Im staying in a hotel that charges £1.50 an hour for parking!

Across the road theres parking bays can I park in these after 6:30 on Saturday signs pics below I get confused easily lol

Im staying in a hotel that charges £1.50 an hour for parking!

Across the road theres parking bays can I park in these after 6:30 on Saturday signs pics below I get confused easily lol

If I read that correctly, yes you can.

The times shown are the times in which you must "Pay and Display".

The only other question is.... does the Max stay of 4 hours rule still apply outside of the pay and display hours.... i.e would you still only be able to stay for 4 hours even though you park outside the time restrictions. As to that one I'm not entirely sure.

Got me a little confused for the same reason doubt the traffic wardens going to be about today or tomorrow but I would sleep better knowing :)

I don't see why you can't, from what I can understand the max 4 hours only applies when you have to pay...

pretty sure you can park there freely between 18:31 and 08:29

work once stuck me in a hotel where it was 7.50 a day parking

Got me a little confused for the same reason doubt the traffic wardens going to be about today or tomorrow but I would sleep better knowing :)

You'll be suprised the times that traffic wardens are out patroling! we had a few tickets on works motors at stupid times through the night!

Yes you can and with it been Sunday tmz it would be fine there all day just move by 8.30am Monday morning

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Well she's parked up and I've had far too many now to move it lol wish me luck!

Good luck.

I once got a ticket at 03:58 in the morning - I think the warden had been on the sauce, as I appealed the ticket, on the basis the parking area of the car park I was in was recently made private, and the memo hadn't gotten to the warden....

The parking restrictions are only in force between the stated times.

Outside the posted times there are no restrictions.

Tidy no ticket and £27 better off :)

Tidy no ticket and £27 better off :)

Sounds like it's time to treat yourself to a few pints ;)

I hate managed residential parking zones.

When they were under Police and Warden control it was all about keeping roads free-flowing and safe, now it's all about how much money Councils can squeeze out of motorists.

Amen to that, 30 quid a year to park on the road on which I reside...

Same where I park.

Never any spaces, over keen CEO's, and spaces during the daytime are grabbed by council contractors.

The bays are technically unenforcable though due to worn lines and faded signs but the CEO's still dish out the tickets knowing that they aren't enforceable.

The parking restrictions are only in force between the stated times.

Outside the posted times there are no restrictions.

I think that's the best way to put it. There are some incredibly confusing signs out there though. And they seem to be deliberately made so small that you either won't notice them or have to get out of the car to read them.

I think that's the best way to put it. There are some incredibly confusing signs out there though. And they seem to be deliberately made so small that you either won't notice them or have to get out of the car to read them.

Or made confusing on purpose.

All signs must comply with DOT soecifications but aren't the best design ever.

There's a case in court at the moment about the excessive charges private parking companies issue in penalties. If the guy wins it's likely we can claim refunds from the robbing bar stewards.

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I'm amazed that a hotel would charge you to park per hour... Unless of course you're renting the room per hour ;)

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My local council tried to nail me because my permit wasn't displayed properly.

Story:

On renewal of permits it was standard procedure for the council to issue an A5 piece of card with 14 days on it to allow parking until the permanent pass came through the post.

I hate cluttered dashes so removed it while driving and on returning to my parking zone I put it back but accidentally upside down.

The CEO ticketed me even though the permit was still fully visible.

I did my homework and appealed on 3 grounds,

1. The permit was displayed.

2. The bay was unenforcable due to faded signs.

3. The bay was unenforcable due to non-compliant road markings- when parking responsibility passed from county to city council control the markings for continuous bays changed insomuch that the end of the bays went from 2 lines to 1, (2 lines are only used at the end of parking zones where the bays are seperated into individual ones).

I won the appeal, the council said it was because of CEO error (the time of issue in his notebook didn't match the time on the ticket - yeh right cop out).

3 years on the bays are still unenforcable due to incorrect lines and also now they are faded almost to invisibility.

The council of course will never admit that the bays are unenforcable as they would have to reimburse every ticket issued for at least 5 years.

Moral- if you get a ticket do your homework-

Are the lines visible/correct?

Are the signs correct?

Take photos of everything and send them with your appeal.

ALWAYS APPEAL!!, Councils rarely contest appeals so you have a 80% chance of winning even if you WERE in the wrong, most of the time they never send representation to a Magistrates court even if it goes to legal enforcement for failure to pay a ticket.

NEVER pay the ticket before you appeal as by doing so you admit liability and any appeal becomes moot.

Glad your councils like that, our council are jack's donkeys when it comes to parking. I sent in an appeal because my parking ticket was stuck to the window, one day the heat was so bad the tapes glue melted, and it fell On the seat, still visible, sending pictures of everything they rejected it as it wasn't in display in the windscreen ,again I had a parking ticket when I had the astra courtesy car, ticket was On display, but had fallen to the bottom of the windscreen, because it wasn't 100 percent visible looking straight in they told me to shove it, another, i was parked next to a central traffic. Island on a quite Road, they gave me a ticket whilst I was in church, they never go down there except that day, one week later they drew a parking space where my ticket had been received. Contacted them and they told me it was still a contravention, even if it was safe and is now acceptable, so they were keeping my money...

Miserable bleeders.

If you don't get satisfaction from your council when you appeal you can ask for independent arbitration.

Moat these problems have happened at a time of great stress and I could just do without the hassle, but next time it happens I probably will

Arbitration generally kills 80- 90% of all tickets referred to them.