the other vehicle had moved (they didn’t know who the vehicle belonged to, and I believe she asked her neighbours). When they went to move their car from the visitors parking space, their car had been ticketed… The evidential photos from the PCN clearly show a car parked in their registered bay. The private residential car park does not issue permits for cars, so the ticketing warden would be unable to know that the car parked in my friends bay was incorrectly parked as they don't know which car is registered to which apartment… They have an app based payment system for visitor parking… Would she have a case for appeal or is it just suck it up and pay? I'll post the PCN and photos later when I have them... I've told them not to make any contact with the company just yet till advice is sought...

https://www.imagebam.com/view/ME1AWFI7 - PCN Front
https://www.imagebam.com/view/ME1AWFI8 - PCN Rear
https://www.imagebam.com/view/ME1AWFQT - Cropped picture of vehicle showing another vehicle in owners bay

out of interest then if someone did park in your space what can you do about it?

Is this a warden enforcement or just someone from the flats?

Exactly, speaking to my friend, there's no way of knowing if a car is parked in a bay where it shouldn't be other than the Visitor parking bays which are controlled by an app.

It's warden enforcement