I’d appreciate any thoughts on this one as I’m ready to appeal the response to my appeal but don’t want to waste my time.
My daughter parked our other EV (e208) in a local car park at 18:30 and the only available spaces were for electric cars so she used one. As the car park only requires payment up to 17:30 she didn’t need a parking ticket.
She didn’t have time (or experience) to plug-in the car and so left it there not charging. I wasn’t impressed with that - and told her so - as I don’t think you should use a charging space if you’re not using the charge point itself. I’m amazed how often I see this though.
She came back to find the parking ticket with the contravention being “71 - Parked in an electric vehicles’ charging place during restricted hours without charging”.
I appealed on the basis that it wasn’t during restricted hours but they’ve responded to say “The enforcement of the bay is not restricted to the hours of control for the car park”.
As there are no signs in the car park to say that the rules are different for those spaces (in the middle of the car park) I feel like taking it further. As said, I don’t agree she should have taken that space but I believe there should be a sign saying you can only use those spaces if you’re charging and/or a sign saying that restriction on those spaces are 24/7.
I’d appreciate anyone else’s experience or thoughts.
My daughter parked our other EV (e208) in a local car park at 18:30 and the only available spaces were for electric cars so she used one. As the car park only requires payment up to 17:30 she didn’t need a parking ticket.
She didn’t have time (or experience) to plug-in the car and so left it there not charging. I wasn’t impressed with that - and told her so - as I don’t think you should use a charging space if you’re not using the charge point itself. I’m amazed how often I see this though.
She came back to find the parking ticket with the contravention being “71 - Parked in an electric vehicles’ charging place during restricted hours without charging”.
I appealed on the basis that it wasn’t during restricted hours but they’ve responded to say “The enforcement of the bay is not restricted to the hours of control for the car park”.
As there are no signs in the car park to say that the rules are different for those spaces (in the middle of the car park) I feel like taking it further. As said, I don’t agree she should have taken that space but I believe there should be a sign saying you can only use those spaces if you’re charging and/or a sign saying that restriction on those spaces are 24/7.
I’d appreciate anyone else’s experience or thoughts.