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Peter Black and South Wales West Liberal DemocratsRepresenting Aberavon, Bridgend, Gower, Neath, Ogmore, Port Talbot, and Swansea |
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Neath Port Talbot Parking policy needs amending says Assembly Member
November 22, 2006 2:30 PM
The Welsh Liberal Democrat Assembly Member for South Wales West, Peter Black has written to the Head of Policy at Neath Port Talbot Council questioning their guidelines regarding parking tickets.
His query comes about after a disabled constituent received three fixed penalty tickets after failing to display his blue disabled parking badge correctly. When he appealed the Council agreed to cancel one ticket but not the other two, even though he was properly parked in a designated area. despite When Mr Black questioned this he was told that it was council policy to only rescind one fixed penalty per person.
"It seems to me that assessing the legality of a parking ticket on a case by case basis is far more sensible than saying 'we've let you off one, but that's your lot, pay up," said Mr. Black. "There is a danger that under the current system parking attendants may be less diligent in the way that they interpret and enforce traffic regulations as they know that if a car owner has already got off one ticket they are unlikely to have any others annulled."
"In my constituent's case, there was no attempt to explain to him his error in the way that he was displaying his disabled parking badge. He therefore proceeded on the basis that an error had been made. It is obviously distressing to receive a parking fine especially when you haven't actually committed an offence. To be told that as you have been booked and had your fine cancelled before then you will have to pay it is just madness."
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