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Live cases legal advice => Civil penalty charge notices (Councils, TFL and so on) => Topic started by: Maupassant10 on September 04, 2024, 11:03:22 pm

Title: Re: Manchester City Council - Code 01 Parked in a restricted street during prescribed hours - Double Yellow On Pym Stree
Post by: H C Andersen on September 05, 2024, 09:10:12 am

Full PCN pl, both sides.

Title: Re: Manchester City Council - Code 01 Parked in a restricted street during prescribed hours - Double Yellow On Pym Stree
Post by: Incandescent on September 04, 2024, 11:48:23 pm

The Traffic Management Act 2004 introduced powers that allow an enforcing authority to serve a postal PCN when a PCN was in course of preparation, but the driver returned and drove off before the PCN could be served at the roadside. This means that the PCN has been correctly served IMHO.

So, looking at the actual alleged contravention, would your claim of an emergency in having urgently to stop for a wee-wee, and thus park on the double-yellow lines. Well, I don't think this would be a runner, unless you can show some medical evidence of a medical waterworks problem. However see what others say.

Title: Manchester City Council - Code 01 Parked in a restricted street during prescribed hours - Double Yellow On Pym Street
Post by: Maupassant10 on September 04, 2024, 11:03:22 pm

Good evening to you all

This is my first post here, thank you in advance for your help :)

As the title suggests I made an emergency stop on Pym Street, M40, in order to relieve myself in a shop just opposite where I stopped but on my way out I had the unfortunate experience of running into the warderners who appeared to have just arrived, they neither spoke to me nor signalled me to stop in order to give me the PCN so I was unaware that they had recorded the “offence” given that I had stopped for less than 3 minutes. I have attached the photos of the wardern pictures and the NTO which I received to my great surprise today. It's my first fine and I wish I didn't have to pay it, 2 minutes that cost me 3 and a half hours of work... The 4 photos, all taken at 14:13 and 14:14, show that I was gone in less than a minute, which was underlined in the fine because I was already gone when they recorded the fine. I'm sure there's a way to contest this?

https://imgur.com/a/BgppCCG