Successes stories of parking ticket appeals

A few of our successes

Some of our successes include assisting motorists when we pointed out to the London Evening Standard that Westminster council were issuing tickets on New Year’s Day a few years ago to thousands of motorists. Westminster said that New Year’s Day was not a public holiday because it happened to be a Saturday! We pointed out that their own Leisure Centres and Libraries were closed on New Year’s Day “because it was a public holiday”! Westminster then agreed to cancel 3,750 PCNs and to refund parking charges, tow away and clamping fees.

Another one of our successes is the unacceptable situation around Lord’s Cricket Ground where when matches were being played discreet little road side signs would pop open on a Sunday. Many of the signs were illegible and were facing the wrong direction and subsequently hundreds of motorists have been ticketed. Again Westminster council were unrepentant so we lobbied the Marylebone Cricket Club and the Metropolitan Police who advised Westminster that they no longer wished them to continue to enforce single yellow lines around Lords when matches were being played. Thanks to efforts by us they agreed to contact motorists and refund them. In late 2007 the signage on the single yellow lines was removed and they are still no longer enforced on weekends.

We have pursued Camden council about their continued enforcement of illegally marked bus lanes and yellow box junctions. We have even made a complaint to the metropolitan police about this.

Thanks solely to us Westminster Council stopped using moped based PA’s for parking enforcement in the daytime from April 2008. However they restarted using them a few years later!

By contributing you will allow us to continue to lobby on behalf of motorists at a time when the use of more and more camera enforcement is resulting in even more PCNs being issued for parking and moving traffic offences.

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1. Parked in a restricted street during prescribed hours
2. Parked or loading / unloading in a restricted street where waiting and loading / unloading restrictions are in force
4. Parked in a meter bay when penalty time is indicated
5. Parked after the expiry of paid for time
6. Parked without clearly displaying a valid pay & display ticket or voucher
7. Parked with payment made to extend the stay beyond initial time
8. Parked at an out-of-order meter during controlled hours
9. Parked displaying multiple pay and display tickets where prohibited.
11. Parked without payment of the parking charge
12. Parked in a residents’ or shared use parking place or zone without a valid virtual permit or clearly displaying a valid physical permit or voucher or pay and display ticket issued for that place where required, or without payment of the parking charge
14. Parked in an electric vehicles’ charging place during restricted hours without charging
16. Parked in a permit space or zone without a valid virtual permit or clearly displaying a valid physical permit where required.
19. Parked in a residents' or shared use parking place or zone with an invalid virtual permit or displaying an invalid physical permit or voucher or pay and display ticket, or after the expiry of paid for time
20. Parked in a part of a parking place marked by a yellow line where waiting is prohibited - a loading gap
21. Parked wholly or partly in a suspended bay or space.
22. Re-parked in the same parking place or zone within one hour after leaving.
23. Parked in a parking place or area not designated for that class of vehicle
24. Not parked correctly within the markings of the bay or space
25. Parked in a loading place or bay during restricted hours without loading
26. Parked in a special enforcement area more than 50 cm from the edge of the carriageway and not within a designated parking place
27. Parked in a special enforcement area adjacent to a footway, cycle track or verge lowered to meet the level of the carriageway
28. Parked in a special enforcement area on part of the carriageway raised to meet the level of a footway, cycle track or verge.
29. Failing to comply with a one-way restriction
30. Parked for longer than permitted
31. Entering and stopping in a box junction when prohibited
32. Failing to proceed in the direction shown by the arrow on a blue sign
33. Using a route restricted to certain vehicles
34. Being in a bus lane
37. Failing to give way to oncoming vehicles
38. Failing to comply with a sign indicating that vehicular traffic must pass to the specified side of the sign
40. Parked in a designated disabled person’s parking place without displaying a valid disabled person’s badge in the prescribed manner.
45. Stopped on a taxi rank
46. Stopped where prohibited (on a red route or clearway)
47. Stopped on a restricted bus stop or stand
48. Stopped in a restricted area outside a school, a hospital or a fire, police or ambulance station when prohibited.
50. Performing a prohibited turn
51. Failing to comply with a no entry restriction
52. Failing to comply with a prohibition on certain types of vehicle
53. Failing to comply with a restriction on vehicles entering a pedestrian zone
54. Failing to comply with a restriction on vehicles entering and waiting in a pedestrian zone
62. Parked with one or more wheels on or over a footpath or any part of a road other than a carriageway.
99. Stopped on a pedestrian crossing or crossing area marked by zigzags

1. Parked in a restricted street during prescribed hours
2. Parked or loading / unloading in a restricted street where waiting and loading / unloading restrictions are in force
4. Parked in a meter bay when penalty time is indicated
5. Parked after the expiry of paid for time
6. Parked without clearly displaying a valid pay & display ticket or voucher
7. Parked with payment made to extend the stay beyond initial time
8. Parked at an out-of-order meter during controlled hours
9. Parked displaying multiple pay and display tickets where prohibited.
11. Parked without payment of the parking charge
12. Parked in a residents’ or shared use parking place or zone without a valid virtual permit or clearly displaying a valid physical permit or voucher or pay and display ticket issued for that place where required, or without payment of the parking charge
14. Parked in an electric vehicles’ charging place during restricted hours without charging
16 Parked in a permit space or zone without a valid virtual permit or clearly displaying a valid physical permit where required.
19. Parked in a residents' or shared use parking place or zone with an invalid virtual permit or displaying an invalid physical permit or voucher or pay and display ticket, or after the expiry of paid for time
20. Parked in a part of a parking place marked by a yellow line where waiting is prohibited - a loading gap
21 Parked wholly or partly in a suspended bay or space.
22. Re-parked in the same parking place or zone within one hour after leaving.
23. Parked in a parking place or area not designated for that class of vehicle
24. Not parked correctly within the markings of the bay or space
25. Parked in a loading place or bay during restricted hours without loading
26. Parked in a special enforcement area more than 50 cm from the edge of the carriageway and not within a designated parking place
27. Parked in a special enforcement area adjacent to a footway, cycle track or verge lowered to meet the level of the carriageway
28. Parked in a special enforcement area on part of the carriageway raised to meet the level of a footway, cycle track or verge.
40. Parked in a designated disabled person’s parking place without displaying a valid disabled person’s badge in the prescribed manner.
45. Stopped on a taxi rank
46. Stopped where prohibited (on a red route or clearway)
47. Stopped on a restricted bus stop or stand
48. Stopped in a restricted area outside a school, a hospital or a fire, police or ambulance station when prohibited.
62. Parked with one or more wheels on or over a footpath or any part of a road other than a carriageway.
99. Stopped on a pedestrian crossing or crossing area marked by zigzags