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After months ignoring fines, bailiffs, debt recovery letters and receiving a court summons, the claim was finally increased to \u00a3261.72.<\/p>\n

“The whole way along nobody [was] really paying attention to the appeals that I’d made,” he said.<\/p>\n

“A little bit of me was thinking ‘pay it up’. But at the same time I’m fully convinced I’ve done nothing wrong here.”<\/p>\n

About a month before his county court hearing, scheduled for 8 May, he got a letter saying VCS had dropped the claim “with no explanation”.<\/p>\n

“I felt vindicated,” he said. “It’s annoying we had to go through this painful process to get here \u2013 it would have saved a whole year of our lives.”<\/p>\n

He claimed that others had reported similar issues in online forums.<\/p>\n

Commenting on Mr Fitzheslop’s experience, lawyer Gary Rycroft said: “I’ve heard of similar cases when [people] have pushed back and queried if these fines are enforceable \u2013 then they have been withdrawn.”<\/p>\n

VCS confirmed to the BBC it had taken people to court over parking on double red lines but wouldn’t confirm if they had won.<\/p>\n

Mr Fitzheslop said he now preferred to park outside the airport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After months ignoring fines, bailiffs, debt recovery letters and receiving a court summons, the claim was finally increased…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-289923","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114912551527491644","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}