Parking Ticket on a road closed to traffic

[lister185]

5 of my work collegues got parking tickets on a road that was closed by the council for work being undertaken. We were advised it was ok to park there by the workmen as the road was closed and we couldnt get access to our staff car park. Where were then given 5 tickets of course on 5 cars.

Is there not somehting somewhere that says if road is closed then parking restrictions do not apply as the road is not actively being used.

[Hippy]

You might have a defence if the yellow lines were interruped or blotted out by the messy road works or were not properly finished off at the end, or the signs had been removed by the contractors. The fact that the road was closed does not in itself "switch off" the parking restrictions.

If you want to challenge the tickets you almost certainly need to go to court and make an appeal to the Magistrates' sense of fair play. The parking restriction was enacted to assist the flow of traffic. However, with the road closed this reason was redundant. The contractor's muddy works obscured the yellow lines. Etc etc.

[twiglet4frog]

appeal, about 50% of parking fines are overturned and thrown out on appeal, especially if u state that the road was closed and the council offered the use of the closed street as a place to park as the council blocked access to a company carpark that technically should have found a way to allow access to.

[Beena72]

Traffic Regulations Orders (the things that allow restrictions to be enforceable) stay valid on any road, whether temporarily stopped up or otherwise. Council workmen are not legally empowered to override TRO's, only policemen can do that. Only if the TRO was suspended would the restrictions not be in place.

[Beena72]

Sorry, meant to ad that if access to your property was blocked you should have been notified in advance. If you weren't adequately consulted, go to the issuing authority and complain.