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How do you know if you have any unsettled tickets?

You would think that it would be easy to know if you have received a parking ticket (penalty charge notice is the legal name : sometime abbreviated to "PCN") and whether it is paid or not because you will know when you make contact with your car and find one on the windscreen! But it's not always the case.

In the case of the ghost ticket which is a parking fees scam I highlighted nearly 8 years ago, the ticket is not actually put on your car or handed to you eventhough it is printed out. Then some 28 or 30 days later you get a document called a Notice to Owner in the post informing you that you haven't paid the punishment charge notice : a ticket which you know absolutely nothing about. So that's one way you can get a ticket when you don't know about it and sadly it's the result of that very popular scam.

In London, in particular, there are hundreds and hundreds of closed-circuit television cameras which issue parking tickets Clearly you won't know when one is issued if you do not receive it in the post. But even that has its problems because with the uncertainty individuals UK postal system you may never get that ticket and the first you hear about it is when you get a document called a Charge Certificate or even worse an order for recovery from Northampton Regional Court saying that you haven't paid up!

So how can you find out if you've been issued with a punishment charge notice? You would think that the straightforward answer is you merely phone the Parking Department of the city you are in parking appeal. That may work in the united states and outside London but in London there are thirty three separate local councils that issue PCNs as well as Transport for London. So if you have a suspicion that you might have been caught on camera or worse that a parking worker (in The united kingdomt and Wales they are now called city enforcement officers) has fooled you this is exactly what to do.

Let's assume you know or think you know roughly where you might have been caught on camera or been seen by a parking worker.

Telephone the local authority that has legislation in the neighborhood where the camera was situated and enquire for the parking enforcement department.

Give your name, vehicle registration number and your address and simply ask for details of any punishment charge is aware of which were issued for that vehicle in say the last month. I say the last month, you could just as easily ask for the last 90 days because with the advent of CCTV issued PCNs you may have well received more than one ticket. Moreover you could equally have been the victim of more than one ghost ticket. I remember acting for one member of the public in a case before the parking adjudicator where the poor fellow had received eight ghost tickets.

Hopefully the authorities specialist dealing with your enquiry will give you the information but they may say that they can't offer information on the product because of data protection legislation. Well then you can just ask them to send the information to your registered address which will be the one registered for the vehicle concerned.

I should add that if you are worried that you have received a parking ticket whilst worries belonging to your spouse, girlfriend, friend or relative then the local authority will not give you the information because the parking fine is in law the sole responsibility of the vehicle owner rather than the driver. So be the most self-explanatory and fastest way to find out details of any parking tickets issued to your vehicle. It is clear that with the use of CCTV for PCNs enforcement and deceitful practices in parking enforcement you may well have parking tickets which you knew nothing about.