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Re: Car towed Newham, code 01 parked in a restricted street
DIR By: roxyord@gmail.com
Date: July 2, 2026, 3:13 am
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Re: Car towed Newham, code 01 parked in a restricted street
DIR By: mrmustard
Date: July 2, 2026, 5:27 am
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Thank you for the car pound documents. Councils often used to
get these wrong but Newham's look to be correct to me so no
grounds there.
Your best bet seems to be the bay markings and that it was dark
at the time you parked. (It looks to me like the bay got
shortened and although old markings are meant to be burnt off
they are often simply painted over and they can wear or wash
away).
Your tribunal appeal is that no contravention occurred due to
the bay markings inviting you to park at that time. Towing you
was also not proportionate but that would be a harder one to get
an adjudicator to agree.
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Re: Car towed Newham, code 01 parked in a restricted street
DIR By: roxyord@gmail.com
Date: July 2, 2026, 5:36 am
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Thank you for this, so you advice I appeal?
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Re: Car towed Newham, code 01 parked in a restricted street
DIR By: mrmustard
Date: July 2, 2026, 5:38 am
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Yes as you will never see your money back otherwise.
Amendment - I should have written 'make representations to the
council' rather than saying yes to your thought of Appealing.
You have to have your representations rejected by the council
before you can Appeal but rejection is highly likely.
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Re: Car towed Newham, code 01 parked in a restricted street
DIR By: tincombe
Date: July 2, 2026, 6:15 am
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I don't think that the worn bay markings are a shoo-in. The DYL
are clear and terminated correctly behind you.
The council's position that you were parked outside a parking
place and on DYL.
Your position is that you were parked within a bay indicated by
prescribed markings to your left and in front and that these and
the DYL were conflicting indicators.
I would also add that you saw the traffic sign to your rear and
to your right and reasoned that because it did not contain an
arrow, it did not mark the start of a parking restriction
despite being placed exactly in line with markings but was of
the form you would expect to find within a parking place, which
is where it would be situated if you were in a parking bay.
You went for the parking place version of the conflicting
indicators and got towed as a result.
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Re: Car towed Newham, code 01 parked in a restricted street
DIR By: roxyord@gmail.com
Date: July 2, 2026, 6:20 am
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Sorry, I’m a tad confused, are you asking me to add the third
paragraph to my appeal too or you’re asking me not to appeal,
sorry don’t want to get it wrong🥲
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Re: Car towed Newham, code 01 parked in a restricted street
DIR By: stamfordman
Date: July 2, 2026, 6:25 am
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You are not appealing at this stage. First you have to make
representations to Newham.
Develop a draft here. There is nothing to lose so you may as
well make them work for their money.
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Re: Car towed Newham, code 01 parked in a restricted street
DIR By: tincombe
Date: July 2, 2026, 6:34 am
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(crossed with stamfordman's post)
If you don't make representations to the authority(at this stage
you are not appealing to the adjudicator), then you've lost your
money.
If you make reps which are subsequently rejected, then you
appeal to the adjudicator or you've lost your money.
So you must engage with this process to its conclusion.
You'll put your reps in your words, but post a draft first.
My post asks you to add the presence of the traffic sign to the
mix(which you must have read otherwise even if you were in a
parking place it could still have been restricted!).
So, IMO:
For the council's position: clear DYL;
For your position: conflicting indicators as to what restriction
was in place. Bay markings ahead and to the side, albeit faded;
traffic sign situated in line with where the council says the
parking place begins but without an arrow indicating this whose
absence in your mind confirmed it was situated within a
multi-bay parking place inside which you were parked.
#Post#: 123647--------------------------------------------------
Re: Car towed Newham, code 01 parked in a restricted street
DIR By: roxyord@gmail.com
Date: July 3, 2026, 3:17 am
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My draft!
Dear Parking Services,
I wish to make formal representations against both the Penalty
Charge Notice and the subsequent removal of my vehicle.
On the morning of 27 June my vehicle was issued with a PCN for
Contravention Code 01 before being removed approximately two
hours later from Atlantis Avenue, E16.
I wish to challenge this PCN and the removal of my car by towing
for some reasons
Firstly, I genuinely believed that I was parked within a valid
parking bay. The location contains faded white bay markings
which remain visible on the carriageway. As I arrived late,
these markings appeared to indicate a legitimate parking place.
The double yellow lines continue alongside what appears to be a
series of old parking bays, creating an unclear and confusing
road layout.
In addition, the parking signs in the vicinity did not clearly
indicate, by way of directional arrows or other markings, where
any parking bay began or ended. In the absence of clear
termination markings or signage, I reasonably believed the faded
bay markings remained valid. Had the restriction been clearly
conveyed, I would not have parked there.
Also considering my arrival to the car park at 3am, the lack of
light contributed to my confusion about these signs and marking.
The subsequent towing of my car was also a disproportionate
punishment as I was not obstructing any entrance, pedestrian
walkway or other traffic flow.
I hope these considerations are taken into proper advisement.
Thank you
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Re: Car towed Newham, code 01 parked in a restricted street
DIR By: fraser.mitchell
Date: July 3, 2026, 5:57 am
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"advisement" ? Surely "consideration" fits better ?
Don't forget that there are no additional penalties for taking
them to London Tribunals, because you have already paid all
there is to pay.
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