New scam by Chelmsford council

[Web Admin]

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Hi

Thought you'd like to know about a nasty technique in Chelmsford. I got a PCNt for not displaying a parking ticket - in fact I have a permit but that's another story (and I'm appealing).

Instead of putting the PCN into a plastic envelope and fixing to the windscreen or under the wiper blade, the CEO tucked it down the space between the windscreen and bonnet (Ford Kuga, gap is a bout 2"). I found it 3 weeks later when filling the water windscreen wash.

This delay means I'm outside their 14 day discount period.

I've appealled the PCN as I have a permit, and also asked Chelmsford City Council to extend the discount period as the PCN was effectively hidden.

Thoughtyou might want to alert your members that not all PCNs are in a clear, visable position

Regards

xxxxxxx

[dangerous beanz]

Just a thought, don't CEOs take photos of the ticket on the windscreen as part of their evidence package?

[Ewan Hoosami]

Ideally they should if the enforcement was carried out honestly. We had a wedding photographer came on here a while back where she had footway parked in a place where it is allowed but the weasel was happily booking cars anyway. She went out when he hadn't even begun falsifying evidence concerning her car but had taken one single photograph of it. He said if she moved she would be OK, which she did, and then she received a 'phantom ticket.' The council rejected her representations, surprise surprise and their 'evidence' was the one single shot of the car with no ticket visible.

There have also been numerous cases where the weasel has affixed a PCN envelope to the windscreen, taken a photo and then promptly removed it so as to ambush the driver a month later. Bless their little cotton socks.