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       Re: Camden - parked in a residents-only bay (12R) - Blue Badge?
   DIR By: tincombe
       Date: July 3, 2026, 9:29 am
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       The Camden website states, presumably underpinned by its policy,
       that:
       Where you can park with a Blue Badge in Camden
       .....
       residents or paid-for parking space, if it is not in the Green
       Badge zone or housing estate.
       The traffic sign in evidence is a bog standard Residents parking
       only sign. Nothing on the sign indicates that the location lies
       within a 'Green' zone.
       How would a motorist know when parking that they were not
       permitted to do so?
       For the purposes of parking, the council has chosen to call the
       'exempted area' under the 2000 Local Authority Traffic Orders
       Exemption regs a 'Green zone'. I don't know how their TMOs deal
       with traffic signs for parking places in this zone, but it's not
       overlaid with statute and therefore must be included within
       orders.
       And as regards its display, as I understand it these provisions
       apply:
       Display of an individual’s badge when a vehicle is parked
       14.—(1) This regulation prescribes for the purposes of section
       21(4A) of the 1970 Act the circumstances in which an
       individual’s badge may be displayed while a vehicle is parked.
       (2) An individual’s badge may be displayed on a vehicle while it
       is parked if it–
       (a)has been driven by the holder, or has been used to carry the
       holder, to the place where it is parked; or
       (b)is to be driven by the holder, or is to be used to carry the
       holder, from that place. (my emphasis)
       OP, my thoughts are to go with what you know and the
       circumstances and that because there wasn't any indication on
       the traffic sign, which is shown in their photos as being a
       standard 'permit holders only' sign, you are still not clear as
       to why the PCN was issued.
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