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@cp8759 pls find attached the message I get when I try searching for PCN.

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Thanks.
That worked I can see its still £204.
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Keep checking.

Please post up the remaining pages (often mistakes in 'small print').

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@DIP181394 please stop adding documents as attachments, there is a detailed guide here on how to post images.

Here's a draft representation:

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Dear London Borough of Newham,

I challenge liability on the ground that the alleged contravention did not occur. There is no advance warning signage on Leytonstone Road so once a driver is committed to the turn, there is little to no chance to take an alternative route.

Furthermore, the Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2016 require diagram 619 signs to be illuminated during the hours of darkness, but no such illumination is present.

It follows that the penalty charge must be cancelled.
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I'd expect the council to reject but you can then appeal to the tribunal, I've won at this location before.

Send the representation online via https://parking.newham.gov.uk/Pages/OnlineReferenceEntry.aspx?loadtype=FORMAL and keep a screenshot of the confirmation page.

@cp8759 I was abled to submit the appeal for one of the penalties using formal representations option on the council portal.

I just wanted to check the charge to pay will be locked in at £65 as I appealed within my 14 days? Or will that increase to the full price?

I received the below email:

“ Thank you for your representation, which has been allocated to the above Penalty Charge Notice. The case is now on hold until a response is sent to you either by email (if an email address has been provided) or by post.

Where a PCN is issued under the Traffic Management Act (TMA) 2004, the council will respond to your challenge within 56 days of the date it was received.

If you challenge your penalty charge notice within 14 days from the date of service of the notice, known as an informal challenge where the notice was placed on the vehicle or handed to the driver. Then it will then be held at the reduced rate and a further 14 days will be given, from the date of our correspondence, to pay at the reduced rate if your challenge is not accepted.

Any PCNs issued by a camera, such as bus lanes, no entry restrictions, motor vehicle restriction zones, pedestrian zones in pursuant to the Road Traffic Regulations Act 1984 (as amended), London Local Authorities 1996 and Transport for London Act 2003 will be responded to as soon as possible. There is no corresponding provision within the Acts relating to bus lane and moving traffic contraventions which require that an Enforcement Authority must respond within a statutory time limit.”

@cp8759 I was abled to submit the appeal for one of the penalties using formal representations option on the council portal.

I just wanted to check the charge to pay will be locked in at £65 as I appealed within my 14 days? Or will that increase to the full price?

@DIP181394 with the best will in the world, you should forget about the discount. Yes the council will reoffer it to dissuade you from appealing to the tribunal, but it's only at the tribunal that you will get a fair hearing, so frankly the discount is just a distraction.