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You should definitely request the video. this will put the PCN on hold for about two weeks and give more time for us to investigate. Be aware that TfL will restart the enforcement clock then, even if you haven't received the DVD, so you must make a note in your diary.

Did you drop the passenger off at the location ? This activity is called "board/alight passengers" and is normally an exempt event, but I'm not sure with Red Route bays. Hopefully somebody can clarify.

I requested the video yesterday. In the meantime, has anyone got any tips please. Would appreciate any help.

Thanks

We need to know exactly what the covered-up sign in GSV says.  Please also tell us exactly on GSV where you parked.

So the similar sign shows the Red Route restriction times are  8,00am to 7.00pm, PCN time 18.24, so within the times. Loading allowed 20 minutes, and Blue Badge parking 3 hours. You were dropping off a passenger which may be an exemption, but I'm not sufficiently up-to-speed on that aspect of Red Route bays.
Hopefully somebody can tell us, but it's holiday season at the moment.  I had a look on TfL's web site and even they don't tell you !

I wouldn't say anything which is not supported by the video which you've not posted, presumably not received. At present the discount period has ended and the 28-day reps period ends 22 Aug.

TfL's 'Rules of Red Route' (https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/driving/red-routes/rules-of-red-routes/loading-for-the-public) states:


What you shouldn't do
Stop in the bay without loading or unloading - the bay is not for waiting or parking
Use the bay outside of the hours shown on the sign or for longer than permitted
Use the bay to park or go shopping
Use the bay to pick up and drop off passengers

As an aside, I don't understand these(it's not the only one) bays. The RR prohibition before the bay is 24/7, the prohibition after the bay is 24/7 and yet within the bay is Mon-Sat 8am-7pm. Which means that outside these hours there's no RR prohibition..which means that the road then becomes can't stop, can stop, can't stop, can stop etc....  Absent seeing the traffic order - which you wouldn't see pre-adjudication- I can't look at its contents, unless someone has a copy of this(I doubt this is the first time this location has appeared here!).

Then IMO you should contact them to get confirmation in writing that the 28-day clock has been stopped(unless you already have this).

7 Aug plus 2 weeks is 21st: deadline for reps is 22nd.

This is the same as my case which was accepted and not sent to tribunal

https://www.ftla.uk/civil-penalty-charge-notices-(councils-tfl-and-so-on)/tfl-code-46-stopped-where-prohibited-os-2-york-way-n1/

@Arashk998 you don't want to end up with a charge certificate so for now make a representation as follows:



Send this ASAP via https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/driving/challenge-a-pcn and make sure to take a screenshot of the confirmation page.

In the meantime one argument to keep for the tribunal might be found in the traffic order, which is The GLA Roads and GLA Side Roads (Islington) Red Route Consolidation Traffic Order 2008. The entry for this bay is at the top of page 65:


Number 14 York Way no longer exists, there is only a single premises taken up by Nandos that is known as 12 to 16, so the common boundary of 12 and 14 cannot possibly exist. This sort of thing has won before, for instance in Louis Knight-Webb v Transport for London (2230260442, 8 July 2023) and Adrian Smith v Transport for London (2230491729, 24 January 2024), but that can only be deployed at the tribunal once we know for sure what traffic order TFL is relying on.

However one advantage of TFL PCNs is that if a notice of rejection is issued reoffering the discount, then as long as you appeal immediately (so that TFL gets the notification of a hearing while the discount has not yet expired) then TFL will accept the discount even if you lose the appeal, so you effectively have nothing to lose in taking it all the way.