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Private parking tickets / Re: Gemini Parking Solutions - Failure to Display - Paid by App
« on: Today at 03:27:26 pm »
Post up the PCN you have received - note there may be an advantage to not appealing to the last minute.
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Civil penalty charge notices (Councils, TFL and so on) / Re: BCP Parked in a restriced street during prescribed hours
« on: Yesterday at 09:51:16 pm »
It appears it's for parking on the double yellows, not on the pavement. Loading may be an exemption - what were you loading and how long for? Post a street view link to the location - are there any loading restrictions in force?
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Private parking tickets / Re: PCN from CPM - I didn’t park! Appeal/ IAS advice please
« on: Yesterday at 07:26:37 pm »
Post the PCN, your appeal and their rejection. If it was just 2 minutes this should come under the 5 mins consideration period.
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Civil penalty charge notices (Councils, TFL and so on) / Re: Bailiff for PCN that was sent to wrong address.
« on: Yesterday at 12:35:14 pm »
The important dates are the date of purchase, the date of the offence and the date you submitted the V5C change to DVLA....
Your dates suggest that the Bailiff was paid some time ago? This may play against you if you submit the out of time request to get the charges set aside. You also need the original PCN so you know what legislation it was issued under so you know the process to follow for the set aside.
Your dates suggest that the Bailiff was paid some time ago? This may play against you if you submit the out of time request to get the charges set aside. You also need the original PCN so you know what legislation it was issued under so you know the process to follow for the set aside.
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Civil penalty charge notices (Councils, TFL and so on) / Re: TFL Yellow Box PCN - CC 31
« on: Yesterday at 09:11:27 am »
We might be in 2026, but TFL is still in 1996 🤣
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Civil penalty charge notices (Councils, TFL and so on) / Re: TFL Yellow Box PCN - CC 31
« on: Yesterday at 07:29:52 am »
The video has to be requested from TFL - which they will send snail mail on a DVD....
You need to see the video to confirm if a contravention took place - but moving traffic conventions may be open to technical appeal, especially TFL ones. Get the video and see what it shows first.
You need to see the video to confirm if a contravention took place - but moving traffic conventions may be open to technical appeal, especially TFL ones. Get the video and see what it shows first.
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Private parking tickets / Re: PCN Euro Parking Services Milton Keynes Jardines (JD GYM)
« on: January 18, 2026, 08:41:54 am »
Please post the PCN (use an external host) and a street view link to the location.
To update your address you need to send a data rectification notice to their data protection officer (details should be on the PCN) instructing them to update your address for service and to erase any old addresses they hold for you.
If you don't want to pay, then you will have to weather the storm of debt collectors letters (which you can ignore) and actually defend a small claims court claim (for which advice will be provided and is usually discontinued as long as you defend). Come back for advice when you receive a Letter of Claim.
To update your address you need to send a data rectification notice to their data protection officer (details should be on the PCN) instructing them to update your address for service and to erase any old addresses they hold for you.
If you don't want to pay, then you will have to weather the storm of debt collectors letters (which you can ignore) and actually defend a small claims court claim (for which advice will be provided and is usually discontinued as long as you defend). Come back for advice when you receive a Letter of Claim.
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Civil penalty charge notices (Councils, TFL and so on) / Re: LB Enfield code 52M – Failure to comply with the prohibition of motor vehicles at Montagu Gardens
« on: January 18, 2026, 08:32:52 am »
You say your brother received PCN, but then imply you were driving? Keeper has to deal with / pay the PCN.
You could have driven into the road, but would have needed to use the width restriction - any reason why not? Video doesn't seem to show any delays in making the decision to bypass the restriction.
Many of these moving traffic conventions can be beaten at tribunal, but full penalty is in play - others will advise the chances of this one getting cancelled.
You could have driven into the road, but would have needed to use the width restriction - any reason why not? Video doesn't seem to show any delays in making the decision to bypass the restriction.
Many of these moving traffic conventions can be beaten at tribunal, but full penalty is in play - others will advise the chances of this one getting cancelled.
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Civil penalty charge notices (Councils, TFL and so on) / Re: Lambeth council PCN, code 34j being in bus lane, Clapham Park Road
« on: January 17, 2026, 02:18:29 pm »
Please post the PCN or at least the number and the vehicle reg.
You can't get it cancelled due to the delay, but if they issue a charge cert for the £240 without first issuing a Notice of Rejection then you can get it reset to PCN stage- if they do issue the NOR but don't re-offer the discount then you can appeal to the tribunal, and Hippocrates is the man for these, and they can (almost) all be beaten at the tribunal. Admitting the contravention in the reps might harm your defence however....
You can't get it cancelled due to the delay, but if they issue a charge cert for the £240 without first issuing a Notice of Rejection then you can get it reset to PCN stage- if they do issue the NOR but don't re-offer the discount then you can appeal to the tribunal, and Hippocrates is the man for these, and they can (almost) all be beaten at the tribunal. Admitting the contravention in the reps might harm your defence however....
