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Thanks for your response. It is every few weeks in my current situation and I am usually there for 2-3 weeks at a time. The envelope indeed had been franked as first class mail and it was not there when I last left on Sunday 30th November. I believe that it has only recently arrived as a family member checked the property around Friday 12th December and when I returned it was with some Christmas cards and a renewal letter I was expecting around this time of year. My registered address is close to the border of Scotland.

I did eventually manage to speak with someone at TH on their contact number after multiple attempts at their phone system to get through to a human after work today and their response was pretty much as you have now explained better - either pay up or wait for it to be sent on to the Traffic Enforcement Center and £10 added on before writing and submitting a declaration to say I had not received the PCN in time to do anything with it.

Where you say to submit reps, do you think I should still do this using the PCN documentation and post it back to them? I am unable to do anything currently within the TH parking portal online other than the polite offer for me to pay for the charge notice they have now placed on this.

Hello,

I have received a PCN from Tower Hamlets authority for "52M - Failing to comply with  a prohibition on motor vehicles" on Wapping High Street (Sampson to Wapping Ln) from 28/10/2025 at 09:48. The notice was issued on 12/11/2025 and it has only arrived very recently as it was in my post when I returned home again this weekend. I am concerned that I have only just been made aware of this PCN and it is already a decent time since it was issued.

I have tonight logged into the portal to review the images and footage. Apparently there is some form of bus gate in operation temporarily for a few hours each day at the entrance/exit to this roundabout. From what I can see reviewing Street View it is indicated by some high up signs directly on the point where you reach it and I assume are the three thin red painted lines on the road.

On the morning, I was attending the London office of the company I work for which is on Thomas More Street nearby. As I recall, I was routed down Wapping Lane or Garnet Street to reach my destination and I followed the directions given as I am unfamiliar with the area. I cannot recall and could not find by looking at Street View that there are any signs when you turn onto Wapping High Street that there are restrictions for cars at certain times. By the time you reach this bus gate there is nothing you can do even if you spot the sign they have placed right on it (and in fact it appears worse if you are coming the other way by travelling down Sampson Street to turn left looking at Street View as you are immediately upon it).

Street View link for the location is here. I have also taken pictures of the 6 pages of the PCN and uploaded these below as directed in the sticky post and have retrieved a copy of the evidence images once I managed to get past the chat bot which only felt designed to coerce me into paying rather than being able to view the evidence against me. If it makes any difference the Map location on their portal simply states "No mapping data available."

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Thank you for looking and any help will be appreciated.