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    Not_bad_housekeeper wrote:
    @the wall perhaps if you get parking tickets despite parking correctly, you use your employers time and telephone line to ring up and appeal, and your wages don't get docked but when you're self employed it, every second you spend not working affects your income. Why should small businesses suffer because Bexley council screwed up? Especially when the appeals process is time consuming for example they refuse to even acknowledge your parking ticket until the day after its been issued, so there's 24 hours lost already. There's also the risk that if the appeal fails and its out of a specific time period, you still have to pay the ticket but at its higher charge. As for the apology, when you do something wrong, you apologise. Its polite. I'm sure if you screw up at work, the first thing you do is apologise, in fact, if you didn't your boss wouldn't be too impressed, but Bexley Council appear not to have to say sorry for their mistakes?

    @briancooke104 Running to NS does have some effect. It raises awareness about the issue, in fact so much so that it lead you to comment on this story..... You may have the opinion the gentleman in question is a liar but by posting that opinion online without any hard evidence or facts to back it up is actually libel. I believe a bexley resident has just been imprisoned for some opinions they made on Twitter......
    Not bad housekeeper. Suggest you learn to read before you post on here you thickko. I said probably a liar. Unlike you who are a liar FACT. Saying what I said s a libel is untrue so it's you that s te liar. I may take action plonker"
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Welling man Pete Skinner slams Bexley Council for "incorrect" Bexleyheath parking ticket

Pete Skinner Pete Skinner

A WELLING man has slammed Bexley Council for wasting his "time and money" claiming he was wrongly issued a parking ticket.

Pete Skinner is a self-employed central heating engineer and on Thursday (April 19) at around 9am he attended a customer's home in Harding Road, Bexleyheath.

He says he parked in a bay and put a parking permit in the kerbside window on the driver's side.

Mr Skinner, of Selwyn Crescent, told News Shopper: "The customer checked I had scratched off the relevant pieces properly on the permit and displayed it correctly."

When he left the property around two hours later he was shocked to find a £110 parking ticket for not "clearly displaying a valid permit or voucher or pay and display ticket issued for that place".

Mr Skinner, 58, said: "I am trying to run a business and cannot afford to spend my valuable time challenging these incorrect penalty charge notices."

He added: "It drives you mad. They rely on the fact that it costs me more to contest and they hope I'll just pay up.

"Is this very different to somebody trying to mug me in the street?"

The same thing happened to Mr Skinner two years ago but the fine was cancelled after he appealed.

He said: "I received no apology or compensation, just a curt note saying they would not prosecute.

"These people refuse to take any responsibility for their actions. They need to be stopped."

A council spokeswoman said: “The motorist has not yet submitted an informal challenge against the issue of the penalty charge - as is required in the regulations - so we cannot comment.

“The Council does not consider it appropriate to discuss matters related to penalty charges in the media that have not yet been resolved through the correct and proper process, as this may bring the entire system into disrepute and undermines the principles of a statutory process.”

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