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Re: Barking & Dagenham - Code 62 - Parked on footpath -
Greenside
DIR By: Etihad
Date: March 3, 2026, 8:13 pm
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--- Quote from: stamfordman link ---
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> There are several points.
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> This council widely uses footway parking often badly signed
and this area has widespread footway parking. This can mean they
have a longstanding resolution disapplying the London footway
parking ban along entire streets.
>
> There are marked footway bays on the traffic order map but the
order does not specify 2 or 4 wheel up bays only resident permit
bays.
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> Are there any footway parking signs in any part of the road.
>
> Where were you on this map:
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Apologies for the late reply. I flew back from KSA yesterday
just before KSA airspace was restricted.
There were no other footway parking signs on the road.
I parked here ( marked by the green dot ). This is the same spot
on GSV where the Corsa for sale is parked :
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#Post#: 111989--------------------------------------------------
Re: Barking & Dagenham - Code 62 - Parked on footpath -
Greenside
DIR By: Etihad
Date: March 3, 2026, 8:18 pm
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The council has also sent a rejection letter on Friday :
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#Post#: 112004--------------------------------------------------
Re: Barking & Dagenham - Code 62 - Parked on footpath -
Greenside
DIR By: tincombe
Date: March 4, 2026, 4:26 am
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Your choices are to pay the discount or fight on at
£140(although it's possible that the discount could still be
re-offered).
The former is in your hands, the latter with the registered
keeper to whom a NTO would be issued.
Are you the registered keeper with current DVLA details?
#Post#: 112088--------------------------------------------------
Re: Barking & Dagenham - Code 62 - Parked on footpath -
Greenside
DIR By: stamfordman
Date: March 4, 2026, 1:11 pm
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This wording from our admin on a previous case gives some ideas.
The footway markings aren't good enough to say where the bays
are is one point.
Note the part about the resolution.
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Dear London Borough of Barking and Dagenham,
I challenge liability on the ground that the alleged
contravention did not occur. There are footway parking bays on
Cavendish Gardens and footway parking has been permitted for
over a decade. If you look at the latest images from Google
street view at
HTML https://maps.app.goo.gl/c1LSrTRKcJhJVxwH8
you can
actually see my car parked on the right in exactly the same
position as it was when the penalty charge notice was issued.
There are 11 Google Street View captures between September 2008
and March 2022 and in every single instance cars can be seen
parked with two wheels on the footpath, this combined with the
presence of footway parking bays and the fact that there has to
my knowledge never been any footway parking enforcement led me
to understand that footway parking is in fact permitted on this
road, as it always has been.
Certainly if the local authority has decided to prohibit footway
parking, or restrict footway parking to marked bays only, I
would expect the local authority to take steps to inform road
users of this change, this would normally be done by the use of
signs prescribed by diagram 667.1 together with an auxiliary
panel stating "In marked bays", however no such signs are
present on the road. I would also have expected local residents
to be consulted on this change, but I have not received any
notification in this regard.
In any event as footway parking is permitted on at least some
parts of Cavendish Gardens, the local authority must have passed
a resolution under section 15(4) of the Greater London Council
(General Powers) Act 1974, and I cannot know if I was in breach
of the terms of the resolution without seeing a copy. Therefore
if you a minded to refuse this representation, I request that
you provide a copy of the resolution so that I may satisfy
myself that the footway parking bays are correctly marked on the
road.
#Post#: 112209--------------------------------------------------
Re: Barking & Dagenham - Code 62 - Parked on footpath -
Greenside
DIR By: Etihad
Date: March 5, 2026, 6:06 pm
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--- Quote from: tincombe link ---
>
> Your choices are to pay the discount or fight on at
£140(although it's possible that the discount could still be
re-offered).
>
> The former is in your hands, the latter with the registered
keeper to whom a NTO would be issued.
>
> Are you the registered keeper with current DVLA details?
>
--- End Quote ---
I choose to fight on.
Yes, I am the registered keeper and my address is current with
DVLA.
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Re: Barking & Dagenham - Code 62 - Parked on footpath -
Greenside
DIR By: Etihad
Date: March 5, 2026, 6:10 pm
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--- Quote from: stamfordman link ---
>
> This wording from our admin on a previous case gives some
ideas. The footway markings aren't good enough to say where the
bays are is one point.
>
> Note the part about the resolution.
>
> ----------
>
> Dear ...
>
--- End Quote ---
Thank you. I will add some points from here when I recieve the
NTO.
#Post#: 113838--------------------------------------------------
Re: Barking & Dagenham - Code 62 - Parked on footpath -
Greenside
DIR By: Etihad
Date: March 20, 2026, 8:47 am
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I am on holiday for 20 days. Hopefully, I have time to submit
formal representtaion upon my return.
#Post#: 113865--------------------------------------------------
Re: Barking & Dagenham - Code 62 - Parked on footpath -
Greenside
DIR By: stamfordman
Date: March 20, 2026, 12:30 pm
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An NTO gives you 28 days from date of service to make reps so
you should be ok.
#Post#: 116635--------------------------------------------------
Re: Barking & Dagenham - Code 62 - Parked on footpath -
Greenside
DIR By: Etihad
Date: April 21, 2026, 11:47 pm
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Good morning.
No news is good news. But, I have yet to receive a letter in the
post!
#Post#: 116679--------------------------------------------------
Re: Barking & Dagenham - Code 62 - Parked on footpath -
Greenside
DIR By: tincombe
Date: April 22, 2026, 6:39 am
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I'm still struggling with the photographic evidence, both yours
and theirs.
IMO,
There is a traffic sign which regulates a parking bay. In itself
this has NOTHING to do with footway parking*, it regulates a
parking bay. The default position is that the parking place(of
however many spaces) should be marked on the carriageway. But
there isn't one on the carriageway. Instead, there appear to be
some white blobs on the footway.
The council's position is that there is a clear and properly
demarcated parking place wholly/partly on the footway restricted
to Resident Permit Holders **** which not only reserves the
place to those holders but also allows parking on the footway.
This is nonsense in as much as there's a single yellow line at
the edge of the carriageway which prohibits waiting both on and
off the carriageway, so it's not possible to 'park' anywhere!
To them if you're within the parking place you're OK, but if
outside then you do not have an exemption from the footway
parking prohibition. In a way it's their equivalent of Floor's
Lava!
But IMO from all the photos it's impossible to see whether the
parking place is correctly marked and that you were parked
beyond its clear limits, thereby being parked in contravention
on the footway.
Can you take side-on photos which capture the sign and these
markings?
*- because it's not the sign prescribed for a parking place on
the footway but simply one on the carriageway!
On the carriageway: item 4 in the Part 4 sign table;
HTML https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/362/schedule/4
On the footway: items 2,6,7 etc in the above.
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