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Live cases legal advice => Civil penalty charge notices (Councils, TFL and so on) => Topic started by: dakang on October 25, 2023, 10:26:42 am

Title: Re: 52M failing to comply with a prohibition on motor vehicles -Station Road Barking
Post by: cp8759 on October 29, 2023, 12:20:15 am
You went past the signs twice so by the letter of the law there are two contraventions.

However your best bet IMO is to make a plea for discretion requesting that they allow you to pay one PCN at the discounted rate. This is the only scenario where I'd suggest sending a letter in the post, because if they only log it against one of the PCNs you then get the other one cancelled based on a failure to consider.

Also if you have any meaningful mitigation please tell us now.

Lastly please re-post the remaining pages of the PCN, for some reason they don't load up. I suggest you just upload them to your google drive folder and let us know when that's been done.
Title: Re: 52M failing to comply with a prohibition on motor vehicles -Station Road Barking
Post by: roythebus on October 25, 2023, 01:11:01 pm
Station Parade Barking is a well-known cash cow for the council. If you approach from the roundabout end there's a couple of signs prohibiting motor vehicles except buses. From the other end the signs are each side of the road. I've not been round there for a few months so signs may have been improved since then, but they were not particularly outstanding.

I'd say there should only be 1 pcn as there's only one offence if you've been in and done a U turn.
Title: Re: 52M failing to comply with a prohibition on motor vehicles -Station Road Barking
Post by: dakang on October 25, 2023, 10:58:47 am
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Title: Re: 52M failing to comply with a prohibition on motor vehicles -Station Road Barking
Post by: John U.K. on October 25, 2023, 10:36:57 am
Please post the remainder of one  (assuming they're identical) of the PCNs.
Title: 52M failing to comply with a prohibition on motor vehicles -Station Road Barking
Post by: dakang on October 25, 2023, 10:26:42 am
Hello,

I have just recieved 2 PCN notices for failing to comply with a prohibition minutes apart. (10:58 and 11:01)

This was my first time travelled to Barking. I had to drop off my partner at the station and then had to do a uturn . i can honeslty say that i was not aware of any signs i could see visible that woud have warned me before that there was no through access to longbridge road.

i woud appreciate if any experts out there think i have a case as reading through some cases this seems to be the case where the drivers seem to miss the signage or are not warned beforehand turning into station parade.

i have 14 days from the 20/10/23 to make a representation and would apprecate any help.

below are the PCN and video links. Thank you in advance,

PCN 1:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1QH6EvPj53o1mJtUr-PbHONMYSDltpvzE?usp=sharing
PCN 2 :
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/13Gd8_TVX-s9uwDh5nwblvbFv6LG2xTe3?usp=sharing

Street View:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/XMX4NCAnDqWWkdE68

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