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#Post#: 98027--------------------------------------------------
Lambeth Council Code 01 parked in a restricted street during
prescribed hours - faded single yellow
DIR By: bimmerfan
Date: November 13, 2025, 11:39 am
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Hi all, looking for some advice if I should just pay these fines
or risk taking it to the tribunal as Lambeth council have
rejected my representation.
The driver unknowingly parked on a single yellow for two days
consecutively (someone removed the sticker on windscreen on the
first day so no knowledge of the first fine) The lines are very
faded and were covered with construction dust as there is a big
building site right next to where the vehicle was parked.
Link to pcn and pictures:
HTML https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1cosbhkGECLerzpYdSfzKiTzT1fUxQi7w?usp=sharing
GSV:
HTML https://maps.app.goo.gl/oFz3zZdqEawivKyQA
Thank you!
#Post#: 98066--------------------------------------------------
Re: Lambeth Council Code 01 parked in a restricted street during
prescribed hours - faded single yellow
DIR By: fraser.mitchell
Date: November 13, 2025, 5:36 pm
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There are no local signs, so one must assume you are in a
Controlled Parking Zone (CPZ).
Is it possible to post up your representations, please. The
rejection is their usual Fob-Off letter, which I assume has
re-offered the discount. London councils refuse almost all
informal challenges, because they know that people then just
cough-up to get the discount.
It is obvious that the yellow line is worn even without builders
dust covering it, but if you want to fight these PCNs the
council, (who keep all the money if you cough-up), will refuse
all reps until you register an appeal at London Tribunals when
they might give way, but the discount option will be long gone
by them.
FWIW, I think you have a reasonable case, but it is certainly
not a "slam-dunk" win, in my opinion.
#Post#: 98163--------------------------------------------------
Re: Lambeth Council Code 01 parked in a restricted street during
prescribed hours - faded single yellow
DIR By: bimmerfan
Date: November 14, 2025, 8:04 am
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I used the same appeal for both PCNs, here it is:
HTML https://ibb.co/Q7mSRSw6
#Post#: 98188--------------------------------------------------
Re: Lambeth Council Code 01 parked in a restricted street during
prescribed hours - faded single yellow
DIR By: Pastmybest
Date: November 14, 2025, 10:19 am
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Well if the council think that is a SYL then IMO your argument
that they are too badly degraded is reenforced because looking
carefully they are DYL
#Post#: 98282--------------------------------------------------
Re: Lambeth Council Code 01 parked in a restricted street during
prescribed hours - faded single yellow
DIR By: bimmerfan
Date: November 15, 2025, 11:30 am
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I don't believe it is DYL, just SYL
#Post#: 98295--------------------------------------------------
Re: Lambeth Council Code 01 parked in a restricted street during
prescribed hours - faded single yellow
DIR By: fraser.mitchell
Date: November 15, 2025, 1:26 pm
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--- Quote from: bimmerfan link ---
>
> I don't believe it is DYL, just SYL
>
--- End Quote ---
All the GSV views show a SYL
#Post#: 98845--------------------------------------------------
Re: Lambeth Council Code 01 parked in a restricted street during
prescribed hours - faded single yellow
DIR By: bimmerfan
Date: November 19, 2025, 11:16 am
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After viewing the GSV once again, I think I may have caught
something of contention? On rejection letter it states: Inside a
Controlled Zone, the information may be on Controlled Zone signs
instead. Controlled Zone signs are like border-crossing signs:
you will have passed one as you entered the zone. However, there
is only a sign that the controlled zone ends, the sign where the
controlled zone begins, is not the route that I took to park on
the road, here is the GSV of the sign:
HTML https://maps.app.goo.gl/LVWrLDuYoiJmxDS19
There are bollards blocking vehicles from going straight from
the CPZ start to the CPZ end, I have illustrated what I mean
here:
HTML https://ibb.co/jjpNWdx
Yellow is the route I took to park, CPZ sign start indicated in
Purple and where I parked in green, I note that there is no sign
for CPZ start anywhere along the yellow boundary from the exit
to where I was parked.
Therefore, from driving through the road to where the vehicle is
parked, there is only a sign for controlled zone ends, but at no
where do I see a sign for controlled zone.
Is this a feasible argument?
#Post#: 98882--------------------------------------------------
Re: Lambeth Council Code 01 parked in a restricted street during
prescribed hours - faded single yellow
DIR By: fraser.mitchell
Date: November 19, 2025, 2:08 pm
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The bottom line is that for the PCN to be valid you must have
passed a CPZ sign. There is no sign when you enter Bond Way, the
only way of getting to Miles Street using a car.
And as you now have the Notice to Owner, it is a no-brainer to
take them all the way to London Tribunals because the statutory
discount period has ended. You need to challenge them on their
statement about a CPZ sign because clearly there is no sign.
Never, ever think that London councils follow the process
correctly, or even at all; experience of this forum is they will
be mendacious and disingenuous in every letter they send out.
#Post#: 113666--------------------------------------------------
Re: Lambeth Council Code 01 parked in a restricted street during
prescribed hours - faded single yellow
DIR By: bimmerfan
Date: March 18, 2026, 8:49 pm
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Just to give an update, I took the PCNs to London Tribunals when
Lambeth council informed the Tribunal that it will not contest
my appeal, therefore all the PCNs were cancelled!
#Post#: 113688--------------------------------------------------
Re: Lambeth Council Code 01 parked in a restricted street during
prescribed hours - faded single yellow
DIR By: fraser.mitchell
Date: March 19, 2026, 4:55 am
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Very well done !
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