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Civil penalty charge notices (Councils, TFL and so on) / Re: Need Advice: Haringey Issued 4 PCNs and Towed My Car from Resident Car Park
« on: July 14, 2026, 11:00:33 am »
Please report everything with the pcn refs and vehicle registration showing.

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Civil penalty charge notices (Councils, TFL and so on) / Re: Road signs information overload - PCN Hammersmith and Fulham Council
« on: July 05, 2026, 12:50:03 pm »
Hammersmith are one of the most generous when it comes to cancellations in my experience.

I think I would take a totally different approach for the PCNs for which representations have not yet been made to the council. Don't mention the contravention at all and ask only for a discretionary cancellation due to the medical circumstances and provide documentary proof. I'm thinking ahead to a possible tribunal Appeal and this case https://lbbspending.blogspot.com/2026/07/exercise-of-discretion-must-have-open.html

I'm not sure it matters much but is the car registered to husband or wife?

One problem is that the council are entitled to remove the discount after 14 days whether you make a representation or not.

We need to see one of the rejection letters, assuming they are all the same, cover up only your name and address.

At the tribunal I would argue that signage is inadequate in that although it is perfectly ok to only have one sign at a location, to put different signs on each side of the road makes it likely that a driver will only take one in. Against you is the fact that you didn't see the 'flying motorbike' sign c. 15 times. I also recently blogged about this sign https://lbbspending.blogspot.com/2026/05/beware-flying-motorbike-sign.html

A separate tack: do you live within the borough and so could go to your local councillor to ask them to advocate with parking on your behalf? (whilst meeting all PCN processing deadlines at the same time).

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Civil penalty charge notices (Councils, TFL and so on) / Re: Car towed Newham, code 01 parked in a restricted street
« on: July 03, 2026, 12:13:02 pm »
I would write less.

Dear Sirs, I parked in the dark at around 3am and saw the outline of a bay which having checked the nearby sign was free to park in at that time. Accordingly no contravention has occurred. Please cancel and refund both the PCN and the towing fee as there was no traffic management purpose to removal from this remote spot. Yours etc

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Civil penalty charge notices (Councils, TFL and so on) / Re: Car towed Newham, code 01 parked in a restricted street
« on: July 02, 2026, 11:38:36 am »
Yes as you will never see your money back otherwise.

Amendment - I should have written 'make representations to the council' rather than saying yes to your thought of Appealing. You have to have your representations rejected by the council before you can Appeal but rejection is highly likely.

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Civil penalty charge notices (Councils, TFL and so on) / Re: Car towed Newham, code 01 parked in a restricted street
« on: July 02, 2026, 11:27:29 am »
Thank you for the car pound documents. Councils often used to get these wrong but Newham's look to be correct to me so no grounds there.

Your best bet seems to be the bay markings and that it was dark at the time you parked. (It looks to me like the bay got shortened and although old markings are meant to be burnt off they are often simply painted over and they can wear or wash away).

Your tribunal appeal is that no contravention occurred due to the bay markings inviting you to park at that time. Towing you was also not proportionate but that would be a harder one to get an adjudicator to agree.

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Civil penalty charge notices (Councils, TFL and so on) / Re: Car towed Newham, code 01 parked in a restricted street
« on: July 01, 2026, 10:21:05 pm »
I would like to see all other documents the car pound gave to you, include the back if not blank

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Civil penalty charge notices (Councils, TFL and so on) / Re: Havering, code 24 -- do I have to mount the kerb?
« on: June 30, 2026, 05:03:50 pm »
Stamfordman knows what he is doing, we are just looking at this in different ways but we agree on one thing, Havering Council are wrong.

The below is an extract from parking sign law, The Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2016 which says you 'may' park on the footway.



This being Havering you can probably count on them shooting themselves in the foot and sending you a charge certificate later on before they are legally permitted to.

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Civil penalty charge notices (Councils, TFL and so on) / Re: Havering, code 24 -- do I have to mount the kerb?
« on: June 30, 2026, 11:34:09 am »
The council haven't even painted a compliant bay. A bay which is for parking partially on the footway must have 4 painted sides and if you are meant to be fully on the footway it needs 3 painted sides, the kerb stones marking the fourth



Thus there is no bay to be in breach of parking outside of.

Strap yourself in for the ride, you may have to challenge 3 times (one of which is at the tribunal).

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Civil penalty charge notices (Councils, TFL and so on) / Re: Yellow Box Contravention - LBC from Gladstones - How to appeal
« on: May 14, 2026, 02:41:37 pm »
Gladstones need to be reported to the Solicitors Regulatory Authority. A county court claim cannot be started for a PCN, there is a prescribed legal procedure

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Civil penalty charge notices (Councils, TFL and so on) / Re: Barnet, 51J - failing to comply with a no entry restriction - Netherlands Road
« on: April 03, 2026, 06:33:19 pm »
Cancellation letters in Barnet often take a month at the moment but at least it is history.


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Civil penalty charge notices (Councils, TFL and so on) / Re: Barnet, 51J - failing to comply with a no entry restriction - Netherlands Road
« on: March 26, 2026, 04:40:23 pm »
I have challenged on the grounds there is no contravention.

I have complained to the parking process manager who has replied same day and informed the apcoa cctv supervisors.

I don't think this pcn will be around for long and some arses will be kicked.

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Civil penalty charge notices (Councils, TFL and so on) / Re: Barnet, 51J - failing to comply with a no entry restriction - Netherlands Road
« on: March 25, 2026, 04:20:36 pm »
I have an idea to make it simple.

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Civil penalty charge notices (Councils, TFL and so on) / Re: Barnet, 51J - failing to comply with a no entry restriction - Netherlands Road
« on: March 25, 2026, 02:40:09 pm »
I am interested as another client came to me with such a PCN from 14 December 2025.

It has now been cancelled but confirmation letters are taking a month to be issued by Barnet.

I have driven that way and veered to the middle of the road about 50 times now. PCNs received? None!

If I email the parking process manager I can probably get this killed off at the same time as making representations in the name of the registered keeper, no-one else can do them.

My email is mrmustard@zoho.com

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Civil penalty charge notices (Councils, TFL and so on) / Re: Unlawful vehicle clamping
« on: February 23, 2026, 06:45:16 am »
Sorry I don't have capacity as I picked up a major project two weeks ago and have £6m+ of debts to argue about and try to collect.

We usually recommend https://bailiffadviceonline.co.uk/

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Civil penalty charge notices (Councils, TFL and so on) / Re: Hackney, 52m Failing to comply with a prohibition on certain types of vehicle (motor vehicles)
« on: February 17, 2026, 07:16:29 am »
Yes it does need uploading please

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