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Well, sorry to be the bringer of bad news, but the double-yellow lines are sufficient on their own to define the restriction of No Parking 24x7. DYLs apply to the whole road and that includes footways and verges up to the property line. Whether you were causing an obstruction is totally irrelevant. We see lots of cases where motorists park off the carriageway where there are yellow lines and are shocked at getting a PCN. There may be a technical appeal argument based on council mismanagement of the enforcement process, or fatal errors on the PCN itself. Please therefore post all pages of the PCN for inspection.

Thanks for your reply.

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I am interested about the extent of the property that is applicable. In this case the road is alongside a field, so presumably you can't get a ticket for parking on the field?

Also the sign that is supposed to say no parking on the verges is snapped in half and is not seen until you carry on down the road for 30m or so. I posteda link above to this.

The sign is not a traffic sign, the double-yellow lines are enough on their own. There's nothing to stop you submitting representations of course. You have the right in law to take the council all the way to adjudication but I don't think you would win, that's all.

HOwever, wait a bit and see what others say, but don't lose any deadlines on the PCN.

Doesn’t matter.

The law changed a few years ago. The days of people getting out of penalty charges because the lines are slightly damaged or T bars are missing are long gone.

If the average person would look at them and think “those are two yellow lines” then they’re enforceable, even if they’re faded.

It’s called Substantial Compliance.