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Re: Richmond Council - PCN Contravention 06P - Parked without
valid pay & display ticket
DIR By: stamfordman
Date: August 1, 2026, 6:18 am
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A winner but the adjudicator is wrong about code 12 as it's not
a shared use bay. only a pay bay.
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Case reference
Appellant
Authority
VRM
PCN Details
PCN
Contravention date
Contravention time
Contravention location
Penalty amount
Contravention
Referral date
Decision Date
Adjudicator
Appeal decision
Direction
cancel the Penalty Charge Notice.
Reasons
Mr xxxx attended this Teams appeal hearing. The authority did
not attend the hearing.
Mr xxxx relied on his written grounds of appeal.
‘The traffic sign is incorrect (see attached);
2) The contravention code (06P) is incorrect and hence the
contravention did not occur.
The traffic sign in evidence states: Pay at machine. Display
ticket.
The machine accepts payment and advises that parking rights may
also be obtained via RingGo, which is also confirmed on the
council's website.
The alleged contravention is that of failing to display a
ticket, NOT failure to pay.
The actual wording of the contravention cannot be correct in
that the parking place
accepts phone payment and therefore not displaying something
whose display is optional cannot be correct, surely. Likewise
the sign doesn't reflect the option to pay by phone.
It therefore follows that:
The traffic sign in evidence is incorrect because display of a
ticket is not an obligation;
and
The contravention is wrong for the same reasons.’
He explained that he parked for over 5 minutes to buy medicine
for his child. He did not attempt to pay for parking by any
method.
He suggested that the officer explicitly sanctioned parking
without payment for 5 minutes.
The officer’s notes record the driver returning after the
penalty charge notice was issued. The notes do not corroborate
sanctioning parking without payment in a clearly signed pay bay.
In the absence of corroboration, I find that no parking without
payment was sanctioned.
The civil enforcement officer’s notes that the vehicle was
parked without online payment and without a valid pay and
display ticket clearly on display between 09.39 to 09.45.
The officer’s photographs establish that the pay machine in
question accepted payment at the machine. Signage established
that online payment was also accepted via an app.
The contravention code relied on in this instance was’ Parked
without clearly displaying a valid pay & display ticket or
voucher’
The applicable contravention code according to London Councils
Penalty Charge Notices: Contravention Code List is:
‘12 arstuwy4 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.’
This is so because signage clearly stated that payment was
required with different options as to how to do so.
The appeal is allowed .
#Post#: 126460--------------------------------------------------
Re: Richmond Council - PCN Contravention 06P - Parked without
valid pay & display ticket
DIR By: tincombe
Date: August 1, 2026, 7:00 am
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HTML https://londontribunals.org.uk/ords/pwslive/f?p=14952:70::INITIALISE::70:P70_CAS_REFNO,P70_PCN_REFNO,P70_RETURN_PAGE,P70_AST_CODE:1739628,3157105,60,APPEAL&cs=3t8EisOU_r-PYm0tD0gpmpaSA6XX5_HnfwCRsNvWcbgkgj--EecA36UQOt3pAbcqchM2Ueo1VQXWr-5yI5midZQ
Not the most lucid decision I've read!
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Re: Richmond Council - PCN Contravention 06P - Parked without
valid pay & display ticket
DIR By: Johnsmith86
Date: August 1, 2026, 1:36 pm
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Many thanks to the forum for their assistance with this even if
it was a 'strange decision' by the adjudicator :)
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