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Title: Re: BARNET - PCN - 50L PERFORMING A PROHIBITED TURN (NO LEFT TURN) - TILLING RD JUNCTION BRENTFIELD GARDENS (NW2)
Post by: cp8759 on October 19, 2025, 04:18:42 pm
Is it that Tilling Road is not a GLA Road or that it is and they have TfL's authority?
Barnet's position is that Tilling Road is only a GLA road up to the point where the red route clearway ends, and that because the junction is past that point the portion of Tilling Road where they enforce is not a GLA road.
Title: Re: BARNET - PCN - 50L PERFORMING A PROHIBITED TURN (NO LEFT TURN) - TILLING RD JUNCTION BRENTFIELD GARDENS (NW2)
Post by: H C Andersen on October 19, 2025, 04:15:31 pm
I'm still unclear what Barnet's position is.

Is it that Tilling Road is not a GLA Road or that it is and they have TfL's authority?

If they were confident of their position, then why leave matters as they are and constantly lose at adjudication by virtue of not adducing evidence even when asked explicitly by adjudicators.

More questions than answers, I'm afraid.
Title: Re: BARNET - PCN - 50L PERFORMING A PROHIBITED TURN (NO LEFT TURN) - TILLING RD JUNCTION BRENTFIELD GARDENS (NW2)
Post by: cp8759 on October 19, 2025, 03:45:47 pm
Noted, but the Order states what it states and has been extant for the best part of 20 years during which IMO it was open to Barnet and the GLA to amend. Absent such an amendment, IMO it would be improper for an adjudicator to put their own construction on to a provision which otherwise seems clear.
But both items 45 and 57 are clear once you look at the geography of the location.

What's the alternative? That Barnet and GLA have colluded to put their own spin on to an Order. FFS, where could this end and where might it leave the average driver who can read but is not party to these clandestine arrangements.
What clandestine arrangements? One could say that drivers should simply comply with the signage, which is not in itself an outrageous suggestion. The reality is that there are no clandestine arrangements, and neither Barnet nor TFL know what they're doing.

And to cap it, why have Barnet never adduced this reasoning themselves but simply slunk away when their position has been challenged?
Because they're thick?
Title: Re: BARNET - PCN - 50L PERFORMING A PROHIBITED TURN (NO LEFT TURN) - TILLING RD JUNCTION BRENTFIELD GARDENS (NW2)
Post by: H C Andersen on October 19, 2025, 02:09:45 pm
Noted, but the Order states what it states and has been extant for the best part of 20 years during which IMO it was open to Barnet and the GLA to amend. Absent such an amendment, IMO it would be improper for an adjudicator to put their own construction on to a provision which otherwise seems clear.

What's the alternative? That Barnet and GLA have colluded to put their own spin on to an Order. FFS, where could this end and where might it leave the average driver who can read but is not party to these clandestine arrangements.

And to cap it, why have Barnet never adduced this reasoning themselves but simply slunk away when their position has been challenged?
Title: Re: BARNET - PCN - 50L PERFORMING A PROHIBITED TURN (NO LEFT TURN) - TILLING RD JUNCTION BRENTFIELD GARDENS (NW2)
Post by: cp8759 on October 19, 2025, 12:37:22 pm
I thought so for a very long time, I even won some appears based on it being item 57, but based on some new information I received from a member of the public it cannot be item 57. It's badly written, but what it actually means is this (red text added):

57 NORTH CIRCULAR ROAD (A406) OFF SLIP ROAD, the south side from a point 3 metres south-west of the extended north easternmost building line of the Garden Court Hotel (which is on Tilling Road) to its roundabout junction with the unnamed M1 Motorway slip roads

The Garden Court Hotel is now the Holiday Inn London - Brent Cross by IHG (https://maps.app.goo.gl/3NDGDXkwdZmg7TqL6), and the northeastern most building line is highlighted in red in the image below, with the road referenced by item 57 highlighted in green:

(https://cdn.imgpile.com/f/nh9o1ci_xl.png)

I would add that the words "to its junction with Brentfield Gardens" in item 45 are open to interpretation at best, so this isn't something I would rely on unless the discount is lost anyway and there's nothing else to argue.
Title: Re: BARNET - PCN - 50L PERFORMING A PROHIBITED TURN (NO LEFT TURN) - TILLING RD JUNCTION BRENTFIELD GARDENS (NW2)
Post by: H C Andersen on October 19, 2025, 07:49:54 am


Well done.

IMO, the correct entry in the Schedule is 57 which refers to Tilling Rd.

As observed previously, it's item 57 of the second set of specified roads which misleadingly appear under a London Borough of Barking and Dagenham heading, but this poor piece of drafting cannot change the location of or responsibility for the roads.

