Okay I've lodged the appeal & have included the text below.
The documents I've included are as follows:
Note I realised that they'd been sending both my PCNs and the Notice of Rejection to the incorrect postcode (should have ended in 8NQ, instead ended in 8NP). My postcode was correct with the hire company which I can prove.
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Request to accept appeal out of timeI respectfully request that the Adjudicator exercise their discretion to accept this appeal two days out of time.
The vehicle was a hire vehicle and my details were provided to the Enforcement Authority by Enterprise for the purpose of transferring liability. Enterprise's contemporaneous records show my postcode as ???8NQ. However, the Enforcement Authority addressed both the PCN and subsequently the Notice of Rejection to ???8NP. I have also since moved from that address. These circumstances caused a delay in the Notice of Rejection reaching me.
I have actively contested the PCN throughout and have submitted this appeal promptly. Given that the appeal is only two days late, and that the Notice of Rejection was addressed using an incorrect postcode, I respectfully ask the Adjudicator to allow this short extension so that the appeal can be determined on its merits.
I appeal on the grounds that the alleged contravention did not occur and that the penalty charge exceeded the amount applicable in the circumstances of the case.
1. Service of the PCN / statutory time limitThe alleged contravention occurred on 10 November 2025, but the PCN addressed to me was not served until approximately four months later. The vehicle was a hire vehicle. In an email dated 29 December 2025, which I have provided in evidence, Enterprise expressly confirmed that my details had been sent to the issuing authority for transfer of liability and reissue of the PCN.
I contend that the PCN served upon me was served outside the applicable statutory time limit.
The Notice of Rejection does not explain the chronology relied upon by the Authority. It merely states that the timescale of its “response to the hire company representation was reasonable” and compliant with the regulations. It does not identify when the hire company's representations were received, when the original PCN was cancelled, when the Authority became entitled to serve a PCN upon me, or the statutory provision under which it says service upon me approximately four months after the contravention was permitted.
I ask the Authority to establish in its evidence the complete statutory chronology and basis upon which the PCN was served.
2. Inadequate advance signageThe restriction was not adequately conveyed to a motorist approaching Rivercourt Road from the A4. The critical issue is not merely whether regulatory signs existed at the restriction, but whether adequate warning was provided before a driver committed to turning from the A4.
By the time the restriction signs become apparent to a driver entering Rivercourt Road, the driver has committed to leaving the A4 and there is no reasonable or safe opportunity to reverse onto the A4.
The need for adequate advance warning at this particular junction had previously been raised with H&F. In TfL's published response to FOI-0743-2526, issued in July 2025, TfL stated that this matter had been raised at a Borough Working Group meeting and that H&F ‘were asked to set up a warning sign on the A4’. I rely on this as evidence that the issue of advance warning had specifically arisen at this location, while recognising that the adequacy of the signage must ultimately be assessed as it existed on the date of the alleged contravention, 10 November 2025.
I have provided the TfL response in evidence.
3. TMO 2037 and consultation with TfLI also maintain my representation concerning the statutory requirements applicable to TMO 2037 and its interaction with the A4/TLRN.
TfL's published response to FOI-0743-2526 states that its Streets Asset Operations team “did not receive any notice or correspondence” from H&F relating to TMO 2037. The Notice of Rejection does not substantively address this ground of my representations.
I reserve the right to provide further evidence and submissions following disclosure of the Enforcement Authority's evidence."