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What was the purpose of parking there. Camden does sometimes use discretion in the green zone, especially near the boundary and if there is good mitigation.

I drove to the Great Ormond Street Hospital with my disabled child. After dropping off her and her mum at GOSH (on a street - no parking there), I had to park somewhere and rush back to her appointment. As unusual as it sounds, this was the first empty parking bay I spotted after 10-15 minutes of driving around the hospital.

I hope this will be accepted.

The contravention is correct so you can't argue for a wrong contravention (code 19 would only be applicable anyway for an expired permit). No details on the PCN can be changed by the way - only challenged if wrong.

Thanks for explaining.

This one may be hopeless: 12R in Camden. But maybe?

Yesterday I parked on a Blue Badge in a permit-only residents' bay in what it turned out to be the Camden Green Zone:

Google Maps

I know my ignorance of the zone borders is poor defence. Still, it didn't occur to me that the Green Zone stretches so far from Bloomsbury centre. To be honest, I spent 15 minutes driving around and looking for a parking space when travelling with my disabled child to the Great Ormond Street hospital, and this was the nearest place I could find.

PCN was issued promptly, within minutes of leaving the car:

View the PCN

Are there any grounds for a challenge? Or at least for having the contravention code changed to 19R, which entails a lower penalty, given that a Blue Badge was displayed?

Big thanks in advance.

This is somehow weird.

My partner followed her memory and didn't spot a no-turn traffic sign in the dark. I mean, she followed her memory, because left turn was allowed there for a long time until Wickes was sold to Lidl a few years ago. Here is the layout in 2021:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/p6rMxxijT19Vzimj6

Today, however, vehicles leaving the Lidl car park aren't supposed to turn left into Gordon Road:



It may be because Gordon Road is blocked for vehicular traffic further down, next to house no. 29; although it remains a two-way road up to there.

But look at the placement of the no-left-turn sign! It's in front, behind the crossing, not even on the road that it applies to. The way I'm reading the traffic signs regulations and the common sense, the sign should be placed before the crossing, right where the prohibition starts, like here:



Is a road marking alone enforceable, especially when much smaller than the statutory dimensions and without an accompanying traffic sign? Never mind that it's situated on private land.

I appealed based on the above:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1mnPiUNlPHiKIqRdd_D1NFQJYCIin35P7

...and today we received a rejection notice:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ONdV_Pj8Wc4SNJD3cJx1q-A0XavahMz1

Does it make sense to appeal to the adjudicator?

Grateful for any advice.

Hello,

First time here

A street in Kingston was to be used for filming over two days, and our council blocked "13 pay-and-display parking spaces alongside the railway" for the filming crew. Notices were put up along the road two weeks in advance (see photo no. 1), and indeed the street was nearly empty on the day, even as the film crew failed do turn up.

Now, even as the council has legislated "13 parking spaces", the road markings there don't show any spaces. Not a single one. If anything, there are three veeeery long parking bays, each able to accommodate 6-10 vehicles. See photos no. 2 and 3.

Location: https://maps.app.goo.gl/uvBa7oSdjwLMf2nA9

One can wonder how does the council expect the 13 imaginary spaces to be counted (and from which end of the road).

Now, I received a PCN for "parking in a suspended bay or space".

I've appealed, explaining that there're no delineated parking spaces in that location, and so it's impossible to count thirteen of them even with best intentions, however my appeal was rejected (photo no. 4). As is the local tradition, council's letter included a fair amount of canned responses to questions that weren't asked.

Now, I wonder whether the council has a right to pursue a driver for breaching an order that used wording so vague as to be next to impossible to understand. Also, does "parking space" have to be designated, or "13 parking spaces" can be simply an estimate amount of space taken by 13 average vehicles? What's the law here? What should I do?

Thanks,
Thor

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