Proposed draft representations for Redbridge. You've still got another week before the discount expires so no need to rush. Give others a chance to chip in. Credit to cp8759 for the wording on vague location, nicked from another Ilford Lane case.
Dear London Borough of Redbridge,
I challenge liability on the ground that the penalty charge notice ('PCN') does not adequately particularise the alleged wrongdoing. The location of the alleged contravention is given as "Ilford Lane", the name of the road junction is not given. I have looked online and I can see that Ilford Lane is over a mile long and has some 35 junctions, but I cannot find any box junction markings so it seems the box markings have been painted since the Google Street View car last drove down this road.
As the notice does not allow me to understand where it is that the contravention is alleged to have taken place, the notice does not adequately specify the grounds on which you believe the penalty is payable, I refer you to the decision of adjudicator Carl Teper in Saijal Patel v London Borough of Brent (2160240742, 8 August 2016) and adjudicator Andrew Harman in Sandra Grauzyte v London Borough of Redbridge (2230201115, 31 May 2023).
Notwithstanding the issue with the vagueness of the location in the PCN, the video footage shows that no contravention has taken place in any case. Under the relevant regulations a contravention only takes place if a person causes a vehicle to enter the box junction so that the vehicle has to stop within the box junction due to the presence of stationary vehicles. The footage shows a large space beyond the box junction which would be sufficient to accommodate my vehicle. As such my vehicle was not forced to stop where it did by stationary vehicles and it follows that no contravention took place.
It follows that the notice must be cancelled.
I'd further point out that if the PCN did include sufficient information to identify the actual junction involved I would be able to undertake a precise distance analysis of the space involved as compared with the length of my car to further back up the fact no contravention took place. Alas this is not feasible given the dozens of potential junctions in scope along Ilford Lane.
