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Live cases legal advice => Civil penalty charge notices (Councils, TFL and so on) => Topic started by: cutmle on July 23, 2025, 11:31:23 pm

Title: Re: Kingston-upon-Thames - Fairfield Road - 12r Parked in a residents parking place without a valid permit
Post by: cutmle on July 25, 2025, 10:38:34 pm

Agreed, lesson learnt.

But I'm not alone: https://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/9332840.kingstons-most-lucrative-street-for-parking-fines-rakes-in-more-than-100000-a-year/ (https://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/9332840.kingstons-most-lucrative-street-for-parking-fines-rakes-in-more-than-100000-a-year/)

Title: Re: Kingston-upon-Thames - Fairfield Road - 12r Parked in a residents parking place without a valid permit
Post by: Incandescent on July 24, 2025, 11:04:57 am

Me neither.

Basically, in London, one needs to read a parking sign from top to bottom, as restrictions are all over the place and one can get caught out if the full sign is not read.

Title: Re: Kingston-upon-Thames - Fairfield Road - 12r Parked in a residents parking place without a valid permit
Post by: stamfordman on July 24, 2025, 12:54:24 am

I can't see anything to go on. Why did you park there?

Title: Kingston-upon-Thames - Fairfield Road - 12r Parked in a residents parking place without a valid permit
Post by: cutmle on July 23, 2025, 11:31:23 pm

Hi All,

Not particularly hopeful here but I have fallen victim to one of Kingston's most lucrative PCN spots - Fairfeld Road.

Usually diligent with signs but failed to read the text at the base of the sign stating permit only after 6:30pm.

(https://i.imgur.com/ahVyrWw.jpeg)

(https://i.imgur.com/WH1ysyv.jpeg)
(https://i.imgur.com/KNs2JVi.jpeg)
(https://i.imgur.com/BExTm92.jpeg)


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Interestingly the Google Maps waypoint on the evidence provided (see related image) is in the wrong place by quite a distance.

Would there be any chance of a procedural impropriety or other grounds of appeal here? Or best to pay.

Thank you.