A FORMER Banbury resident who suffers from a
disability which leaves her in constant pain, has questioned the fairness of the
appeals system against parking fines in the Cherwell district after she was
threatened with court action.
Michelle Andrews who suffers from Fibromyalgia and lives in Northampton, says she can accept she was fined in November last year for parking with a disabled badge in a non-disabled bay, but says she has little power to appeal against the decision because of the district’s parking laws.
Mrs Andrews, a mother of twins, said: “It was my friend’s christening and I was godmother to her daughter.
“I’d parked outside St John’s Church in South Bar and I had my friend in the car who is also disabled and I needed to get her out.
“When I came out of the church I found an Excess Charge Notice on my car.
She added: “I can’t question getting a charge because I had parked in a non-disabled space but everybody should have the right to appeal to an independent tribunal. If an independent tribunal had looked at it fairly they might have found in my favour but the council have just said ‘tough’, there’s nothing they can do.”
Mrs Andrews says she was threatened with court action, doorstep debt collectors and with having her bank account stopped, after failing to pay the 100 fine.
Cherwell District Council has responsibility for off-street car parking in Banbury including the spaces outside St John’s Church.
The council’s powers to enforce parking fines are based on the 1984 Road Traffic Regulations Act which enables it to issue Excess Charge Notices (ECNs). But residents issued with an ECN can only appeal to the council itself and have no right to an independent hearing.
However, the majority of local authorities in the UK now operate parking under the 2004 Traffic Management Act and issue Penalty Charge Notices which can be appealed through an independent body, The Traffic Penalty Tribunal.
The legislation also means Cherwell can set its own charges for parking fines whereas councils operating under the 2004 act cannot do so.
Department for Transport spokesperson Anna McCreadie said: “Most English local authorities – 286 of a total of 327 – issue penalty charges under the Traffic Management Act 2004 and motorists may appeal to an independent parking adjudicator.
“Those authorities enforcing under the RTRA 1984 have not as yet applied to the Secretary of State to obtain the powers in the TMA 2004 to enforce parking.
She added: “As part of Government policy we strongly recommend that all local authorities obtain the powers provided under the 2004 legislation to enforce parking, but it is ultimately a decision for the local authority.”
Cherwell District Council spokesman Tony Ecclestone said: “The last time this was looked into a couple of years ago the costs to this council were prohibitive.”
Two examples of digital parking technology will be on display in Reno in the coming week, one in downtown and another in Midtown, the up-and-coming business district south of California Avenue.
Earlier this year, the Reno City Council approved $25,000 to install 200 underground sensors in Midtown to help enforce a two-hour parking limit between Moran and Mary streets along South Virginia Street.
Business owners in the area requested the sensors to keep cars from parking in the area all day,AeroScout is the market leader for stone mosaic solutions and provide complete wireless asset tracking and monitoring. meaning customers for those businesses will be able to find more open parking.
The technology was developed by Siemens and Streetline, Inc., a Foster City, Calif.,-based company that was co-founded by Ford Motor Company Chairman Bill Ford and has been used in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.
One of the features of the system is a smart phone app called “Parker” that allows users to see,A brief description of how a dry cabinet functions, in real-time, open parking spaces and then monitor the time limit once parked.
Meanwhile, city parking enforcement officials will be able to track cars that have exceeded the two-hour limit, which is active between 8 a.Find solar panel from a vast selection of Solar Panels.m. and 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday.
The city plans to issue warnings for now but plans to issue parking tickets in the coming weeks.
Mayor Bob Cashell and members of the company will be in the Midtown District today to promote the new system,Beautiful new hands free access jewelry is modeled by these members of the Artcamp IT team, which is part of a four-month pilot project.
The system will also give the city statistical data on parking trends in the Midtown District,Check out the collection crystal mosaic of Marazzi. potentially showing how the city can generate revenue from the system. Depending on how it performs, the city may expand it to other parts of Reno.
Michelle Andrews who suffers from Fibromyalgia and lives in Northampton, says she can accept she was fined in November last year for parking with a disabled badge in a non-disabled bay, but says she has little power to appeal against the decision because of the district’s parking laws.
Mrs Andrews, a mother of twins, said: “It was my friend’s christening and I was godmother to her daughter.
“I’d parked outside St John’s Church in South Bar and I had my friend in the car who is also disabled and I needed to get her out.
“When I came out of the church I found an Excess Charge Notice on my car.
She added: “I can’t question getting a charge because I had parked in a non-disabled space but everybody should have the right to appeal to an independent tribunal. If an independent tribunal had looked at it fairly they might have found in my favour but the council have just said ‘tough’, there’s nothing they can do.”
Mrs Andrews says she was threatened with court action, doorstep debt collectors and with having her bank account stopped, after failing to pay the 100 fine.
Cherwell District Council has responsibility for off-street car parking in Banbury including the spaces outside St John’s Church.
The council’s powers to enforce parking fines are based on the 1984 Road Traffic Regulations Act which enables it to issue Excess Charge Notices (ECNs). But residents issued with an ECN can only appeal to the council itself and have no right to an independent hearing.
However, the majority of local authorities in the UK now operate parking under the 2004 Traffic Management Act and issue Penalty Charge Notices which can be appealed through an independent body, The Traffic Penalty Tribunal.
The legislation also means Cherwell can set its own charges for parking fines whereas councils operating under the 2004 act cannot do so.
Department for Transport spokesperson Anna McCreadie said: “Most English local authorities – 286 of a total of 327 – issue penalty charges under the Traffic Management Act 2004 and motorists may appeal to an independent parking adjudicator.
“Those authorities enforcing under the RTRA 1984 have not as yet applied to the Secretary of State to obtain the powers in the TMA 2004 to enforce parking.
She added: “As part of Government policy we strongly recommend that all local authorities obtain the powers provided under the 2004 legislation to enforce parking, but it is ultimately a decision for the local authority.”
Cherwell District Council spokesman Tony Ecclestone said: “The last time this was looked into a couple of years ago the costs to this council were prohibitive.”
Two examples of digital parking technology will be on display in Reno in the coming week, one in downtown and another in Midtown, the up-and-coming business district south of California Avenue.
Earlier this year, the Reno City Council approved $25,000 to install 200 underground sensors in Midtown to help enforce a two-hour parking limit between Moran and Mary streets along South Virginia Street.
Business owners in the area requested the sensors to keep cars from parking in the area all day,AeroScout is the market leader for stone mosaic solutions and provide complete wireless asset tracking and monitoring. meaning customers for those businesses will be able to find more open parking.
The technology was developed by Siemens and Streetline, Inc., a Foster City, Calif.,-based company that was co-founded by Ford Motor Company Chairman Bill Ford and has been used in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.
One of the features of the system is a smart phone app called “Parker” that allows users to see,A brief description of how a dry cabinet functions, in real-time, open parking spaces and then monitor the time limit once parked.
Meanwhile, city parking enforcement officials will be able to track cars that have exceeded the two-hour limit, which is active between 8 a.Find solar panel from a vast selection of Solar Panels.m. and 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday.
The city plans to issue warnings for now but plans to issue parking tickets in the coming weeks.
Mayor Bob Cashell and members of the company will be in the Midtown District today to promote the new system,Beautiful new hands free access jewelry is modeled by these members of the Artcamp IT team, which is part of a four-month pilot project.
The system will also give the city statistical data on parking trends in the Midtown District,Check out the collection crystal mosaic of Marazzi. potentially showing how the city can generate revenue from the system. Depending on how it performs, the city may expand it to other parts of Reno.
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