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Live cases legal advice => Civil penalty charge notices (Councils, TFL and so on) => Topic started by: ParkingPatewayo! on July 21, 2025, 09:00:22 pm
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Yes - the reasons for having to straddle the bay are set out in my representations which you can find in the Google file. The simple reasons was that there was no room on the road to repack and lots of cars were asked to move to make way for the emergency services. The road remained blocked off for the rest of the evening and I was unable to move my car. By the time I returned home the following morning, the PCN had been issued.
I didn't receive the original notice to owner. Merton said they issued it on 14 January and sent it by first class post. I challenged this and this was accepted on 2 June where they re offered me the opportunity to settle the charge at the lower amount and reissued the Notice to Owner. This was reissued on 3 June 2025.
The first informal reps were made on 20 September 2024. My second set of reps were made on 7 June 2025.
The rejection is dated 11 July 2025.
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I think SFM covers the possibilities, but it is clearly a no-brainer to take them to London Tribunals, because they have not re-offered the discount. They seem to have totally ignored your reps mentioning the chaos subdequent to the bus accident. Yes, this is in mitigation, but it still has to be considered; they have not done so.
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Their pics do show you straddling a pay and a permit bay - is there any reason you couldn't fit in the pay bay?
They may not be able to produce an order specifying parking in marked on-street bays.
What date is the notice to owner
What date did you make reps
What date is the rejection
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Hello
Me again.
This is a PCN from 2024 I have made informal representations on and also appealed via the Council. My appeal has been rejected twice by Merton.
I now wish to make representations to the Tribunal and would appreciate your views if there are any other points that I should make.
The basic background is that my car was parked outside the bay markings. The primary reason for this is that a bus had crashed at the end of the road and the road was blocked off by the emergency services.
The road is a cul-de-sac and so there was no where else to park and no way to move my car to another road. The parking situation is already limited as 6 of the bays in the road are reserved only for pay and display vehicles.
There is also a Private Members Club on the Road and so parking is extremely limited. Anyone who was parked in the area of the bus was asked to move their cars to allow for the emergency services to attend the scene. From memory there were 3-4 police cars, 2 fire engines and 3 ambulances.
Links to my previous representations and responses from Merton are attached here:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1k6kI4UO8Io15pZA2ZkbdWHM3tIEKce8H?usp=sharing
Thanks in advance.