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Hello

Me again.

This is a PCN from 2024  I have made informal representations on and also appealed via the Council. My appeal has been rejected twice by Merton.

 I now wish to make representations to the Tribunal and would appreciate your views if there are any other points that I should make.

The basic background is that my car was parked outside the bay markings. The primary reason for this is that a bus had crashed at the end of the road and the road was blocked off by the emergency services.

The road is a cul-de-sac and so there was no where else to park and no way to move my car to another road. The parking situation is already limited as 6 of the bays in the road are reserved only for pay and display vehicles.

There is also a Private Members Club on the Road and so parking is extremely limited. Anyone who was parked in the area of the bus was asked to move their cars to allow for the emergency services to attend the scene. From memory there were 3-4 police cars, 2 fire engines and 3 ambulances.

Links to my previous representations and responses from Merton are attached here:



Thanks in advance.

I think SFM covers the possibilities, but it is clearly a no-brainer to take them to London Tribunals, because they have not re-offered the discount. They seem to have totally ignored your reps mentioning the chaos subdequent to the bus accident. Yes, this is in mitigation, but it still has to be considered; they have not done so.

In case this helps anyone, I took my case to Tribunal and won on the grounds that the council had used the incorrect contravention code and the ticket was invalid.