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Old 22nd January 2021, 11:29   #11
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If you want to really wind them up, pay an extra £0.99 when you send the cheque, they will then have to refund you the difference.
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Old 22nd January 2021, 16:52   #12
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If you want to really wind them up, pay an extra £0.99 when you send the cheque, they will then have to refund you the difference.
Is that the minimum they will entertain? Otherwise 1p would be more aggravating....

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Old 22nd January 2021, 18:10   #13
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If you want to really wind them up, pay an extra £0.99 when you send the cheque, they will then have to refund you the difference.
You need to be careful with this, my father had a speeding fine a few years ago (34mph in a 30mph zone) and overpaid it to muck up the system. He got the cheque back with a letter and and a fee for late payment.

In Oxford if you pay it within 14 days you pay less than if you wait or decide to contest it. If you contest it and loose you have to pay the full fine.

In my view over complicated parking meters or having to pay with a phone call dont help, yes I get it that the number plate is a good idea but some meters seem amazingly complicated. I recently gave up on one and moved my car to a place where you took a ticket and paid on your return.
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You need to be careful with this, my father had a speeding fine a few years ago (34mph in a 30mph zone) and overpaid it to muck up the system. He got the cheque back with a letter and and a fee for late payment.
Might not be legal if challenged in a court of law as the offer to pay has been made. The surplus of funds is interesting and I'm sure our "learned friends" would be more than happy to argue the pro's and con's at £1,000 a day.

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In Oxford if you pay it within 14 days you pay less than if you wait or decide to contest it. If you contest it and loose you have to pay the full fine.
I think that is fairly standard Steve, certainly is so in my neck of the woods. There is some form of compliance standards they have to adhere to I believe.
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In my view over complicated parking meters or having to pay with a phone call dont help, yes I get it that the number plate is a good idea but some meters seem amazingly complicated. I recently gave up on one and moved my car to a place where you took a ticket and paid on your return.
Discrimination against people who have not, or cannot, use a mobile phone but hey, the Minister present and past never gave a monkey's and it's all about ease of monetary collection (Direct Debits, Tap&Go etc.).

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Old 22nd January 2021, 19:46   #15
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I attempted to pay my last parking fine in pennies at the local council office.

After counting and bagging the exact amount, I took the entire fine (£25) and emptied them onto their counter and insisted that it was recounted and that I was issued with a receipt.

I was then quoted the Coinage act 1971, so I asked if it were permissible to pay by cheque, to which I told it was.

So I returned later on in the day with a cheque that I had written on a 2'x3' flagstone, and as it had all of the prerequisites of a cheque as advised by my bank manager, there was nothing they could say about accepting it!

You can draw your own conclusions as to the level of aggrievement I felt at being issued with a fine for parking in the depths of winter in a deserted coastal car park five minutes before the end of the charging period.

Incidentally the cheque was cashed too, I bet that was a eye opener when it was presented

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Delighted to say that parking in Wellingborough, my local town is free, and plentiful, including a multi-storey, which has just been nicely refurbished. Much of the street parking is limited to an hour, but I never fail to find a space even so.

Long may it continue - having been a Councillor for the past 18 years I shall just have to make sure I get re-elected!
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There's a few more councils implementing CAZ's this year that were postponed because of the pandemic last year, Birmingham CAZ will start on 1st June & Bath starts from March 15th. https://www.commercialfleet.org/news...one-start-date

Bradford, Portsmouth, Newcastle, Gateshead & north Tyneside are due late 2021 & greater Manchester 2022.
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Old 23rd January 2021, 10:35   #18
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There's a few more councils implementing CAZ's this year that were postponed because of the pandemic last year, Birmingham CAZ will start on 1st June & Bath starts from March 15th. https://www.commercialfleet.org/news...one-start-date

Bradford, Portsmouth, Newcastle, Gateshead & north Tyneside are due late 2021 & greater Manchester 2022.
I guess there may be fewer city centre shops and a scorched earth high street by then anyway with nothing but tumbleweed travelling the roads, so perhaps this move will just exacerbate the situation. Ironic isn’t it that councils have invested heavily in city centre developments and without the centres thriving their investments will sink. The great unwashed will just head for the outskirts anyway.

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I guess there may be fewer city centre shops and a scorched earth high street by then anyway with nothing but tumbleweed travelling the roads, so perhaps this move will just exacerbate the situation. Ironic isn’t it that councils have invested heavily in city centre developments and without the centres thriving their investments will sink. The great unwashed will just head for the outskirts anyway.

The greater Manchester CAZ that was proposed last year because of the pandemic was akin to the Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo's getting rid of 70000 car park spaces in Paris
https://www.itsinternational.com/its...parking-spaces


They wanted to get rid of 90% of private car journeys into Manchester, It's still going through public consultation.
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Old 28th January 2021, 21:01   #20
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Just money making scams & It'll be interesting to see where all the money goes.


I would imagine people will just shop elsewhere anyway where there are no scam zones & parking is free.
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