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Live cases legal advice => Civil penalty charge notices (Councils, TFL and so on) => Topic started by: SergeantYT on June 03, 2025, 07:43:27 pm

Title: Re: Newham - Abercrombie road - parking ticket
Post by: Incandescent on June 03, 2025, 10:24:10 pm
Indeed it used to be private, because GSV March 2021, (the latest view), shows the private parking signs : -
https://maps.app.goo.gl/gFyK1zW3jkAjkPDi8

Clearly now subject to council enforcement, but they seem to have been totally dozy when signing it. The double-yellow lines between your bay and the next are your Get-Out-Of-Jail-Free card, as the bay is now separated from the next one, so needs a sign, and as SFM says, there is a pole there for a sign, but no sign on it.

However, such is the venality and rapacity of councils nowadays, they will refuse any informal challenge, and probably reps to a Notice to Owner as well. So you must be prepared to stand your ground, and take them to London Tribunals.

I see that when it was private, the small kerb square with a tree that is separating the two bays had no yellow lines; Newham have added them.
Title: Re: Newham - Abercrombie road - parking ticket
Post by: stamfordman on June 03, 2025, 10:06:10 pm
The CEO has tried hard to fit you up but the first pic which is yours shows double yellows between bays. This used to be a private development and Newham is often slapdash with signage but you can see a pole where a sign should be.

Your pic:

(https://i.ibb.co/v6LL1frr/IMG-8571.jpg)

Council pics:

(https://i.ibb.co/LdbM3dZ0/n4.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/Pv906zz1/n3.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/TBPWLswV/n2.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/DH05qvpn/n1.jpg)
Title: Newham - Abercrombie road - parking ticket
Post by: SergeantYT on June 03, 2025, 07:43:27 pm
Hi, I got a pcn when I parked in this spot with no sign on it. The parking bay in question with no sign can hold 2 cars, the other bays next to it had signs but not the one where I parked in. I have attached the pcn and the photos of the proof. I have also attached a photo of the parking spot without my car in it from a further view so you can see the whole parking bays and signs. Please advise on how I can get this pcn cancelled.

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