Car towed Newham, code 01 parked in a restricted street

on 27 Jun 2027, I got to Atlantis Avenue at 2am, saw a bay marking but also a double yellow line that extended into the next bay, saw it as a viable parking spot as it was 2 am at the time and street signs read Mon-Fri 9am-6:30pm. I have parked several times in said spot with no issue and seen others do same. I came out at 1pm 27 Jun 2026 to find my car gone and upon investigation discovered it had been towed. Upon car retrieval, I noted that I had received PCN PN26255708 at 07:46am and my car was towed at 09:02 am. you will find from the pictures that I was not obstructing any turns or pedestrian crossings or curbs.

I am essentially writing to see if I have grounds for an appeal, as I feel the punishment of £360 to retrieve my car did not fit the contravention I had, which I did not actually know was a contravention because of the confusing markings. VRM: KP21UVC



Location:

Photos in Drive:

What a council balls-up ! A bay and also double-yellow lines. The two are totally incompatible.

As you have paid all there is to pay, you should appeal this all the way to London Tribunals where I am pretty sure you'd win and get your money back, but first you must submit representations to Newham, who will reject them, of course. You then register an appeal at London Tribunals at no extra cost to yourself. I suspect the council may then back down, but there's no guarantee on this.

Whose photos have you posted and if a mix could you please separate the council's from yours.

The DYL in one of the photos clearly terminates before the bay in which you were parked, a bay which appears to have a traffic sign within.

Pl post a GSV link.

These are all my photos, the bay I was parked in is the empty one at the front with the DYL and bay markings

OK, bay markings worn, but markings like this are always claimed by councils as OK, so they are OK here, IMHO.

Bay here in 2020

All DYLs in 2018


No GSV view for 2019

Clearly an error occurred when installing the bay.

Thank you, do you think it’s solid grounds for an appeal, if not the PCN at the very least, the towing

Council pics. Nothing showing any (possibly re-emerged) bay lines. Nothing on tow.

GSV pl.

Incandescent has posted a series of Maps views.

I would like to see all other documents the car pound gave to you, include the back if not blank

Drive like

Thank you for the car pound documents. Councils often used to get these wrong but Newham's look to be correct to me so no grounds there.

Your best bet seems to be the bay markings and that it was dark at the time you parked. (It looks to me like the bay got shortened and although old markings are meant to be burnt off they are often simply painted over and they can wear or wash away).

Your tribunal appeal is that no contravention occurred due to the bay markings inviting you to park at that time. Towing you was also not proportionate but that would be a harder one to get an adjudicator to agree.

Thank you for this, so you advice I appeal?

Yes as you will never see your money back otherwise.

Amendment - I should have written 'make representations to the council' rather than saying yes to your thought of Appealing. You have to have your representations rejected by the council before you can Appeal but rejection is highly likely.

I don't think that the worn bay markings are a shoo-in. The DYL are clear and terminated correctly behind you.

The council's position that you were parked outside a parking place and on DYL.
Your position is that you were parked within a bay indicated by prescribed markings to your left and in front and that these and the DYL were conflicting indicators.

I would also add that you saw the traffic sign to your rear and to your right and reasoned that because it did not contain an arrow, it did not mark the start of a parking restriction despite being placed exactly in line with markings but was of the form you would expect to find within a parking place, which is where it would be situated if you were in a parking bay.

You went for the parking place version of the conflicting indicators and got towed as a result.