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I am leaving this comment as my working commitments make it impossible for me to communicate during your normal office hours.
I received a parking fine while parked in Renfield Street. I would like to make an informal challenge of this and point out there were no signs in place showing the area as a pay and display zone (I specifically checked this prior to leaving my vehicle as I was not trying to evade paying for parking, there was a restrictive sign showing for the yellow line area behind the bay I parked in, but no permissive or restrictive signs for the bay itself.) and no meters. The notice number is GN47486423 left on the 10th December at 16:30(I had barely crossed the street) by parking attendant PA115.
The description of my car is also wrong.
If I was aware of the pay and display zone I would obviously have paid to park there, I do not have any objections to parking charges, however since I do not consider this to be my fault I will not pay any fine. Please forward me details of parking charges for the area and I will gladly pay those.(I was parked there for almost four hours) If you do not consider this a fair course of action, please feel free to issue a Notice to Owner Form to me so that I may make formal representations including witness statements.
Yours sincerely.
W thekid.

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I believe the order to be invalid on the following grounds…
1) Notices of parking restrictions were not clearly displayed. (There was scaffolding in the area, perhaps this was covering any notices)2) The description of the vehicle on the parking slip does not match my vehicle.3) The attendant did not give fair time to return with parking voucher/pay and display voucher or whatever is used at this location.
I would therefore ask the Council that the above points be taken into account during their considerations of representations.Please also make note of my new address above as I have recently moved, this is also the reason for the seemingly late response. I didn’t actually receive this notice to owner until January 28th when I was in Kilwinning for a short visit.
Yours sincerely

William thekid

I sent that off, hoping for some reaction this time instead of the ritual ignorance I had previously enjoyed....

• March 3rd 2006
• Days since the incident - 83
• FROM - GCC
• TO - thekid
• I received this letter from them. They seem to be investigating this, but I have some problems....

1. They already issued a Notice to Owner, so this would lead me to believe they are responding to my original email(13th December)
2. According to http://www.ticketbusters.co.uk/ they have 56 days from the original informal challenge to respond, this letter is dated 75 days from that challenge.
3. All councils have access to the DVLAs last log so why would they need me to send in my tax and MOT, perhaps they were trying to do me for those instead(which they couldn't as everything was in place.)
4. Also I am pretty sure that only the vehicle inspectorate or the old bill can require production of documents.

Normally I would have paid the fine straight off, but this is becoming a big issue for me now, there is mo way I am sending money to an organisation who don't seem to have a grasp on proper proceedings. Anyhow at this point I was leaving for Ireland for two weeks so couldn't respond to this letter(see how GCC enjoy ignorance for once).

The most recent comms are this, you wont believe it.....

ONLY ANOTHER NOTICE TO OWNER!!!!

• April 5th 2006
• Days since the incident - 116
• FROM - GCC
• TO - thekid
• I am going to reply to this notice to owner with the exact same letter I sent before, I wonder if I can draw this out to a year....

Watch this space.....