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West End Extra - LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Published: 21 September 2007

Parking fine appeals are out of line

• I SEE from your story (‘The blight of bogus fines,’ September 14) that poor Westminster Parking has been caught out telling porkies (again).
In this letters column a couple of weeks ago Alistair Gilchrist, Westminster Parking’s spin-meister, castigated me for suggesting that 60-70 per cent of parking tickets were overturned on appeal. It turns out I was wrong: it is nearer 90 per cent.
Perhaps Gilchrist would like to apologise to West End Extra readers for misleading them.?
In your article Councillor Danny Chalkley appears to admit the abuse but erroneously blames overzealous application of the law on the part of wardens. Not so: it is due to the overzealous determination of wardens to hit their quotas – now laughably renamed ‘targets’. In any case this notion of incentivising any form of law enforcement is fundamentally flawed, contrary to natural justice and wide open to abuse.

MARTIN KENNEDY
Brewer Street, W1

Send your letters to: The Letters Editor, West End Extra, 40 Camden Road, London, NW1 9DR or email to letters@westendextra.co.uk. The deadline for letters is midday Wednesday. The editor regrets that anonymous letters cannot be published, although names and addresses can be withheld. Please include a full name, postal address and telephone number.
Letters may be edited for reasons of space.

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