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Hi everyone,

I think I might finally have a ticket that is an easy win, but I need to sanity check.

I was driving on Union Street in Southwark and I was driving from Southwark Bridge Road towards Borough High Street, so I was going in the right direction. However, I stopped and I did a parallel park which included reversing into a parking spot. I got a ticket that I drove into NO ENTRY.

I just reversed, so the camera just activated, since theoretically I was moving in the wrong direction.

Here is the link: https://pcnevidence.southwarkparking.co.uk/pcnonline/liberatorImageProxyRaw.php?noderef=workspace%3A%2F%2FSpacesStore%2F929498bb-c18f-414e-9573-9debd1155e29&mimetype=video%2Fmp4

My car is only in the video. The actual pictures of a completely different car just driving in front of me.

There should not be a ticket, right? I mean it's very obvious to me that there shouldn't.

Are tickets not verified by a human before posting?

Thanks for your response.

Please find the PCN page attached.
It's not even my car in the pic.

That is what I thought.
Thank you so much for sanity checking.

Sorry, another silly question. Do I need to spend on a very formal and legally correct response or I just highlight the fact they hadn't checked it and they should cancel it?

That is a good point to mention the lack sign.
Thank you so much!

Please hold fire:  the PCN is invalid as it incorrectly states when they may serve a charge certificate.  End of. Case pending at the Tribunal.

Quote from: Hippocrates on February 06, 2025, 04:17:30 pm

Please hold fire:  the PCN is invalid as it incorrectly states when they may serve a charge certificate.  End of. Case pending at the Tribunal.

Well that's good but there is no contravention. No need to use that unless they act stupid.

I meant to say use both. They have already conducted themselves as you state in the live case by saying all is OK with their document.  More for the ultimate story which will ensue, The Daily Telegraph, as per the bus lane saga some months ago. Further, this will increase the possibility of a costs application.

PM sent to OP re using both before this interchange.

They've gone bonkers. Neither of the cars in the video did anything wrong as you were both going in the right direction along a one-way street. All you did was park.

You need to register an appeal with the tribunal. I'll be surprised if Southwark contests this when they look at it properly.

Register the appeal and ask for either a telephone or personal hearing. You don't have to upload anything yet but if it is contested I'd do a sketch for the adjudicator showing the layout there - the no entry road legend is for traffic coming out of the side roads just ahead and in any case there is not a no entry sign as of the Google Maps view and even if there was you wouldn't have gone back past it when parking.

Bonkers.