Hello,
Firstly can I say thank you for your amazing work here. PCN + pictures here:
https://imgur.com/a/7LSQFDu
I was issued a council PCN for parking without a valid ticket in an off-street carpark. I actually had an old, invalid ticket displayed on windshield at the time, so my fault completely.
However, looking at the PCN pictures, the CEO seems to have very deliberately placed the PCN over the EXACT location on the windshield with my (old, invalid) ticket displayed. Furthermore, the general picture quality is really poor with a lot of reflections.
Chiefly, there is no picture of the full windshield/vehicle WITHOUT the PCN (which ironically would have shown the old and invalid ticket). Therefore, they cannot prove that a ticket was not correctly displayed at the time? Also Image 4 seems to be pretty bizarre, not sure what it illustrates. Of course, the machine records will show it never issued a valid ticket for me so I can't escape that one, but on the face of it I think it's cut and dry in my favour?
Can I appeal on any grounds (procedural)?
Should I request higher quality images?
Council says it can provide CCTV images if requested.