I don’t pay for parking in the car parks in my local town as (at the moment at least!) the traffic warden only visits our town twice a month. Once a month on the same day and once a month on a possibly random day (there may be a pattern but I haven’t worked it out yet). So I pay for one parking fine a month at £25 if I pay immediately, which I do. If I were to buy a ticket daily it would cost around £120 per month or an annual ticket would be £60 per month. I live in a tourist area though and can’t guarantee a space from about June-September so it still doesn’t really pay for itself.
The fact I don’t pay for parking tickets drives dh mad. He’s convinced it’s affecting my credit rating despite me showing him lots of evidence that it only does if I don’t pay on time. He also thinks the council automatically apply to the DVLA to get my details once a ticket is issued and this will get flagged up by them at some point. I can’t find any indication anywhere that they either do or don’t do this but I’d assume they only do this if I don’t pay so they need to chase it up. But even if they do it’s not actually an offence so it’s not an issue.
Unless I’m missing something and I’m about to lose my license or credit rating. Has anyone got any idea if there’s any truth in what dh is saying? I don’t park in disabled bays or illegally at all, I just don’t buy a ticket in the council car park.
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NameyMcNameChange1 · 25/02/2019 21:41
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