Parking Tickets

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I hope that you read this if you have received a parking ticket.

f you are picking up or dropping off one of your children you are allowed park to do so whether there is a single or double yellow line.

If because of their age you need to escort or take your child into their school or classroom that is also allowed although councils often claim claim that you are not allowed to do so. In my view you can also wait a sufficient
time to ensure that your child is settled.

Picking up your child.
If because of their age you need to escort or take your child from their school or classroom that is also allowed.

You are not allowed park on a zig zag next to a crossing nor on yellow zig zags outside schools. Also you cannot park in a loading bay or taxi rank.

Councils often ticket mothers picking up or dropping off their children at schools when the are legally parked. There seems to be a thought that because they are so often busy with their children they will just pay up.

Do remember that even if you have breached the parking rules and got a parking ticket, if there is a good reason you can and should write to the council and explain the circumstances and ask them to cancel the parking ticket. They are legally obliged to consider such a requisites although they may not agree to do so.

My advice is to fight that parking ticket if it is issued unfairly and take the case all the way to the parking adjudicator.

"Do remember that even if you have breached the parking rules and got a parking ticket, if there is a good reason you can and should write to the council and explain the circumstances and ask them to cancel the parking ticket. They are legally obliged to consider such a requisites although they may not agree to do so".

Marvellous idea, park illegally then force the council to waste public money in defending itself .

I am curious about the claim that "If you are picking up or dropping off one of your children you are allowed park to do so whether there is a single or double yellow line."

Why does/should the presence of child/ren make any difference to your illegal, and possibly dangerous parking?

So your need to drop your child(ren) off supercedes the need for the area round the school to be safe for all the other children? Cars parked on yellow lines make it difficult for other children to cross the road around the school safely, at a very busy time of the morning/afternoon.

Park legally and walk a bit further - it won't kill you or your (able-bodied) children.

If you are picking up or dropping off, then you are waiting not parked, and that makes a difference - although as responsible people we should always be aware of the safety of other people's children not just the convenience of our own, and choose a safe place to wait.

If you have to park to accompany your children into school, then you need to park somewhere safe - and this will almost certainly not be on a double yellow line, or even a single yellow line during busy periods.

You definitely don't have a right to dump your car on a double yellow line in order to go into the school and wait till your child is "settled"!

The prime concern when taking children to or picking them up from school should always be their safety and the safety of other children. I continually here of parents who are still getting parking tickets when doing that.