Hi ho, hi ho, it's off to court I go (maybe)

Del Lardo · 04-12-2007, 11:41

I got a parking ticket on my Elise a few weeks back when it was parked outside the front of my house from a rather overzelous (total cock) CSO.

The history goes back almost 2 years but what it comes down to is that a village councilor didn't like the fact that a young man (my friend and landlord) had a sports car (his Elise) and instructed the CSO to start ticketing cars that parked outside the front of the houses as they were on a footpath despite the fact that people had been parking there for 15+ years with no issue. This is where it gets more complicated as the council think it is a footpath and the highways agency recognise it as a road

He gave my landlord a total of 5 tickets for illegal parking all of which he appealed and they never took to court. My landlord lodged a formal complaint to the Police for harrasment and the CSO was given a bollocking.

This time he has gone for a different tactic and charged me with obstructing a footpath, I am pretty sure that I have got him on the grounds that I can prove I was not blocking a footpath (you could have easily driven a car through the gap) and I am very sure that I have got him as on the ticket he has me parked on High Street when infact the car was parked on The Causeway.

Now I have a 6 month wait to find out if I get my day in court. Has anyone been to court to fight a parking ticket?

04-12-2007, 11:41	#1
Del Lardo Absinthe Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Cambridge Posts: 2,539	Hi ho, hi ho, it's off to court I go I got a parking ticket on my Elise a few weeks back when it was parked outside the front of my house from a rather overzelous (total cock) CSO. The history goes back almost 2 years but what it comes down to is that a village councilor didn't like the fact that a young man (my friend and landlord) had a sports car (his Elise) and instructed the CSO to start ticketing cars that parked outside the front of the houses as they were on a footpath despite the fact that people had been parking there for 15+ years with no issue. This is where it gets more complicated as the council think it is a footpath and the highways agency recognise it as a road He gave my landlord a total of 5 tickets for illegal parking all of which he appealed and they never took to court. My landlord lodged a formal complaint to the Police for harrasment and the CSO was given a bollocking. This time he has gone for a different tactic and charged me with obstructing a footpath, I am pretty sure that I have got him on the grounds that I can prove I was not blocking a footpath (you could have easily driven a car through the gap) and I am very sure that I have got him as on the ticket he has me parked on High Street when infact the car was parked on The Causeway. Now I have a 6 month wait to find out if I get my day in court. Has anyone been to court to fight a parking ticket? Last edited by Del Lardo; 16-03-2008 at 11:51.