Half of all Worthing's contested parking tickets cancelled
ALMOST a third of parking tickets given out in Worthing in the last year were appealed against – and more than half of them were cancelled.
The figures about how many appeals were "accepted" by Worthing Council have been revealed as complaints about tickets being given out "unfairly" by parking attendants continue to flood into the Herald.
Worthing's on-street parking manager, Mandy Ainsworth, revealed that 9,287 parking tickets were appealed against last year – that is almost a third of all the tickets given out (31,741).
Of the 9,287 appeals, 4,439 were accepted at the first stage and subsequently cancelled.
Of the 1,159 appeals that reached the second stage of the process, a further 535 were accepted and cancelled.
That means of the 9,287 appeals, the council accepted 4,974 of them should be cancelled – that is 54 per cent of all the tickets appealed against in the last year.
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