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Your priority should be to recover the car from the impound yard to prevent additional storage charges. £280 release fee + (likely) £80 for the PCN.

Then come back on here and post up all documents that you got at the impound yard. Just redact tour name and address and leave everything else visible. We can then sort out formal representations.

Because this is a PCN and tow case you have no financial incentive to do anything other than appeal the matter all the way to the Independent Adjudicator as the penalty cannot get any worse. And everything to gain, ie the £360.

lol yes from zero to hero very quickly, its unbelievable.

We're collecting the car tonight and see their docs etc and report back thanks.

Initial reactions:

- You were in the EV bay
- The bay isn't marked with a double divider or with signs at the divider
- But the EV bay is pretty obvious
- I have not checked paperwork or timings etc.
- There are 104 pics many taken at pound
- Any damage is a separate issue to be taken up with council





https://maps.app.goo.gl/eitJywrxAoNwUbvHA

https://drive.google.com/file/d/17MGv4hL7ogDm7f0VVTLszPIRhwOKXM0T/view?usp=sharing

there was the above and card receipt thats it.

Draft reps and post here.

Point out that there is no gap in markings between bays of different use and no signs at the divider and so not signed in accordance with traffic signs guidance.

From the council's pics and Maps location I posted I'd say:

Was the car parked in a parking place with two different traffic signs, one at either end? yes

Were these EV and Resident Permit holders? yes

Is the area clearly divided into two separate bays with a PAIR of parallel dashed white lines? no

I would elaborate.


I hold a valid *** permit and drove into **** where I saw a parking place on my right with a resident permit holder sign. I pulled in approx. half way along the parking place.

I left my car and returned to find a PCN for parking in an electric vehicle bay. At this point I looked at the front of the bay and saw an EV charging point and a different traffic sign i.e. EV charging only. Presumably the council consider that some part of the parking place is subject to the EV sign while at the same time some part is reserved to residents. Exactly how a motorist is supposed to know this without the presence of prescribed road markings, as can be found in the Highway Code, is a mystery. It is also improper, confusing and non-compliant with their regulatory duties (Local Authorities' Traffic Order Regulations etc.).

The PCN must be cancelled.