UKIP’s Scarborough & Whitby Borough Councillors have made the following statement regarding the Traffic Penalty Tribunal’s judgement that Scarborough & Whitby’s Disc Zone are legally unenforceable. UKIP Scarborough and Whitby are very disappointed to learn that despite our enquiries just [...]
It began in May 2014 when a member of the public contacted the North Yorks Enquirer about a Scarborough shop owner who had accumulated over a thousand parking PCNs (Penalty Charge Notice). At £75 per PCN and adding in court [...]
A resident of Whitby who was given a Penalty Charge Notice (PCN) by Scarborough Borough Council (SBC) has won the case at the Traffic Penalty Tribunal. The judgement from the Tribunal is below. As you can see, the Traffic Penalty [...]
A quick look around Knaresborough’s Controlled Parking Zones (CPZs) on Google Streetmap shows that Harrogate Borough Council (HBC) replicated the Knaresborough signage from their Harrogate CPZs. Like the Harrogate, Scarborough and Whitby’s CPZs, the signage does not make a single [...]
A quick look around Harrogate Borough Council’s (HBC) Controlled Parking Zones (CPZs) on Google Streetmap yields a clue where Scarborough Borough Council (SBC) copied their CPZ signage from. Like Scarborough and Whitby, Harrogate’s CPZs do not make a single mention [...]
A quick look around Whitby’s Controlled Parking Zones (CPZs) yields a few clues the local authority that implemented it has taken note of previous implementation problems and has smartened up its act. Last week, I posted an adjudication notice from [...]
During May of this year, I wrote an article which detailed why Scarborough’s Residential Parking Zones (CPZs) are a farce. The article highlighted a High Court ruling by Mrs Justice Lang which stated that it was illegal for authorities to [...]
Three months ago I wrote an article about why I thought that Penalty Charge Notices (PCNs) handed out in on-street Controlled Parking Zones (CPZs) in Scarborough by Scarborough Borough Council (SBC), are handed out with the full knowledge that they’d [...]
As residents of Scarborough town centre are aware, since the last millennium a Controlled Parking Zone or CPZ has been in place to control on-street parking. The scheme was introduced to the folks in the town centre as a residential [...]