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Could you explain please what you mean by "the activities encompassed within the loading exemption".

Also even if various activities have been confirmed as valid in previous adjudications, what if they are not OBSERVED in those 5 minutes? (even if they were taking place and evidence later supplied)

Thank you

A lot of those activities would be taking place within the premises where the goods are being delivered or collected. All the CEO sees is a vehicle on yellow lines, and doesn't know where the driver is, so a PCN is served.  There is no requirement for the vehicle to be continuously attended, as this would be an impossibility in most cases. The adjudicator applies the civil law test of "on the balance of probabilities", so it is a matter of who he believes, you or the CEO who will not be at the adjudication, or, indeed, any other council staff either.  Councils make such huge sums from PCN penalties, they just never attend and are prepared to lose adjudications because >95% of people just cough-up when they get the PCN.

An adjudication is nothing to be scared of, but of course there is no discount option.

Go to London Tribunals and look at the Key Cases register here: -
https://www.londontribunals.gov.uk/eat/key-cases?field_subjects_value=Loading%2FUnloading+exemptions&combine=
in particular, the Jane Packer Flowers case

Here is a screenshot, taken just now

I need to submit today... What grounds should I appeal on? (Contravention Did not occur / Traffic Order Invalid / Procedural Impropriety / Charge Exceeded Amount Applicable )

Any other answers to the above also welcome :-)

So I submitted the form (to Adjudicators) today (actually technically yesterday, ie. 24th Dec).

I believe I am able to amend or add things, so if anyone has anything important they think I should add (esp whether it actually even counts as a loading bay if it has a yellow line through it, and also no times on the sign) please let me know.

Otherwise I wish you all a good Christmas break with your loved ones   

When you have a case number we can start to put further representations together.

The arrangement of signs at the site is as a minimum conflicting and therefore confusing and at most unsupported by a traffic order.

You CANNOT have a SYL (which conveys a part-time waiting restriction) at the same location as a 24/7 loading place, it's simply contrary to law.

When the authority upload their traffic order you'll be able to see what's what and refer to it specifically and in detail.

Have Lewisham behave "wholly unreasonably" ? This is the test for a costs application. Why not claim them at the tribunal ?