Hello people,
I recently got a PCN from my local council while parked outside my house - Usually I'm at work at the times of enforcement and when I'm not, my partner will put a vistor permit. On the occasion, my partner and I were in A&E for a migraine that had lasted 7 days at that point and we were there overnight, leading me to forget to put the permit on having gone to bed about an hour before the times of enforcemnt started. I explained all this to the council and they outright rejeceted the appeal - not even a we understand your cirmcumstances and are sorry that you've been through this. A very shitty worded you've broke the rules, pay up.
This lead me to pay particular attention to the conduct of the councils CEOs over the past few months. Recently, I have seen an ANPR enabled car with an extened camera parked in a loading bay on many occasion, which as a delivery driver, is a pistake. I assume it is to catch people in a the yellow box ahead of the loading bay.
I'm not quite sure how can they justify issuing fines while themself being in contravention. I have made a FOI to the council asking if they allow this sort of behaviour and I'm hoping that they do not. My next course of action would be to take photographs of the loading bay signage, the car parked in contravention and the CEO's identifying number and complain to the company and my local MP.
Does anyone have any further ideas of how to escalate this or any knowlegde of if CEO's are allowed to behave in such a way?
