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I will be submitting this shortly as evidence for my appeal.

"The PCN gives a contravention of "01a Parked in a restricted street during prescribed hours (temporary traffic order)" which I dispute happened. In support, I refer to the authority's letters dated 1st October 2025 rejecting my informal representations, in particular the following:

Quoting verbatim from that letter 'When a parking place is suspended, the suspension remains in force whilst the suspension sign is in place. You must not use a suspended parking space to park, wait, load or unload while the suspension is in force, even if it appears there is no work being carried out. Every effort is made to bring suspensions to the attention of residents/businesses in the area by: Displaying a sign showing the proposed suspension dates in advance before the suspension occurs"

This clearly shows that the authority consider that the parking place was simply suspended, indeed this word and its derivatives occurs no less than 8 times in just these two short paragraphs. And yet despite this, the PCN refers to the breach of a 'waiting' restriction.

The issue here is therefore whether the imposition of a waiting restriction within these parking places was made lawfully, properly implemented as regards notice and conveyed adequately to motorists by traffic signs. For the reasons set out in both my informal and formal representations which should be read alongside these and for the reasons set out above I contend that the alleged contravention did not occur.

From the picture taken by the CEO, the sign states 8am-6pm; the order states that the amended restriction applies only if the appropriate prescribed traffic signs are placed, the order implies that the restriction is "at any time" (there is no reference to 8am-6pm), therefore "appropriate traffic signs" have not been placed, therefore the order has not been implemented correctly and no penalties may be demanded because the specific contravention has not occurred.

The authority has twice failed to consider this substantive point that I have raised at both stages of the informal representations and the formal representations when the NtO was served.

I thank you for your consideration."

Is there a way for me to view the appeal I submitted at the NtO stage?

Happy new year all.

I have been slow catching up with my letters and one of which was this NoR received on the 15th Dec. Their correspondence is a mess, not least with typos everywhere and poor image formatting covering critical information. And they have repeated their points from the representations stage.

Yes sorry, here's the NTO.

Any thoughts on the notice period of the signs?

The signs aren't 'suspension' signs, as in suspending a parking place, they are supposed to be 'appropriate traffic signs displayed in accordance with the [Traffic Signs etc] regulations' - see para. 2 of the TTRO.

The TTRO amends the provisions of the principal order, The Newham(Waiting and Loading Restriction) Order 2011. This is amended 'as if for the Road purposes of the application of Article 5(1)[to the streets listed in the Schedule of the temporary order] ..the prescribed hours were at any time'.

There is no 'at any time restriction' in the road(preventing parking and waiting), so have the correct signs been erected?

IMO, there is nothing in what's written on the sign or which could be deduced therefrom which supports the imposition of a temporary as opposed to 'at any time' waiting and loading restriction in the specified day.

IMO, make sure you add contravention did not occur to your reps. And this is not based on guesswork, it's simply reading their order which is displayed on the board.

Thank you for the reply.

To clarify, the TTRO states that the 2011 order is amended so that the prescribed hours are 24 hours, instead of the 8am-6pm that they currently are. And we are questioning whether this has been adequately represented in the signs that were erected?

I need to submit something for representations. I will probably contest the visibility of the sign, the proximity of it to the suspended bays, and the (likely) short notice of installation before it came into effect.

Should I also question the use of a temporary traffic order? It's unlikely I get any traction with any of these points, but I suppose the purpose is to get to the appeal stage.

Is the sign ahead in a different bay?

There's a pic of the order I posted - just about readable.

The sign that is behind my car in the pictures is in the same "bay", the whole street is part of the same zone. I have a resident permit for that zone.

Is there a way to see when that sign was installed? Do they have to give a minimum amount of notice?