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Traffic Warden put wrong location
DIR By: T.kukadia
Date: March 29, 2025, 3:33 pm
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Hi Folks
Need some advise from your goodselves
So i was picking my chid up from school, i was gone less then 1
minute walking to the gate. When i returned to the car i goy a
PCN on the windscreen.
So the traffic warden put on there "parked with one or more
wheels on or over a footpath or any part of a road other than a
carriageway". The thing is on the ticket he has put the wrong
road name. The road that I was on was crescent road and he has
put that I was on Waremead Road. Is there any way I can appeal
this?
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Re: Traffic Warden put wrong location
DIR By: fraser.mitchell
Date: March 29, 2025, 6:58 pm
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Wrong location is fatal to the PCN.
You should submit representations on the following lines: -
Dear Sirs
Re PCN <number> served on <date> at Crescent Road
Today I received the above PCN which alleges I committed a
parking violation in Warehead Road. However, at the time on the
PCN, I was parked on Crescent Road. As you will be aware, a PCN
served by your parking officers is legally obliged to state the
location of the contravention. As the location is incorrect, I
request that the PCN be cancelled forthwith.
Yours faithfully
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Re: Traffic Warden put wrong location
DIR By: H C Andersen
Date: March 30, 2025, 3:35 am
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Can we hold fire until the OP's claim can be verified..just in
case!
OP, we cannot access the authority's photos without your VRM.
Alternatively, pl post a GSV link to exactly where you were
parked.
Unless local circumstances (see 15(4) in the link) permit a
degree of footway parking then don't do it, it's been prohibited
since 1974 and any defence based in assisted boarding won't
succeed(see 15(5)).
HTML https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/1974/24/section/15
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Re: Traffic Warden put wrong location
DIR By: T.kukadia
Date: March 31, 2025, 8:22 am
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Thanks, I see what you mean about the footway parking, but will
they still fine me if they have the wrong address?
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Re: Traffic Warden put wrong location
DIR By: H C Andersen
Date: March 31, 2025, 8:49 am
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If you don't want us to run the rule over exactly where you were
parked then go with the suggested reps.
Otherwise, the VRM and a GSV link pl.
#Post#: 65103--------------------------------------------------
Re: Traffic Warden put wrong location
DIR By: T.kukadia
Date: April 1, 2025, 12:59 am
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Here you go. The image taken by the CEO states waremead road but
it isn't. I was parked on Gants hill crescent.
Link
HTML https://maps.app.goo.gl/QJpE1GGhvAMMn4ja7
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Re: Traffic Warden put wrong location
DIR By: Grant Urismo
Date: April 1, 2025, 4:49 am
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You are very lucky!
Councils only have one go at getting PCNs right, so on the rare
occasion that they mess up, they lose and you get away with
whatever you were doing wrong - in this case parking on the
pavement in London, which has been banned for years.
Your defence is that you can prove you were not in Waremead Road
as alleged, because the CE's pictures show you were parked
outside 56 Crescent Road at the time.
They can't have a second go at getting the PCN right, you'll get
away with no penalty. You might have to go through a few more
stages of the appeal, but if you follow the process promptly
you've been handed a win.
Here's the GSV
HTML https://www.google.com/maps/@51.5806709,0.0704103,3a,75y,44.18h,88.04t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sDiNrG9tdus2qoVpIaZyKjQ!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D1.9611132608908406%26panoid%3DDiNrG9tdus2qoVpIaZyKjQ%26yaw%3D44.18381414998487!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDMyNS4xIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D<br
/>for other readers.
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Re: Traffic Warden put wrong location
DIR By: H C Andersen
Date: April 1, 2025, 9:18 am
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IMO, suitably modify Incandescent's draft(substitute 56 Gant's
Hill Crescent for Crescent and, I would suggest, refer them to
their photos) then you're good to go.
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Re: Traffic Warden put wrong location
DIR By: stamfordman
Date: April 1, 2025, 9:49 am
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--- Quote from: Incandescent link ---
>
> As you will be aware, a PCN served by your parking officers is
legally obliged to state the location of the contravention.
>
--- End Quote ---
Actually unless the regulation has changed, location is not
mandatory on a reg 9 PCN. In practice it is intrinsic to
enforcement to convey to a registered keeper the full grounds on
which a contravention is alleged.
As the OP hasn't given the VRM we can't check this - the two
roads adjoin so this may be a close call.
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Re: Traffic Warden put wrong location
DIR By: H C Andersen
Date: April 1, 2025, 9:53 am
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The OP's posted their photos and VRM. The location is as stated
i.e. o/s 56 Gant's Hill Crescent.
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