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I’ve lived at my home for 12 years and was shocked to find a PCN on my windscreen last week. In all my time living here I don’t think I’ve even seen a parking warden on my street.

I can’t deny that a single yellow line runs down the kerb across the property, and though it’s fairly faded where I’ve been parking, I couldn’t say that the line was broken. It’s approximately 45 metres to the signage that applies to the line (Mon-Sat 8am-6pm), and I can’t say that I’ve ever noted its content as I’ve never had an issue in 12 years and as the signage is stationed in front of a business, so I would have assumed it applied to protect the parking spaces reserved for their employees rather than the entire kerb line.

I understand that not much of this is grounds for a proper appeal but as you can imagine I feel a bit aggrieved at getting a PCN for parking outside my own house, and if anyone has an idea of how I can best appeal it (if indeed you think there are any grounds) I’d be very grateful.

Here’s the PCN:


Here are images of the line from both sides:





And finally, here is the signage, which again is about 45 metres down the road in front of the business:

Please give us a GSV link to the exact location on Miller St.

Your car is well off the carriageway, leaving not all that much room for pedestrians and people with prams and invalid carriages, so the council may have receive a complaint and sent out a CEO, hence the PCN. Do you always park like this in your 12 years of parking ?  The only appeal argument I can think of here, is 'legitimate expectation'. This is to state that you have been parking for many years adjacent to the yellow line and have never got a PCN, and consider that advance notice of enforcement should have been delivered to residents

Please give us a GSV link to the exact location on Miller St.

Your car is well off the carriageway, leaving not all that much room for pedestrians and people with prams and invalid carriages, so the council may have receive a complaint and sent out a CEO, hence the PCN. Do you always park like this in your 12 years of parking ?  The only appeal argument I can think of here, is 'legitimate expectation'. This is to state that you have been parking for many years adjacent to the yellow line and have never got a PCN, and consider that advance notice of enforcement should have been delivered to residents

GSV: https://maps.app.goo.gl/GCjQZXcT5gjECTec9

Yes, always for 12 years. It’s more common for cars to park on the other side in the same manner. One might imagine this is because fewer of the homes on that side have driveways, and perhaps also as there’s no yellow line. If my driveway was designed better I’d use it. There’s a couple of us that don’t have driveways.

Any other thoughts?

Many thanks.