Hi all,
I received a windscreen PCN whilst parked in a pay by phone bay, outside a hospital.
The parking was for 4 hours (roughly 0830 to 1230, which is the max allowed stay, with no return in 4 hours), and the fairly routine visit was not expected to be any longer than this.
Instead, to cut a long story short, my wife ended up delivering our baby unexpectedly that afternoon!
I received a PCN timed 1529, code 11, which is parking without payment. It's not the code for overstaying a session, as far as I am aware.
I am going to appeal citing mitigating circumstances - we were definitely not expecting to be suddenly admitted and baby delivered. But I was wondering whether it's also worth mentioning that the wrong code has been used?
The car overstayed the session; the contravention was not that the parking was never paid for to begin with.
Thanks