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Hi,

My wife was following a van into a yellow box junction. The traffic was flowing freely.
the van stopped after clearing the junction, so she was caught inside the junction.
What she couldn't see was a car 2 in front of the van on the inside of a bus.
On the video evidence, the car has stopped although there looks to be room for it to easily pass the bus.
The upshot is a pcn for stopping in the junction.
You can see this on
lewisham.gov.uk/myservices/parking
Then challenge a pcn

PCN (ticket ref) ZY09564758
VRN GF63ODM

Although she is clearly in the yellow box, is it worth appealing this PCN?

Today I received a rejection letter from Bromley council for the formal appeal.
As in the previous appeals they have ignored my point of dropping off a passenger who was awaiting a knee op and had difficulty walking.  They have said that the concession for unloading only applies if you have heavy or bulky goods and that if they can be carried by hand the concession does not apply. They are now asking for £130 within 28 days or I can appeal to the parking adjudicator.

Anyone with any advice for formal challenge ?

Hi,
I have now received the NTO, 3 pages attached.
I have written the formal appeal as follows -

This is my formal challenge to your PCN.

As I said in my previous appeal, I was unloading the car after shopping.

Your reply " stopping for a short period of time, even just a few minutes to park outside of your home, is not permitted" is incorrect.

You have failed to consider the points I made, and nor did I stop to park.

My partner, who is the owner of the car was with me and at the time she had difficulty walking as she was awaiting knee surgery (she had this on Feb 15th). She was also recovering from a gallbladder op which she had 2 weeks previously, so no way was I going to search for a parking bay to unload the shopping and make her walk up to 60 yards.

Also the fact that you waited nearly 3 months to reply to my informal appeal is out of order.

I  have since revisited your informal appeal process and there are now options to select a reason to challenge the PCN  by stating



I was loading/unloading at the time

I was picking up/dropping off a passenger



These options weren't listed when I sent my informal appeal.


Yours sincerely.


Any replies on whether this appeal would work?

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only the name and address and the penalty chaarge number and location. There is no traffic code.

Sorry, it was the time of contravention and the time seen was exactly the same.
From the images shown, there was less than a minute from the first picture taken and the pcn attached to the car.
From reading other threads, it seems that the only way of getting a n appeal accepted is by pointing out a technical error - is this true?

There is a yellow line on the road outside my house with parking restrictions.
On December 14th, I returned home from shopping and took some bags into the house.
I went back outside to move the car, literally 3 minutes later and a warden had already put a ticket on my windscreen.
He was walking and could have even seen me get out of the car with my shopping because he had walked 60 yards to my car.
The ticket said the car was seen at 12.38 and was issued at 12.38.
I appealed against this PCN the next day as I believe he should have waited at least a few minutes before issuing a ticket.
I heard nothing until last week, March 14, nearly 3 months later, I received a letter of rejection.
I no longer have the ticket as I thought there was a time limit for them to reply to my appeal.
They have told me if I want to make a formal appeal I will have to wait for a Notice to Owner (NtO).

Are they allowed to issue a ticket without waiting even a minute?