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Speeding and other criminal offences / Re: SJP for 73 in a temp 30 zone
« on: March 28, 2026, 11:27:37 am »
Has anybody checked that there was a Traffic Regulation Order in place for the temporary limit?
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Civil penalty charge notices (Councils, TFL and so on) / Re: Ealing PCN 53J - Failing to comply with a restriction on vehicles entering a pedestrian zone - Mansell Road
« on: March 07, 2026, 02:13:02 pm »Assuming it hasn't been taken down since July 2024, you would have passed the advance signage here: https://maps.app.goo.gl/V5jdUTy8i6yyNfc7A
I did not notice any advance signage elsewhere.
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Civil penalty charge notices (Councils, TFL and so on) / Re: Yellow box 31j Regents Park Road
« on: March 04, 2026, 10:34:48 pm »Surprised to receive PCN for 'entering and stopping' in yellow box at junction with Tillingbourne Gardens.Not sure I'm following you. It is a junction of 2 roads - Tillingbourne Gardens and Regents Park Road (assuming you mean here).
I've seen that a yellow box should be at a junction of 2 or more roads but this is a single road only.
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Civil penalty charge notices (Councils, TFL and so on) / Re: PCN-Camden-Failing to comply with a one-way restriction
« on: February 20, 2026, 08:04:03 pm »
There is a one-way sign visible in the video (different from the signage in 2024) - I'm not sure whether that alone is sufficient but it does suggest the restriction still applies.
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Civil penalty charge notices (Councils, TFL and so on) / Re: Islington Council – Code 62 parked with wheels on footpath – Liverpool Road [Zone B] – PCN IZ38803752
« on: February 18, 2026, 10:10:05 pm »
The bulk of the car might be on private land (not entirely sure of the status of that lane) but I expect the whole of the pavement of Liverpool Road is adopted highway and the front of the car looks to be overhanging that.
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Civil penalty charge notices (Councils, TFL and so on) / Re: Parking on grass - PCN
« on: February 08, 2026, 03:19:30 pm »But where is the private property boundary here?Probably at the tree line. I think it reasonably obvious that you're on the road verge, not somebody else's grass.
Or to put it another way, if you think parking there is permitted, what additional steps do you think the highways authority would have to take to make parking on the verge illegal?
(I'll defer to others on whether there is something irregular about the PCN or otherwise which may save you, but I don't think "I wasn't on the road" is going to work here)
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Civil penalty charge notices (Councils, TFL and so on) / Re: Parking on grass - PCN
« on: February 08, 2026, 02:18:55 pm »
Looks like the verge to me. I don't see a likely defence.
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Civil penalty charge notices (Councils, TFL and so on) / Re: 52M - Failing to comply with a prohibition on certain types of vehicle (m) motor vehicles
« on: February 03, 2026, 11:49:11 pm »I feel there was no contravention, since the sign when entering the road states "Controlled Zone V Mon-Fri 9am-5pm". The alleged contravention was on 24/01/2026 at 14.18, which was a Saturday. Furthermore, I found this: https://www.lbhf.gov.uk/news/2026/01/trial-make-wormholt-safer-and-quieterYou can read the (current) signage on the video - it's no motor vehicles at any time, except taxis and permit holders.
It says "A new neighbourhood improvement trial in the Wormholt area is being enforced with PCN fines from 5 January. It will continue to cut congestion and pollution. Out-of-borough motorists have received warning notices about the scheme since 5 November."
I assume I am one of the out of Borough motorists? ; but there is no signage to this effect.
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Speeding and other criminal offences / Re: M50 Bow Lane - speeding exceeding 70mph
« on: February 03, 2026, 12:29:06 am »Presumably because it's a cheaper way of encouraging people to slow down than having the cameras everywhere.There was a popular misconception many years ago, that there was a requirement for speed cameras to be conspicuous in order for the speeding offence to be prosecuted. This was largely due to Tony Blair saying that that was going to be the case. Surprisingly enough, it was a big fat lie.
What the rules actually were, before they were rescinded many years ago, at first glance at least, that in order for the safety camera partnerships to be able to retain the income from the fixed penalties (and return any surplus they hadn't managed to fiddle to the exchequer), 85% of enforcement sites had to meet the conspicuity requirements. This had no bearing whatsoever on the admissibility of the evidence, it was just a rule regarding keeping the money. Except that the rules were enforced by the safety camera partnerships themselves - if they became aware that they were not complying with the rules, they had the power to report themselves to themselves and then decide whether or not they still ought to keep the money.
