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AIBU?

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Got my neighbours parking tickets

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Valmur · 04/04/2016 09:47

My OH and I are moving today. The removers organised to have the residents parking bays in front of our new house suspended to make delivery easier. The council put a board over the nearest residents parking sign advertising the suspension.
This morning several of my new neighbours have parked in the suspended bays and got tickets. One guy has come round and complained.
My OH thinks we should reimburse them all. AIBU to think it's their fault not ours and that we should not have to pay?

OP posts:

littleducks · 04/04/2016 10:44

It's not a good start with new neighbours though is it?

Narp · 04/04/2016 10:49

littleducks.

It isn't a great start, but it's not the end of the world.

The neighbour who complained decided it wasn't a good start when they decided to complain - if this happened to me I'd be mildly irritated , but then I'd realise it was my own fault for not being more observant. People who expect others to be responsible for their own bad luck aren't worth worrying about. IMO

I suspect if it wasn't that, it would be something else in due course

littleducks · 04/04/2016 11:02

But is not one neighbour though it's several

LizzieMacQueen · 04/04/2016 11:06

Did the removers (thereby you) pay the council a fee for this suspension?

If you did then I would get the residents to take up the case against the council.

Original poster

Valmur · 04/04/2016 11:51

Yes. I have been billed for the parking suspension.

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pudcat · 04/04/2016 12:27

It is the new house, the OP wouldn't have been there to knock on doors when the notice went up. Do not pay.

Narp · 04/04/2016 12:27

littleduck

What I meant is, one guy complained to the op. The others just got on with it, as I would have.

AndNowItsSeven · 04/04/2016 12:31

It would have been considerate if you had put notes through your neighbours doors to warn them in advance.

LizzieMacQueen · 04/04/2016 12:41

I would let your neighbours know that you paid the council for the service and therefore the council are at fault if there was inadequate signage.

A nicely worded apology that makes the above clear would be the way forward (along with an invite to your house warming )

MackerelOfFact · 04/04/2016 12:49

When residents' parking bays in my area have been suspended, the council have always leafleted local houses as part of the process. Those yellow signs usually go up at least 5 days in advance as well.

If the council didn't do this - or they did and the residents took no notice - I'd get the neighbours to take it up with the council.

It's really not on for them to expect payment from you for their parking fines. I'd perhaps reimburse 1/365th of the cost of their annual parking permits as a gesture of goodwill (so about 30p where I live!) since they couldn't access resident's parking for a day - but not the fine.

If anything, you paid for the parking suspension and they parked there anyway so I'd be chasing them for the amount you paid to reserve parking you couldn't use because they parked there.

GasLightShining · 04/04/2016 13:09

If anything, you paid for the parking suspension and they parked there anyway so I'd be chasing them for the amount you paid to reserve parking you couldn't use because they parked there.

My thoughts exactly

AdriftOnMemoryBliss · 04/04/2016 13:52

If anything, you paid for the parking suspension and they parked there anyway so I'd be chasing them for the amount you paid to reserve parking you couldn't use because they parked there.

This, tell them you'll pay their fine if they'll reimburse you for the cost of the suspension that your movers couldn't use because they can't read a signpost!

LeanneBattersby · 04/04/2016 14:49

If the signage was not clear it is the fault of the authority that displayed the signage. If they appeal the tickets with evidence of the crappy signage, they may get their fines waived.

Nonotmenori · 04/04/2016 14:56

I was done once for this. Living in zone 1 and car would be parked up for days on end. Came home to find a ticket on three cars including mine. Spoke to the council and they're supposed to give I believe at least a months notice before the actual date so we were all let off our fines as this time frame wasn't given by the council and only out up two days beforehand. However if they had the notice up for the correct amount of time it is your new neighbours problem. Either ways not your problem.

Jojoriley · 04/04/2016 18:48

Guess that would be a very nice gesture but completely unnecessary. I live in res park area and bays are always being suspended- I've never heard of anyone reimbursing- it's just the way it is.

gobbin · 04/04/2016 20:23

It would have been considerate if you had put notes through your neighbours doors to warn them in advance

What if OP was moving many miles away? Sounds like everybody in this chain of events did their bit apart from the dozy buggers who assumed nothing had changed in their little world.

Collaborate · 04/04/2016 20:32

Yeah! Maybe you should have covered the signs saying parking suspended, or something.

...oh wait...

Littleallovertheshop · 04/04/2016 21:52

Not your problem, don't pay!

edwinbear · 04/04/2016 22:06

I don't think you should pay, but if the signs went up late they should take it up with the council. The bay outside my house has been suspended for 3 weeks allegedly from 1st April (Friday) but the signs only went up on Saturday (2nd). I would have been hopping up and down like the Easter Bunny on hot coals if I'd been given a ticket.

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