Page 9

57 NORTH CIRCULAR ROAD (A406) OFF SLIP ROAD, the south side from a point 3
metres south-west of the extended north easternmost building line of Garden Court Hotel, Tilling Road to its roundabout junction with the unnamed M1 Motorway slip roads


It seems to me that the prohibition refers to the road being turned from, not the road being turned into, and this would seem to be confirmed by the authority's TMO, therefore I believe that item 57 page 9 is the applicable reference. Either way, the authority is in a complete state of denial hence my suggestion to the OP in the current thread on this location to write to the Chief Exec and put an end to this apparent abuse of power.
Title: Re: BARNET - PCN - 50L PERFORMING A PROHIBITED TURN (NO LEFT TURN) - TILLING RD JUNCTION BRENTFIELD GARDENS (NW2)
Post by: cp8759 on October 19, 2025, 01:51:17 am
Outcome (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nQlu0kbGwEvoOIadtk58IlkCRoEcDLMb/view).
Title: Re: BARNET - PCN - 50L PERFORMING A PROHIBITED TURN (NO LEFT TURN) - TILLING RD JUNCTION BRENTFIELD GARDENS (NW2)
Post by: cp8759 on February 07, 2025, 01:55:26 pm
I've sent you a PM.
Title: Re: BARNET - PCN - 50L PERFORMING A PROHIBITED TURN (NO LEFT TURN) - TILLING RD JUNCTION BRENTFIELD GARDENS (NW2)
Post by: j41sal on February 05, 2025, 08:59:55 pm
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Title: Re: BARNET - PCN - 50L PERFORMING A PROHIBITED TURN (NO LEFT TURN) - TILLING RD JUNCTION BRENTFIELD GARDENS (NW2)
Post by: j41sal on February 04, 2025, 09:20:25 pm
@j41sal I'm yet to lose an appeal at this location. Put in a representation via the council website as follows:

Dear London Borough of Barnet,

There was no contravention of a prescribed order, and the penalty demanded on the PCN exceeds the amount due in the circumstances of the case.

Yours faithfully,


Take a date & timestamped screenshot of the confirmation page and let us know when you get the rejection.


Received  NOR as attached (https://i.ibb.co/B5yxxV0L/Cam-Scanner-02-01-2025-10-51.jpg) (https://ibb.co/wFSXXN5y)
Title: Re: BARNET - PCN - 50L PERFORMING A PROHIBITED TURN (NO LEFT TURN) - TILLING RD JUNCTION BRENTFIELD GARDENS (NW2)
Post by: j41sal on February 04, 2025, 09:19:57 pm
Have posted the rejection above
Title: Re: BARNET - PCN - 50L PERFORMING A PROHIBITED TURN (NO LEFT TURN) - TILLING RD JUNCTION BRENTFIELD GARDENS (NW2)
Post by: John U.K. on February 04, 2025, 09:16:41 pm
Please post all sides of the NoR here, redacting only yr name & address.
Title: Re: BARNET - PCN - 50L PERFORMING A PROHIBITED TURN (NO LEFT TURN) - TILLING RD JUNCTION BRENTFIELD GARDENS (NW2)
Post by: j41sal on February 04, 2025, 08:41:46 pm
Hi Cp8759

Have recieved the notice of rejection
Title: Re: BARNET - PCN - 50L PERFORMING A PROHIBITED TURN (NO LEFT TURN) - TILLING RD JUNCTION BRENTFIELD GARDENS (NW2)
Post by: j41sal on February 01, 2025, 11:01:38 am
@j41sal I'm yet to lose an appeal at this location. Put in a representation via the council website as follows:

Dear London Borough of Barnet,

There was no contravention of a prescribed order, and the penalty demanded on the PCN exceeds the amount due in the circumstances of the case.

Yours faithfully,


Take a date & timestamped screenshot of the confirmation page and let us know when you get the rejection.


Received  NTO as attached (https://i.ibb.co/B5yxxV0L/Cam-Scanner-02-01-2025-10-51.jpg) (https://ibb.co/wFSXXN5y)

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Title: Re: BARNET - PCN - 50L PERFORMING A PROHIBITED TURN (NO LEFT TURN) - TILLING RD JUNCTION BRENTFIELD GARDENS (NW2)
Post by: j41sal on February 01, 2025, 10:55:58 am
Recieved NTO as attached

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Title: Re: BARNET - PCN - 50L PERFORMING A PROHIBITED TURN (NO LEFT TURN) - TILLING RD JUNCTION BRENTFIELD GARDENS (NW2)
Post by: j41sal on January 10, 2025, 04:39:15 pm
Thank you Cp8759! great to hear the success rate at this location.

will update once I receive the rejection


thank you once again !
Title: Re: BARNET - PCN - 50L PERFORMING A PROHIBITED TURN (NO LEFT TURN) - TILLING RD JUNCTION BRENTFIELD GARDENS (NW2)
Post by: cp8759 on January 10, 2025, 04:12:09 pm
@j41sal I'm yet to lose an appeal at this location. Put in a representation via the council website as follows:

Dear London Borough of Barnet,

There was no contravention of a prescribed order, and the penalty demanded on the PCN exceeds the amount due in the circumstances of the case.

Yours faithfully,


Take a date & timestamped screenshot of the confirmation page and let us know when you get the rejection.
Title: BARNET - PCN - 50L PERFORMING A PROHIBITED TURN (NO LEFT TURN) - TILLING RD JUNCTION BRENTFIELD GARDENS (NW2)
Post by: j41sal on January 10, 2025, 12:59:49 pm
Hi all

As many others I received this PCN from this location and thought I'd have a look here before paying up the £65 - and have seen this location has been won by cp8759 many times based on the GLA road consent. Is this still the case the currently.

thank you all !PCN (https://ibb.co/25jr4rs)


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