I just question why the Constabularies bother with the signage in the first place if it is not required. The whole 165 miles of my journey has Speed camera warnings/in operation signs apart from the said section of the M50.
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Speeding and other criminal offences / Re: 97 on M40 but written evidence is partly incorrect
« on: January 25, 2026, 08:01:35 pm »So would you advise putting a shortened version of these descrepancies in my mitigation if I were to plead guiltyNone of them seem like mitigation - they aren't relevant to your culpability or what your sentence ought to be. Mitigation is e.g. it being your first offence, you being distracted for some unusual but good reason (rushing to a hospital bedside etc), you need licence for work/family etc.
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Civil penalty charge notices (Councils, TFL and so on) / Re: Oxford City Council/Oxford Direct Services, Excess Parking Notice, Gloucester Green car park
« on: January 17, 2026, 12:54:23 pm »
It's just a department of the council (note the gov.uk email address).
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Civil penalty charge notices (Councils, TFL and so on) / Re: [Kingston upon Thames] Took a prohibited turn. But where's the sign?
« on: January 12, 2026, 07:41:42 pm »
Presumably that's also the only way into the car park, and there's signage about the restriction which the driver ought to have seen on their way in? I would think the sign on the opposite side of the road is the normal extent of any reminder you get on your way back out of private land (the roads authority can't realistically stick additional signs inside the private land). Whether it's sufficient for a penalty, I don't know.
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Civil penalty charge notices (Councils, TFL and so on) / Re: Lambeth, Moving Traffic Contravention, 53 j Rosendale Road (H) - Holiday Bummer!
« on: January 07, 2026, 08:33:57 am »https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cf.QuoteWork out the 14 days discount and cf. with the website page.
Sorry, I'm not clear what cf. means
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Civil penalty charge notices (Councils, TFL and so on) / Re: Edinburgh council. 01 parked in restricted street. George square lane, os library. Single Yellow Sunday
« on: November 30, 2025, 09:41:14 pm »
It's far from intuitive, to be fair - I'm a local so I know the restrictions, but in order to know the times which apply in my street, you have to remember what was on the sign you passed possibly a mile away (and be certain that you haven't passed any other signs with differing times since then). Absolutely no clues on the street signage local to where you park.
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Civil penalty charge notices (Councils, TFL and so on) / Re: Edinburgh - 24 Not parked correctly within the markings of the parking bay - Leamington Terrace
« on: August 06, 2023, 09:07:32 pm »
Successful though grudging result:
"The parking tickets were issued because the vehicle was not parked correctly within the bay. The legislation requires that, when a vehicle is parked in a parking bay, every part of that vehicle must be contained within the bay markings. The Parking Attendant has recorded that the vehicle was not wholly contained within the parking bay.
The residents parking permit only authorises you to park your vehicle in any vacant permit, shared use or public parking place within your zone during permitted hours. Unless the vehicle is fully within the appropriate bay it has no legal status, and the residents permit contains no guarantee that the holder will be able to park in or near the street in which the holder resides. The responsibility is with the driver to check the bay markings before leaving the vehicle parked. The very existence of bay markings makes parking within them self evident.
We will cancel the parking tickets as a courtesy on this occasion. Any future tickets issued under the same circumstances will not be cancelled as the regulations have now been confirmed to you."
"The parking tickets were issued because the vehicle was not parked correctly within the bay. The legislation requires that, when a vehicle is parked in a parking bay, every part of that vehicle must be contained within the bay markings. The Parking Attendant has recorded that the vehicle was not wholly contained within the parking bay.
The residents parking permit only authorises you to park your vehicle in any vacant permit, shared use or public parking place within your zone during permitted hours. Unless the vehicle is fully within the appropriate bay it has no legal status, and the residents permit contains no guarantee that the holder will be able to park in or near the street in which the holder resides. The responsibility is with the driver to check the bay markings before leaving the vehicle parked. The very existence of bay markings makes parking within them self evident.
We will cancel the parking tickets as a courtesy on this occasion. Any future tickets issued under the same circumstances will not be cancelled as the regulations have now been confirmed to you."
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