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The below is slightly off post but might be if interest - our dog travels with us everywhere, when he is left in the car we leave the windows ajar ,this carries a risk of the ticket being blown away hence my reason in writing to the Council i- this was the reply I receive. I do now carry a bulldog clip in the car at attach the ticket to. Thank you for your enquiry regarding the usage of non-adhesive pay and display tickets rather than the adhesive ones that we used up until a couple of years ago. Hopefully my explanation will give you a better understanding of my decision to move away from adhesive tickets and why I prefer non-adhesive tickets. 1. Non adhesive P+D tickets are used by many other authorities and are around £1.00 per thousand cheaper. We use around two million tickets a year so there are good financial reasons. 2. Less time is spent putting tickets into the P+D machines all around the county, as non-adhesive tickets come in batches of 5000 rather than 3000 (adhesive). This is because there is more paper on adhesive tickets so take up more space. 3. The non-adhesive tickets are also more environmentally friendly with nearly half as much paper used and obviously no glue. A lot of people do not like the residue that the adhesive tickets leaves on the windscreen. 4. Adhesive tickets result in more P+D machine problems with the residue from the glue causing ticket cutting problems in the winter. We found that on very cold days the tickets ‘dragged’ in the machines which resulted in them being cut in half. Some people had half a ticket and the next person got one and a half tickets! Since we have moved over to non-adhesive tickets this problem has been totally resolved so less machine down time. 5. Although non-adhesive tickets do occasionally get knocked or blown off the dash board the team which deals with challenges against penalty charge notices have informed me that they now have less challenges against the PCN’s for tickets that are not displayed correctly. This may in part be due to, previously on hot summer days (wish we had more!) the glue occasionally 'melted' resulting in P+D tickets falling off the car windows. 6. From an enforcement view it is easier and quicker for the CEO's as tickets are now left on the dash board rather than on different windows of the vehicles. If a PCN is issued to a vehicle where the P+D ticket has blown onto the footwell or the P+D ticket is displayed face down, any mitigating circumstances such as this are taken into account by the team who deals with the challenges and often a motorist is able to produce a valid ticket which helps in their challenge. Yours Sincerely David Hepworth Parking Enforcement Team Leader

Colin, my suggestion is that when you stand for election you "employ" Bobby47 as your Election Manager . He like you is an honest person who says it as it is. My first post on this very informative site.