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Civil penalty charge notices (Councils, TFL and so on) / Re: Hammersmith and Fulham Council, Code 31j – entering and stopping in a box, 170 Shepherds bush road
« on: January 17, 2026, 02:10:32 pm »
You need to set the files in Google drive to public.
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Civil penalty charge notices (Councils, TFL and so on) / Re: disabled bay
« on: January 16, 2026, 07:44:52 am »
So it appears there are 2 possibilities:
1. The bay is still in force, but the sign has fallen off or been nicked - inadequate signage / not maintained, so PCN invalid
2. The bay has been 'deleted' (sign removed, but not the road markings) in which case no contravention as you were parked outside of the RPZ hours
Helpfully the councils own pictures show the sign missing, so it 'should' be cancelled at formal reps in reply to NTO stage - if not I would expect to win at Tribunal. See what anyone else thinks.
1. The bay is still in force, but the sign has fallen off or been nicked - inadequate signage / not maintained, so PCN invalid
2. The bay has been 'deleted' (sign removed, but not the road markings) in which case no contravention as you were parked outside of the RPZ hours
Helpfully the councils own pictures show the sign missing, so it 'should' be cancelled at formal reps in reply to NTO stage - if not I would expect to win at Tribunal. See what anyone else thinks.
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Civil penalty charge notices (Councils, TFL and so on) / Re: disabled bay
« on: January 15, 2026, 10:33:35 am »
It appears to be here: https://maps.app.goo.gl/UVzRVHfunibDhgDUA
You can see in GSV that there is a sign that says Disabled Residents only, but in one of the pics the CEO took from the front of the car, you can see the same post, but the sign is missing.
Seems like a good case to me, but I am no expert! You will have to wait for the NTO then make formal reps, and highlight this point. Their NOR also waffles on about the RPZ, but that appears not relevant here since you were parked outside of the hours of operation.
You can see in GSV that there is a sign that says Disabled Residents only, but in one of the pics the CEO took from the front of the car, you can see the same post, but the sign is missing.
Seems like a good case to me, but I am no expert! You will have to wait for the NTO then make formal reps, and highlight this point. Their NOR also waffles on about the RPZ, but that appears not relevant here since you were parked outside of the hours of operation.
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Private parking tickets / Re: Mayfield Leisure Centre - Euro Car Parks
« on: January 15, 2026, 07:53:16 am »
Plan A should be to ask the Leisure Centre to get it cancelled.
ECP will reject your appeal (because they always do) - I imagine POPLA will also reject as technically the conditions weren't complied with. There is no 'invitation to pay or name the driver' as required under POFA, but that's a fairly thin technicality. If you don't get it cancelled and don't pay, then it will progress to a County Court claim - but one of the hopeless bulk litigators will take it on and it will be fairly easily defended.
ECP will reject your appeal (because they always do) - I imagine POPLA will also reject as technically the conditions weren't complied with. There is no 'invitation to pay or name the driver' as required under POFA, but that's a fairly thin technicality. If you don't get it cancelled and don't pay, then it will progress to a County Court claim - but one of the hopeless bulk litigators will take it on and it will be fairly easily defended.
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Civil penalty charge notices (Councils, TFL and so on) / Re: PCN challenge declined but with strange google pic and no proof
« on: January 14, 2026, 03:46:21 pm »
In the GSV current pic there is a square manhole behind the Audi - and in the council pic of the front of the OP's car you can just see the edge of the manhole. Going back to 2019 in GSV is close to a square on view of the 5/7 gates - the edge of the manhole looks to be more or less level with the gatepost of no 5 (not the 5/7 gatepost). So it looks like the OP's car was over the dividing line by perhaps 30-50cm. Would really need a site visit to measure. Given the lack of any markings in the parking bay seems a good case of de minimis, but it's the OP's money.
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Private parking tickets / Re: Smart Parking Ltd - Letter of Claim - Waldorf Astoria Edinburgh
« on: January 14, 2026, 08:42:49 am »
That's not a letter of claim, it's a sabre rattling exercise in the hope you might cough up. Note the (repeated) use of the words 'may recommend'.
I'd ignore it - they're very unlikely to actually issue a claim in Scotland (although we have had a couple posted recently) - if you get an actual letter of claim from an 'actual' solicitor come back and post it up. You are correct that there is no keeper liability in Scotland, and they will have a hard time making it stick against the keeper - and the system is such that it is not really worth their while.
They must be getting desperate, we've got one from almost 2 years ago where the letters from DCBL(Ltd, not legal yet) have started again!
I'd ignore it - they're very unlikely to actually issue a claim in Scotland (although we have had a couple posted recently) - if you get an actual letter of claim from an 'actual' solicitor come back and post it up. You are correct that there is no keeper liability in Scotland, and they will have a hard time making it stick against the keeper - and the system is such that it is not really worth their while.
They must be getting desperate, we've got one from almost 2 years ago where the letters from DCBL(Ltd, not legal yet) have started again!