Hello,
I was hoping to get some advice on a parking ticket that I received on Saturday 18th January.
I was parked on a double yellow line outside the royal mail sorting office in Ashford town centre early on Saturday morning, I went into the sorting office to pick up a parcel that the postman had left a card for. I was in the sorting office no more than 2 minutes when a person came in and said that there was a warden outside ticketing the cars. I was at the front of the queue waiting for the guy to find the parcel so I nipped out and informed the warden I was getting a heavy parcel from the sorting office and would only be 2 more minutes.
The warden replied that I would be getting a ticket anyway (not that he'd started writing it at this point) so i thought I would go back in and get the parcel.
Litlerally 30 seconds later I returned to the car with the parcel and put it in the boot and went to get into the car. The warden (who was still writing the ticket) said that if i left the ticket would come in the post (which it has, on the 21st Jan)
The parcel was a large box that was very heavy and would have been difficult for me to carry to the nearest pay and display car park. I cecked the council website and they advise that loading is permitted on double yellow lines, although clearly the warden didnt think so.
Is there any grounds for appeal here? I have attached a scan of the ticket below. There were 5 A4 pages in total with page 2 on the back of page 1, and page 3 on the back of page 4.
Thanks very much,
S
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