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Illegally parked Traffic Warden issuing parking tickets.

A parking warden today issued a ticket outside my shop on a vehicle that was loading. The parking warden insisted that the vehicle had been there for six minutes. The driver felt he had not and as an observer I agreed he had not been there that long at all, the traffic warden was unrepentant and the man will now have to appeal this ticket.I then realised that the warden was parked in a spot where I have previously been ticketed for parking. I pointed out to the warden that he had no more right to park illegally then I did or than the man who had just been ticketed. The response was an aggressively / dismissive ''Are you trying to tell me how to do my job''. to which I replied ''I am not only telling you how to do your job, I am also going to report you for writing an unlawfully ticket and for illegal parking''.I then went over to take the number of his motorbike but the warden  fled on it,in an attempt to prevent me writing his registration down. I believe it was LB07 LEAM, I have complained to the council but I am not convinced they will care.I personally do not understand why a road that is full of boarded up and derelict buildings and that is only used for access, needs parking restrictions that ban all parking during the day anyway. Every building will soon be demolish. Currently there is practically no through traffic and we have such a shortage of parking available to the High Street shopper that it restricts trade in the area and prevents the High Street from functioning as it should.Sorry for the rant but it needed saying.

Philip Walsh ● 6444d7 Comments

DavidHappy to talk with you about parking in your and neighbouring streets. Give me a call on 8560 7033.Sad to say that the advert on the Alfa Lavel building is not illegal. It was given consent by the planning inspector earlier this year, with the only releif being that the lights must be facing into the building, or down, in order to reduce light pollution and must be turned off at 11pm.

Matt Harmer ● 6439d

Hounslow Council states that it collected 3,143,600 pounds in parking fines April '06 - May '07. I have also asked for the take for this financial year under the Freedom of Information Act but have not been given it.    If you appeal against a fine the charge if you loose gets greater, with the scary threat of costs as well. On August 31st I got a ticket for parking in the least obstructive place outside my house in Challis Rd. Because the pavement is over 3m wide there while the road is just over 4.5m if you park in the road when someone is parked opposite you block the road, so people have always self-regulated by using the pavement. When I parked on the pavement (a one-off because of neighbour's building work)it still left over 1.5m for push-chairs, wheel-chairs and pedestrians to pass.In Greater London apparently it is always illegal to park on the pavement - however daft the alternative.    Next weekend I  intend to leaflet Challis Rd, Eastbourne Rd and Clements Place about the Parking Department's unreasonableness and later organise a petition with whoever will help.    Every weekend and most evenings Challis Rd pavements have cars on the outer edge, and I for one am happy to see Brentford supporters use us on home days. Strangely the Council does not pick on Brentford supporters. (Just as it does not prevent the 12 story high illegal advertising on the Alpha-Laval (old Brentford Nylons)tower opposite us (see my next rant re latest plans)) If the parking on our pavements were anti-social why were there no fines in our road last year? (Unaccountably poor old Eastborne Rd got 59.)  For most people it's cheaper to pay up than loose a day's pay appealing in person - nice little earner. I'll let you know what happens at my next level of appeal. Common sense justice would be original.    I'll try the direction Matt Harmer recommends as well, but as my Freedom of Information Act reply was incomplete and the parking department said they were only obliged to give one reply when I countered their first rejection it doesn't look like the best use of time.    Does any one else begin to feel there is a Borough-wide scam?

David Dewhurst ● 6439d

Best to contact one of your Syon ward councillors and ask them to look into this. Details on the council website but email Shirley.Fisher@hounslow.gov.uk for a start. Let us know how you get on. (I'm a Brentford councillor, different ward, don't want to get in trouble).

Matt Harmer ● 6439d

Same happened to me I was loading in my van at the back street behind the magistrates court and this short dark skinned fella tried to issue me a ticketI told him that I would complain and he changed his mindHis attitude was poor as well

Graeme Perkins ● 6441d

totally agree. so what do we do to change it?

Jamie Halliday ● 6444d

Sorry Jamie, I realised I had not put the road as I posted it.Its Brent Way of course, that little road just behind the High  Road, so convenient for the High Street shops it even has alleyways to make it easer. It may even bring the locals to the High Road to shop,that would be novel.

Philip Walsh ● 6444d

which road are you talking about phillip?i live just off brent way and i feel we have the same issue. restrictions are there to aid access, but in brent ways case, access to what? does anyone know how one would go about have the resrictions changed on a public highway?

Jamie Halliday ● 6444d