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Civil penalty charge notices (Councils, TFL and so on) / Re: Over 650 PCNs issued for this! help with appeal please for a Wandsworth 52M PCN Putney Embankment JCT Lower Richmond
« on: September 16, 2026, 10:54:13 am »
Hi Hippocrates,
2260194154
an Updated FOI confirms there have now been 1081 PCNs issued since the one way street was changed to 'no motor vehicles' - May17th 2024- 10th Aug 2026 - and that’s just from a mobile van that the Council have there every weekend...(the driver told me he's there every weekend - 8-10 hours sitting in a van!)
There is another aspect of this which is pretty poor- the council has repainted the old yellow box - across a road that they now want no traffic to go in or out of... WHY??? just a money making scheme.
It is extraordinary that the Council tried to argue that the signs weren't contradictory and that the 960.2 was only there for 'exempt vehicles':
"I note from your representations that you were at the location to access the PLA slipway to
assess suitability for a boat trip. In this case motor vehicles are prohibited regardless of direction,
there are however exemptions for highway maintenance, PLA or Thames Tideway access.
These exempt vehicles and cycles must follow the One way (contraflow) directional signage."
I pointed out to adjudicator that there are no permitted variants of that sign - it applies to ALL traffic...
I went back through google maps dates and when it was a one way street before May2024 they didnt use the correct sign 960.2 at all - so i think someone thinks that 960.2 is a cycle sign- which it isnt - a standard 1 way vehicle street is a white arrow on a blue background! and this one adds a cycle lane in opposite direction ( no entry except cycles on other end of this street).
How would one try to get council to redo this signing? write to councillors? press?
2260194154
an Updated FOI confirms there have now been 1081 PCNs issued since the one way street was changed to 'no motor vehicles' - May17th 2024- 10th Aug 2026 - and that’s just from a mobile van that the Council have there every weekend...(the driver told me he's there every weekend - 8-10 hours sitting in a van!)
There is another aspect of this which is pretty poor- the council has repainted the old yellow box - across a road that they now want no traffic to go in or out of... WHY??? just a money making scheme.
It is extraordinary that the Council tried to argue that the signs weren't contradictory and that the 960.2 was only there for 'exempt vehicles':
"I note from your representations that you were at the location to access the PLA slipway to
assess suitability for a boat trip. In this case motor vehicles are prohibited regardless of direction,
there are however exemptions for highway maintenance, PLA or Thames Tideway access.
These exempt vehicles and cycles must follow the One way (contraflow) directional signage."
I pointed out to adjudicator that there are no permitted variants of that sign - it applies to ALL traffic...
I went back through google maps dates and when it was a one way street before May2024 they didnt use the correct sign 960.2 at all - so i think someone thinks that 960.2 is a cycle sign- which it isnt - a standard 1 way vehicle street is a white arrow on a blue background! and this one adds a cycle lane in opposite direction ( no entry except cycles on other end of this street).
How would one try to get council to redo this signing? write to councillors? press?