Scarborough Parking Re-Set – an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, following up on his recent article “Whitby Parking Blunder” (highlighting enforcement problems at the Church Street Long Stay Car Park in Whitby). A reader has provided photographic evidence [...]
On the 22nd December 2016, North Yorkshire County Council (NYCC) and Scarborough Borough Council (SBC) released a joint statement regarding a judgment made by the UK Government’s Independent Parking Adjudicator, the Traffic Penalty Tribunal. The Tribunal ruled on December 9th [...]
This appeal to the Traffic Penalty Tribunal is tailored for Scarborough residents who’ve received a PCN after being parked in an on-street parking bay in one of the residential parking zones. Detail is here. Zone map is here. The same [...]
A number of people have started to receive replies they’ve made to the council about the Penalty Charge Notices (PCN) they’ve received. This article details the PCN procedure so you know what to expect and when. Please do not ignore [...]
As seen in the Scarborough News yesterday, YCR earlier in the week and confirmed on the SBC and NYCC websites, the councils are refusing to refund PCNs after Scarborough’s Disc Zone was ruled “unenforceable” and “an inelegant mess” by the [...]
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 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 [...]
