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Title: Re: Camden pay-by-phone overstay - PCN issued as code 11 (parked without payment of the parking charge)
Post by: Incandescent on June 10, 2025, 12:14:10 am

Well done !

Title: Re: Camden pay-by-phone overstay - PCN issued as code 11 (parked without payment of the parking charge)
Post by: Grant Urismo on June 09, 2025, 10:51:48 pm

Congratulations, and congratulations!

Title: Re: Camden pay-by-phone overstay - PCN issued as code 11 (parked without payment of the parking charge)
Post by: NotFair on June 09, 2025, 10:03:02 pm

Just to update that was indeed cancelled. Thanks.

Title: Re: Camden pay-by-phone overstay - PCN issued as code 11 (parked without payment of the parking charge)
Post by: stamfordman on April 05, 2025, 05:34:57 pm

Congrats on baby.

I don't think there's anything in the no pay vs overstay codes - they are both low level and at some point a contravention of not paying is going to supersede an overstay.

But you can go further than mitigation as the baby is clearly circumstance beyond your control, which can be an accepted ground at the tribunal.

I would make light and polite of this and Camden would have to be very hard hearted not to cancel.

Post the PCN anyway.

Title: Camden pay-by-phone overstay - PCN issued as code 11 (parked without payment of the parking charge)
Post by: NotFair on April 05, 2025, 04:13:38 pm

Hi all,

I received a windscreen PCN whilst parked in a pay by phone bay, outside a hospital.
The parking was for 4 hours (roughly 0830 to 1230, which is the max allowed stay, with no return in 4 hours), and the fairly routine visit was not expected to be any longer than this.
Instead, to cut a long story short, my wife ended up delivering our baby unexpectedly that afternoon!

I received a PCN timed 1529, code 11, which is parking without payment. It's not the code for overstaying a session, as far as I am aware.

I am going to appeal citing mitigating circumstances - we were definitely not expecting to be suddenly admitted and baby delivered. But I was wondering whether it's also worth mentioning that the wrong code has been used?
The car overstayed the session; the contravention was not that the parking was never paid for to begin with.

Thanks