A couple who "love visiting Southport" say they will not return to the town after being "wrongly" issued with a parking fine.
Susan and Kevin Attwell, from the West Midlands, parked their motorhome on Southport's Promenade on Wednesday September, 8.
The pair say they have visited the town and parked in the same spot "about ten times".
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Susan told the ECHO : "We always park there, and we put the ticket on the dashboard.
"We had been out for the day and we came back to a ticket.
"We've been sent a photograph of our vehicle, but it's been taken from a distance so the ticket isn't visible.
"We'd have had no problem paying the fine if we were in the wrong, but we aren't."
Susan says she sent Sefton Council a photograph of their ticket on the motorhome's dashboard, and asked the local authority to send them a photo of their dashboard, but says the council was unable to produce one.
Part of an email from the council reads: "No valid ticket was visible.
"Your photograph shows the ticket placed approx. 1cm under the concertina blind however this is not visible in the officer's photograph.
"The officers do check the entire vehicle for signs of a ticket and in this instance they have noted no ticket. It is my decision not to cancel the notice on these grounds."
The couple say the incident has put them off returning to Southport.
Susan continued: "One centimetre out... from the angle that photo has been taken I'm not surprised the ticket isn't visible, the officer must have been stood metres away.
"We actually forgot to put a ticket on [another time] and if we'd have been fined then, we'd have paid it. But this time we had a ticket on there and we did nothing wrong.
"It's the principle."
Sefton Council says Mr and Mrs Attwell can make a formal complaint.
Their spokesman told the ECHO : “If Mr and Mrs Atwell wish to make formal representations to the council regarding this ticket, in line with grounds set out in the Traffic Management Act 2004.
“We will then reopen the case, refund the money they have already paid and wait for them to send us the Notice to Owner they will subsequently receive, for consideration.”
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