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Wanstead, Redbridge PCN issued for car parked on a section of th
e road with no obvious parking restrictions
By: Chr1s100 Date: January 2, 2026, 9:15 am
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Council: Redbridge council
Alleged contravention: Code 16, parking in a permit space or
zone without a permit.
Location: Wellington Road, Wanstead, Redbridge
Just received a PCN on car windscreen parked on a section of the
road with no obvious parking restrictions.
The road has a section of double yellow lines, a section of
single yellow lines which also has a parking restriction sign,
and then a section of road with no markings or signs.
The car was parked on the section of road with no markings or
signs but received a yellow ticket on the windscreen regardless.
Photos attached of the layout described above including my car
parked as well as of the PCN. My car is the grey VW polo.
I would like to make an appeal and would like advice on the best
way to approach this. It seems fairly clear to me that if the
sign applies to the section of the road that the car was parked
on, then these signs and markings are not adequate and are
misleading because the single yellow line clearly ends before
where my car is parked, however, I am quite willing to believe
that putting just this information into an appeal may well not
be accepted and therefore I would like advice on how best to
approach this.
Please let me know if I have left out any required information,
thanks in advance for any help you can provide.
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- PCN
FRONT
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- PCN
BACK
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- Car
outside single yellow zone 1
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- Car
outside single yellow zone 2
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- Car
outside double yellow zone
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parking sign and single yellow line
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Re: Wanstead, Redbridge PCN issued for car parked on a section o
f the road with no obvious parking restrictions
By: stamfordman Date: January 2, 2026, 9:47 am
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Redbridge has put in a lot of permit parking areas - these have
entry and repeater signs but do not require kerbsides to be
marked with permit bays - exceptions to permits are signed bays
(eg pay pays).
So check what route you took and whether the PPA is of a
reasonable size - they should only be used in single or a few
streets in one PPA.
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#Post#: 104328--------------------------------------------------
Re: Wanstead, Redbridge PCN issued for car parked on a section o
f the road with no obvious parking restrictions
By: fraser.mitchell Date: January 2, 2026, 11:13 am
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Entrance to Wellesley Road from Herman Hill that Wellington Road
leads off:-
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and also entrance to Nelson Road off Herman Hill that Wellington
Road leads off at its other end: -
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Re: Wanstead, Redbridge PCN issued for car parked on a section o
f the road with no obvious parking restrictions
By: Chr1s100 Date: January 2, 2026, 11:26 am
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I have driven round and this is a map of the permit parking area
where each red line indicates an entrance point with two signs,
one on either side of the road.
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One of the two signs at the top of Wellington road is currently
at 90 degrees, so facing down the footpath.
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Re: Wanstead, Redbridge PCN issued for car parked on a section o
f the road with no obvious parking restrictions
By: fraser.mitchell Date: January 2, 2026, 11:29 am
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It's a large permit holders-only zone, way beyond what official
guidance suggests. On the other hand they seem to have put up
repeater signs in the zone. What was your approach ?
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Re: Wanstead, Redbridge PCN issued for car parked on a section o
f the road with no obvious parking restrictions
By: Chr1s100 Date: January 2, 2026, 12:29 pm
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I came down the road where the sign is twisted round, went round
the mini roundabout and parked up.
I've parked there before without any issues, not sure when the
last time was though and I don't know when they brought these
restrictions in.
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Re: Wanstead, Redbridge PCN issued for car parked on a section o
f the road with no obvious parking restrictions
By: stamfordman Date: January 2, 2026, 12:38 pm
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Redbridge is not very good at providing evidence to he tribunal
of its various zones.
If this is one zone it's not compliant with guidance in my view
and should not have any yellow lines. It should also have zone
ends signs on all exits. Repeater signs are obviously scattered
around but they are confusing as they are not adjacent to
parking bays.
Traffic map, traffic signs manual and a tribunal case below that
references that left hand sign.
They seem to have gone mad with these PPAs.
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Case reference 2250151042
Appellant xxxxxx
Authority London Borough of Redbridge
VRM KS23VYK
PCN Details
PCN AF08541629
Contravention date 14 Jan 2025
Contravention time 13:52:00
Contravention location Wellington Road
Penalty amount GBP 130.00
Contravention Parked resident/shared use without a valid permit
Referral date -
Decision Date 23 May 2025
Adjudicator Philippa Alderson
Appeal decision Appeal allowed
Direction
cancel the Penalty Charge Notice/Enforcement Notice.
Reasons
The Appellant is appealing a PCN issued in respect of parking in
a permit holder only zone during restricted hours at the
location.
The Appellant has attended the hearing.
The Council relies upon the contemporaneous evidence of the
Civil Enforcement Officer, a copy of the PCN, map/site report, a
copy of the relevant legislation and correspondence.
The Appellant contends that the signage at the entrance to
Wellington Road was not readily visible as it had been turned
sideway at the relevant time.
I have carefully considered all the evidence in this matter.
The CEO’s photographs show the vehicle parked and unattended on
an unmarked section of carriageway on Wellington Road. The CEO
has also provided a photograph of the signage relied upon.
However, the proximity of the signage to the vehicle cannot be
determined from the CEO's photographic evidence and the sign is
not readily obvious in any of the photographs of the vehicle
itself. One of the additional photographs provided by the
Council denotes, by way of yellow arrow, relevant signage in
relation to the vehicle, but such signage is on the opposite
side of the road and it would be reasonable of a driver not to
see/pay attention to such signage.
The Appellant has provided photographic evidence of relevant
signage at the entrance to Wellington Road from the High Street.
These photographs show this sign, on the left of the
carriageway, to be turned through some 90 degrees, to the extent
that I find it not to be sufficiently visible to drivers
entering the road. Whilst the Council's photographic evidence
shows there to be another similar sign on the right of the
carriageway, I am not satisfied that this right hand sign alone
is sufficient to indicate the restriction to drivers entering
the road. Once a driver has missed the entry point sign, that
driver may conclude, in the absence of road markings, that the
street is unrestricted.
I therefore allow this appeal.
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Re: Wanstead, Redbridge PCN issued for car parked on a section o
f the road with no obvious parking restrictions
By: Chr1s100 Date: January 3, 2026, 12:43 am
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Thanks very much,
Based on the information you've shared, there seem to be several
possible grounds for appealing based on the permit parking set
up itself, as well as an example where the left hand twisted
sign has been used successfully to appeal a PCN.
How would you recommend is best to take this forwards?
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Re: Wanstead, Redbridge PCN issued for car parked on a section o
f the road with no obvious parking restrictions
By: stamfordman Date: January 3, 2026, 12:59 pm
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So if you entered by that twisted sign did you turn left or
right into Wellington Road?
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Re: Wanstead, Redbridge PCN issued for car parked on a section o
f the road with no obvious parking restrictions
By: Chr1s100 Date: January 3, 2026, 2:37 pm
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I turned left into Wellington road from the high street, passed
the twisted sign at the end of the road (although didn't see any
signs at the time). I drove down that part of Wellington road
then went across the mini roundabout onto latter part of
Wellington road (which has no signs at either end of that
section) and parked up.
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