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I received a PCN for parking on a yellow line on a restricted residential street which I appealed on the grounds that I was parked on a single yellow line outside of the restricted hours and that I believed the civil enforcement officer had made a genuine error. I got a letter back from Greenwich council stating that I was parked on a double yellow line and so the PCN would not be cancelled.

I genuinely don't think this is a double yellow line.

I have lived and parked on this road for a decade and have always believed this to be a single yellow line that had been mispainted as they went round the curve of the junction and never fixed. The opposite side of the street and all the surrounding streets are single yellow lines at the junctions, the two lines don't run exactly in parallel to each other and the transition from one single yellow to double yellow at the corner is clumsy and does not look intentionally designed in my view.

I've checked Google Street view which has photos going back to 2012 and believe that the history over the years shows that it was definitely a single line back then and looks to me as though the erroneous second line had been covered over and in the nearly 14 years since seems to have eroded away and become visible again. As a long time resident who has always 'known' this to be a single yellow line I didn't even think it could be considered a double yellow by an enforcement officer and made no argument that it was a single yellow line in my initial appeal to the council.

The letter I've received states that my choices are either to pay the discounted fee or pursue a formal appeals process but that I would lose the right to pay a discounted rate if I appealed again. What would be my best course of action? I have emailed the parking design team at the council asking for confirmation that this section is a double yellow as claimed but I'm not optimistic they'll respond within the 14 days I have to pay the discount. Would a formal appeal with the evidence I have be likely to succeed?
I would pay the discount if I'm in the wrong but I just can't see how this is a legitimate double yellow myself! Would also welcome any advice on how I might be able to confirm if a junction has double or single yellows. Is information like this publicly available? Should I ask my local councillor for help? All advice much appreciated!

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Thanks for your reply.

Do you know how I can go about finding the traffic orders so I could try and verify if it's a single line?

Is there a particular team at the council I need to approach for these or does TFL hold the traffic orders for London? Or are these publicly available anywhere that you could point me towards? A surface level Google hasn't proved fruitful for me!

Photos of your car show you clearly parked on a double-yellow line, so you'll need a very good appeal argument to present to the adjudicator at London Tribunals.  Yes, where the lines combine and go round the corner is obviously   wrong, but you weren't parked there.

As stamfordman says, only the traffic order will decide the matter.

 I see no GSV link on here, have I missed it ? If you claim it was once a single yellow then previous GSV views should back you up, but the traffic order is the decider. The other point is that double-yellow lines are commonly used for street corners to stop parking, so this being double-yellow would not be unusual.

I don't think there's any doubt it's a single yellow as you can see one of the lines should be blanked from Maps views.

The timeplate says 11am-1pm Mon-Fri and the PCN is timed at 11.29am on 27 Sept which was a Saturday, so unrestricted then.

I would do as I suggested and ask for the order.

That is, going by what we can see in the past.

Is that timeplate still there around the corner?