Westminster Council top of the league in London for lost appeals 10 December 2007
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Drivers appealing against parking fines imposed by Conservative-controlled Westminster City Council have won 88 per cent of appeals over the last year, according to figures released by London Councils.
This placed Westminster at the top of the London league of lost parking appeals, with the London average at 68.4 per cent. In 43.6 per cent of cases Council parking officials who rejected drivers’ initial complaints offered no evidence when the dispute reached the Parking and Traffic Appeals Service Adjudicator.
Councillor Paul Dimoldenberg, Leader of the Labour Group said; “These figures are truly dreadful and only serve to fuel the suspicion that Westminster’s parking service is just a money-making racket with drivers increasingly seen as easy pickings. How can the Council justify losing such a massive proportion of appeals? How has the Council reached the situation where, in over 43 per cent of cases, no evidence was even offered by the Council to support the decision to impose a fine?”
“There needs to be a full inquiry so that drivers can feel confident that they are not simply emptying their wallets into the Council’s coffers for no good reason.
In April 2004 i saw a parking officer employed by the N.C.P issuing a parking ticket to the postvan in less 30 seconds when i asked why he was so fast in issuing a ticket to the postman his reply was he is doubled park and his co can afford it.As i ask him are you from Karno HIS REPLY WAS XXXX OFF TO ME AND HE WAS GOING TO CALL THE POLICE ON ME SO I TOLD HIM HE WAS UNDER ARREST AS A ILLEAGLE WORKER IN THIS COUNTRY SO HE RAN LIKE A BAT OUT HELL I REPORTED THIS TO D.H.S.S AND CONDUCTED A RAID ON THE N.C.P. AND ARRESED A LOT OF ILLEAGLE WORKERS AND FOUR YEARS I HAVE REQUISTING HAS THE COUNCIL TRACED THOSE TICKETS AND PAID BACK THE MONEY AS IT ISSUED ILLEAGLE P.C.N.