2 parking tickets in one day!

[goldenharvest]

DH and I met up at a local beauty spot and did a 5 mile walk and took some photos. Got back to our respective cars to collect kids and they both had parking tickets (cars not kids). The area is pretty isolated, Ladybower reservoir, and the 'car park' was literally some waste ground. No signs anywhere. We have taken photos and will contest them, but is this even legal?

So you weren’t parked in any sort of car park then?

So you parked next to a double yellow line but in the verge rather than the road?
Yes I would expect a ticket in that location

We parked on the wide grass verges near the road that had the double lines.

Hmmmmmmmm wonder what those double lines mean - oh yes, the number of rows of cars you park on the verge.

You were parked inside double yellows? Yes, that's not a car park. Not sure why you need explicit signs saying no parking tbh.

Lots of people seem to think double yellows means no parking on the road. It means no parking. End of

unbelievable you parked there

Yeah, you aren't supposed to park on the grass verges there. Expensive lesson!

😂😂 as if OP thought you could park on the grass NEXT to double yellows and that would be ok 😂😂

I got a parking ticket at Ladybower last week. Did you park on the layby just after the bridge? I always park there and have never had a ticket before. I disputed it but didn't hear back so just paid the thing in the end.

Whilst on the subject of tickets,another thing to look out for which is perhaps not so obviously a contravention is the business of momentarily stopping at a bus stop. A lot of local authorities are getting sharp at this as its a good earner for them. If you see a bus stop marked out as a big yellow rectangle with the words bus stop in the rectangle and a little yellow plate o the bus stop, do not even think of stopping there for a moment to drop off or pick someone up. If there is a noddy cam car or warden near buy,youll get a ticket in the post.. Councils are investing money now on camera spy cars and they sit there all day and film offenders doing the most innocuous things which may be ticketable under civil enforcement and which would not have crossed your mind.

@garlictwist

I got a parking ticket at Ladybower last week. Did you park on the layby just after the bridge? I always park there and have never had a ticket before. I disputed it but didn't hear back so just paid the thing in the end.

You jumped the gun if it was only last week.

Most people don't realise how much damage parking on verges can do, not just cosmetically but also to the ecology. It's a real issue at a lot of beauty spots, including the New Forest.

There's signs up on the road down to Fairholmes saying parking only permitted in designated areas. There is some free parking in a couple of car parks but the rest are clearly marked.

Tbh if you park next to double yellows it's fairly likely you'll get a ticket.

Why on earth would you park on a grass verge?

You've taken the title of Worst Parking Spot from the person I rolled my eyes at the last time I visited my local retail park. Rather than wait for a space they just bumped their eyewateringly massive SUV up onto the pavement at the end of the car park and left it there.

@garlictwist the lay-bys on that road are needed as pulling in spaces for safety reasons, you're lucky if you've not been ticketed before they're usually quite hot on it.

Ladybower may be 'pretty isolated' but it's one of the most popular destinations in the area.

Lots of people there usually means a combination of a good income earner for the local council or other landowner and/or them being pretty hot on penalising those who park in the wrong place.

Either way, you need to be really careful where you park, look out for signs and pay where necessary. It's rare that you can park for free in those sorts of places unless you get there very early and find the odd legitimate free space.

We parked on the wide grass verges near the road that had the double lines

Do that near Pen Y Fan or Snowdon and the Police will ticket you or even tow away your vehicle depending on what their scope is for that day. Illegal parking near beauty spots is a massive problem, please don't add to it.

You parked illegally. Pay the fine.

Mystery solved and well done parking warden. YABVU for parking on a verge alone.

YABVU

But you already know this

Dumb and Dumber.

Arnoldthecat - I got done for this a few weeks ago. I was trying to drop a friend off. There was no safe stopping anywhere. Horrid one way system. It was two in the morning so certainly no busses. I stopped for seconds! Seconds - and my friend jumped out. - £50 fine. And I really don't earn much - that is a lot.

BUT - I stopped, I was caught, I paid.

Hahahahaha

I know a grass verge isn't a car park. I didn't say it was, just the it was all we could see that we could park on, so thought this area was a 'car park' as in parking place. We didn't see the real car park otherwise would have parked there. Never visited before .

For the umpteenth time. If we'd seen a car park or anywhere 'normal' to park, or had visited it on a previous occasions and knew where the car parking was we would have parked and paid.

It was an overcast dreary day in November and we hardly saw a human being let alone a car park, so just assumed this reservoir was some isolated place no one visited. No idea it was Disney for walkers.

We'll pay the fines of course. FWIW our local council have suspended all parking charges everywhere. And you are allowed to travel reasonable distances to exercise and it was near DDs school so we didn't travel any great distance.

You didn't know anything about it despite it being so near you? Unusual

There's a sign literally as you turn into Ladybower saying not to park anywhere but designated spaces..

Do you really live nearby and not know it's a very popular place?