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       #Post#: 89001--------------------------------------------------
       Council PCN fake evidence
   DIR By: Mylifestory
       Date: September 8, 2025, 12:55 pm
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       Copy of PCN attached.
       Also a photo of the street I was parked in.
       Their photo evidence of the parking suspension isnt where I
       parked, its a completely different place, you can see the houses
       behind the sign are not the houses on the road where I parked.
       There was no signs at all where I parked, i checked thoroughly.
       (I know a few people parked in the next road where there were no
       signs either and the prohibition cones were put there after to
       produce PCNs!)
       How do I tackle this pls?
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       #Post#: 89007--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Council PCN fake evidence
   DIR By: John U.K.
       Date: September 8, 2025, 1:10 pm
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       For convenience:
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       Please also post the back of the PCN and GSV links to the actual
       location and the alleged location.
       (For future reference, scroll down past each image to find the
       BBCode, highlight and copy then paste in your post here.)
       #Post#: 89012--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Council PCN fake evidence
   DIR By: Mylifestory
       Date: September 8, 2025, 1:24 pm
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       This is the actual location, there is a white building on the
       left and the location rotate slightly to the right and see the
       row of houses in my previous photo.
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       The location they have taken a photo of is nowhere near, I have
       no idea where it is. There is no more parking for miles to the
       right and on the left its near a roundabout so anything past
       that would be a different road.
       Back of PCN :
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       #Post#: 89017--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Council PCN fake evidence
   DIR By: stamfordman
       Date: September 8, 2025, 1:44 pm
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       The contravention is stopped on a red route or clearway -
       clearway looks more likely from your Maps link. Is there any
       signage.
       The sign pic looks like they've included it by mistake.
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       #Post#: 89032--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Council PCN fake evidence
   DIR By: Mylifestory
       Date: September 8, 2025, 3:02 pm
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       There are no red routes there. It's not a clearway either, it's
       a road for people who live there to park on. No signs at all.
       Their pic isn't a mistake, they ticketed every car along there
       and the next road, the car adjacent to mine was sent a
       completely different sigh saying no parking 8am- 6pm mon- Fri
       which isn't from anywhere near there either! I checked
       thoroughly for any signs at the time.
       Just wondering how to word the response?
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       Re: Council PCN fake evidence
   DIR By: stamfordman
       Date: September 8, 2025, 4:04 pm
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       Here? Looks like a stretch of degraded verge.
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       #Post#: 89039--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Council PCN fake evidence
   DIR By: Mylifestory
       Date: September 8, 2025, 4:22 pm
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       It's very green in your pic bt it's more gravelly now and the
       cars all park towards the big road in front. The houses you can
       see all park there. See my pic above that shows the back of my
       car.
       #Post#: 89046--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Council PCN fake evidence
   DIR By: fraser.mitchell
       Date: September 8, 2025, 6:49 pm
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       The sign has the look of a temporary parking restriction where
       there is normally no restriction, so needs a traffic order. It
       is not a parking suspension sign. So where is this sign in
       relation to the location of your car ? GSV links will help.
       The other thing is that I'm not sure if a red-route/clearway
       contravention can be enforced off the carriageway. Hopefully
       somebody on here can say whether I'm rignt or wrong.
       We seldom see non-London PCNs and the councils tend to be much
       more dozy even than London councils ! So I wouldn't be surprised
       if this PCN is total nonsense.
       #Post#: 89065--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Council PCN fake evidence
   DIR By: Mylifestory
       Date: September 9, 2025, 4:23 am
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       Their evidence sign was nowhere on that rd. Another person who
       also got a ticket went and checked today, the lamp posts are
       very fat and nothing like the 1 this sign is on. None of us were
       on the road as you can never park there, it's a major highway.
       This area is very raised off it and a daily parking area, pic as
       below. I also believe it is total nonsense as you say, just need
       to know how to word it
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       #Post#: 89069--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Council PCN fake evidence
   DIR By: H C Andersen
       Date: September 9, 2025, 4:45 am
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       OP, let's park the conspiracy theories pl: as regards local
       government, when given the choice between c**k-up and
       conspiracy, put your money on c**k-up!
       See this:
  HTML https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5c78f895e5274a0ebfec719b/traffic-signs-manual-chapter-03.pdf
       So, three types of clearway, only one of which applies to
       verges, if indeed this was your contravention.
       Dear Sir,
       PCN *******
       My grounds of representation are that the contravention did not
       occur and these are borne out by the PCN and the authority's own
       photographic evidence.
       The stated PCN contravention is 'Stopped where prohibited (on a
       red route or clearway).'
       In order to substantiate this allegation, the CEO would have to
       believe that my vehicle was 'stopped', as defined and which is
       NOT synonymous with waiting, and was so in a length of road
       subject to a red route or clearway prohibition.
       Of the authority's 5 photos, 4 show my car stationary and
       therefore prima facie 'stopped'. However, none of the other
       photos shows any evidence of a 'red route'. As regards whether I
       was 'stopped on a clearway', none of the authority's photos
       shows my car on a carriageway subject to a 'clearway'
       prohibition and as the authority should know stopping on the
       verge of a 'clearway' is not a contravention in any event.
       I now refer to the fifth of the photos, namely a sign indicating
       a 'waiting' restriction whose evidential value I am at a loss to
       understand given that 'waiting' is not the alleged contravention
       and a 'no waiting sign' cannot be used to create a 'no stopping'
       prohibition.
       I think it's clear that the CEO has made a mistake as the
       alleged contravention did not occur the PCN must be cancelled.
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