Hello
After a recent visit to my elderly parents in London to take them food as father immobilised by a back injury and my mother suffering from Alzheimer's
I returned home after a few days and subsequently received a parking ticket in the post.
The post stated that I had tried to drive away as a PCN was being prepared.
This was supposed to have taken place at 4.30pm.
At the time I was half a mile away sitting in a pub.
My Covid app shows I checked in here at 3.15pm.
I paid the bill when I left and the bank tell me this was at 5.17pm.
I am trying to get the bank to give me written proof that this was the time I used the card but this is proving problematic as local branch closed because of the lockdown
I did not go near the car, or try to drive it away.
It stayed in the same spot for the whole period I visited my parents.
I renewed the manual tickets scrupulously on time and there was a valid ticket in the car at the time stated.
I cant express how unbelievably angry I am over this, as this is a blatant attempt to defraud me of forty quid or possibly more.
From reading around various advice sites it would seem that parking tribunals always give councils the benefit of the doubt as they assume parking attendants don't lie.
There is zero evidence from the council that this happened,
no photos of car or permit,
and never can be as the events they describe did not happen.
What is the best way for me to challenge this effectively?
Any help greatly appreciated