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The EN still hasn't arrived, and so it is getting slightly unsettling.

My son was playing cricket at Enfield Cricket Club one evening earlier this week, and I parked up around 5.45pm. Adjacent with the ground is Lincoln Road and I found myself getting confused with the parking restrictions.

Check out the GSV:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Enfield+Cricket+Club/@51.6476127,-0.0769857,3a,15y,183.62h,92.14t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sFVCwKgplF9N61gZmrVYHAg!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D-2.136530022114343%26panoid%3DFVCwKgplF9N61gZmrVYHAg%26yaw%3D183.61865958341232!7i16384!8i8192!4m6!3m5!1s0x48761f23fc78ef7d:0xa2aa8c96c9b29cd6!8m2!3d51.6468537!4d-0.0762984!16s%2Fm%2F0czb9bs?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDQyMC4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

There's a yellow line which imposes a waiting restriction between 8am and 9.30am Mon-Fri. Overlaying the yellow line is a long parking bay which has operational hours 9.30am to 6.30pm (this was on Tuesday rather than at the weekend). Usually with a parking bay I'd expect to see some sort of qualification, e.g. permit holders only, or max stay 1 hour. But here there's no apparent qualification.  So can anyone park there for as long as they like while the bay is in operation? If so, what's the point of the bay as the yellow line doesn't apply after 9.30am.

Can anyone clear this one up for me as I'll be back there before too long!

A little help here please.

2 hours parking was paid and displayed in advance and a NTK charge was sent for what I assume is an inaccurate accused overstay of 13 mins.
I know that by law there needs to be a leeway of 10 mins, which I think is more accurate than the 13 mins accused.
The parking is a strange one.  You enter a series of roads (St Marks Square, Lincoln), which seem to be private, and there are parking signs everywhere but the road themselves are not parking spots. There are several parking spaces off road to the sides of the road and there are actually a few of these roads you can drive through in order to find an available parking spot.

As you can see from the first link below, it seems that the timings reflect when the car entered one of the private roads, and when it left a different private road, rather than when the car was parked in an allotted space and when it left the allotted space. The photos are also time stamped with these same times on the appeal website. The entry was on St Marks the Sidings 17:39:41, and the exit was on St Marks Square 19:53:17. None of these places are the parking space where 2 hour parking was paid. This would make the actual time of 2 hours and 13 mins slightly longer to the time when the car was actually parked in the parking space. The parking space is also not showed in any of the photos.

Should an appeal be made based on this? I’m thinking this letter alone should be enough for a successful appeal but I don’t want to assume. Any help in the correct direction will be greatly appreciated.

On the appeal site the site enforcer details are listed as:  Excel Parking Services Limited

Any help in the correct direction will be greatly appreciated.


NTK Front: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mNKXUzge5Fl9dTe2rIJ0upzMj2yp_M2n/view?usp=sharing

NTK Back: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ndA1ArJ2EyqQ9pY02_i9qm7L3NjJ9XG6/view?usp=sharing

Online Appeal data: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EzbMfKJoW7BtpXOfhPuWMs54sxrsO91D/view?usp=sharing

Here is my draft appeal.

I am writing to make representations against the above Penalty Charge Notice

The PCN issued on 14 April 2026 states the statutory payment periods:

14 days beginning with the date of the notice for the discounted amount, and 28 days from the date of the notice, for the full amount.

However, when accessing the council’s online payment system, I was informed that the penalty charge would increase to £160 on Sunday, 3 May 2026.

This date is neither 14 days nor 28 days from the date of the notice. It is 19 days after the notice date and does not correspond to any statutory period.

A motorist is entitled to rely on the information provided by the enforcement authority. By presenting contradictory deadlines, the council has failed to convey the correct legal position.

I therefore request that the PCN be cancelled.

Yours faithfully,

Here are the screenshots that contradict each other regarding the dates.

https://ibb.co/bgNYgdnc

https://ibb.co/bDpPMyc


Will this suffice for the first appeal?

Correct, my tenancy agreement has no reference to parking or car etc - here’s the screenshots of a scanned version.

https://ibb.co/Q32RwLBX
https://ibb.co/DDm86CC0
https://ibb.co/r2d20w08
https://ibb.co/BH03hNyZ
https://ibb.co/Qvvth3b2
https://ibb.co/hJth3hjv

That information pack is the only other document I’ve received from my landlord in relation to how I use the property etc.