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Hi all. The keeper of the car received a PCN from Barnet Council and wishes to challenge it. The challenge needs to be in before Saturday.

The PCN was issued on the car which was parked in the road where the keeper lives, just a few yards down where there is a business premises. The challenge will be made by email so that the keeper can forward an email received from the owner of the business who has kindly written some information to help support the keeper's appeal.

I'm just hoping someone here can help with wording an appeal better than the keeper can other than just asking them to read the forwarded supporting email? Thank you.

I've attached the front and back of the PCN, some photos of the car from their website as taken by the person that created the PCN, and the email received from the business owner that will be forwarded to Barnet Council.

Couldn't get attachments to work so I'm including thumbnails that are expandable

Don't hide the PCN number or car VRM (numberplate) - we need those.

Ok, I can do that. May I ask why those are important, particularly as I thought that sort of information was meant to be kept confidential? The keeper just needs help with wording the challenge and all the information relating to the PCN and why the PCN was wrongly issued is in the photo attachments.

Ok, here's the PCN again showing all details.

Here?

Here?

https://www.google.com/maps/@51.5980686,-0.1800061,3a,65.2y,29.84h,78.05t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sDDzXeJFIaoSuCxReHOvcaw!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D11.949080705236327%26panoid%3DDDzXeJFIaoSuCxReHOvcaw%26yaw%3D29.840471866570393!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MTEyNC4xIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

Yes, that's the exact location.

GSV is Google Street View on Google Maps and if you go the link I posted you can set back in time with the same view.

It looks like a clear if badly maintained crossover.

The issue is that it's very probably the person who lives in that house got upset and called Barnet, which has form in issuing petty PCns like this.

Thanks for replies. Ah well, costs nothing to try so I might as well still continue with the challenge and forward the supporting letter, even though I don't doubt what you're saying is correct. Probably won't work based on your finds, but there's still another 14 days to pay the reduced amount if they reject it.

By the way, just wanted to ask something else on a separate point regarding how to post here. I was a member of Pepipoo for years and only today I realised it's gone and is now basically these forums.  At Pepipoo, I was always told to say 'the keeper' rather than admit myself, so was wondering why that's not the case now. Cheers.

Do you know the residents of that house?

It is critical not to disclose the driver in challenges to private parking PCNs but it's not applicable to public authorities, which come under different legislation.

Thanks for the clarification on that. 

On the point of the residents, I don't know them but I'll assume it's the people that rent the upstairs flat in front of where my car was parked that might have put in a complaint. I believe it's owned by the business that wrote my supporting letter and the residents are their tenants.