Braintree district: Drivers fined £193,000 last year (From Halstead Gazette)
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Braintree district: Drivers fined £193,000 last year
5:00pm Wednesday 30th January 2013 in News
Drivers were fined more than £193,000 last year for parking offences
Drivers in the Braintree district were fined nearly £200,000 last year for on-street parking offences.
North Essex Parking Partnership, which enforces the regulations, ticketed more than 7,570 drivers and collected more than £193,000 in fines.
The NEPP is run by Colchester Council and Essex County Council and covers six districts.
A Braintree Council spokesman said: “The NEPP retains all of the income from penalty charge notices that is used to offset the cost of providing the service.”
A NEPP spokesman said: “The partnership enforces all parking and waiting restrictions across the partnership area to help ensure safe traffic flow, reduce congestion and maximise availability for those wishing to park.
“Focus is given to priority areas including town centres, schools and visitor attractions, whilst still maintaining coverage of all other locations.”
OMPITA [UK] says...
11:38pm Wed 30 Jan 13
Recently widowed and having also recently lost his only son this veteran who served his country for several years in India during World War 2 and was subsequently fully employed for the remainder of his working life was mortified at being treated as a criminal deserving of a crippling punitive fine.
I submit for public information the text of the appeal that was lodged on his behalf. I defy anyone to justify why the Bloody Gestapo responsible for running this despicable outfit should have seen fit not to show him any mercy.
Here’s the text. Please do take a minute or two to read it and the make your own mind up:
Quote - I submit this challenge on behalf of my Uncle –name and address deleted.
He is a very frail elderly gentleman – 86 years of age – who struggles with quite serious short term memory difficulties. Recently widowed, he is in the habit of taking his meals in the Weatherspoons Picture House Restaurant in Fairfield Road. He can only walk a very short distance unaided and so he regularly parks in the same location – which is just a few metres from the entrance. He is normally very conscientious about using his Disabled Person’s Parking Card.
Yesterday however I accompanied him to lunch and I suspect that because we were chatting on arrival at Fairfield Road his attention was distracted and he just simply forgot to display his card. He always keeps it out of sight in the glove compartment when not actually in use.
He only realised what had happened when we returned to his car after lunch and found the PCN attached to the windscreen.
He is a quintessentially English gentleman of the ‘old school’ who has never collected any form of penalty in his whole life and he is unwarrantedly distressed about having been reported for what he perceives to be a criminal offence.
I would be most grateful if you could please set his mind at ease and deal compassionately with this request as soon as possible.
Thank you.
Signed XXX