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Live cases legal advice => Civil penalty charge notices (Councils, TFL and so on) => Topic started by: fahmed17 on June 01, 2026, 12:55:00 pm

Title: Re: Tower Hamlets, Code 51 Failing to comply with a no entry restriction, Rushmead, U turn into a one way street
Post by: stamfordman on June 01, 2026, 02:39:32 pm
The video does show you stopping and starting to reverse and it doesn't look like you were barely past the signs if at all.

Reversing after passing the signs isn't a defence but an adjudicator may well agree you committed no contravention here.

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Title: Re: Tower Hamlets, Code 51 Failing to comply with a no entry restriction, Rushmead, U turn into a one way street
Post by: fahmed17 on June 01, 2026, 02:25:21 pm
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Title: Re: Tower Hamlets, Code 51 Failing to comply with a no entry restriction, Rushmead, U turn into a one way street
Post by: stamfordman on June 01, 2026, 01:49:24 pm
Post the PCN.
Title: Tower Hamlets, Code 51 Failing to comply with a no entry restriction, Rushmead, U turn into a one way street
Post by: fahmed17 on June 01, 2026, 12:55:00 pm
I received a PCN recently date of notice 26/05/2026 for 'failing to comply with a no entry restriction'. I was driving down Rushmead and didn't realise it was one way (last time i went into that road there was works being done and they had lifted the one way restrictions) and made a U turn into the road.I drove into Florida street from Rushmead turning right and then realised it was a dead end. The space was too narrow for a U turn in Florida street and I turned into Rushmead
(https://maps.app.goo.gl/6FHkCAyChDj45XYp8)
https://maps.app.goo.gl/6FHkCAyChDj45XYp8 (https://maps.app.goo.gl/6FHkCAyChDj45XYp8)

I did not go the whole way down the street, as I was turning I noticed the no entry sign and reversed back out and went the correct way. Conveniently the video they sent cuts off just as I start reversing. The second image is as far as I went into the road before I started reversing.


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Do I have a chance if I appeal or should accept I messed up and pay the fine?