Double Yellow Line on a dropped Kerb

zwypl

Outside a dropped kerb into an institution Hackney put a double yellow line. A car of the site manager was parking on the double yellow lines and towed away contravention 01.

1. Is it an excuse that the institute that is the one that the line sare intended for needed their manager to park there?
2. Is the contravention correct to be 01?

muckybutt

Code 01 "parked in a restricted street during prescribed times" suggests to me that this is within a CPZ

Dy's mean No Parking at any time:
http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/TravelAndTransport/Highwaycode/DG_069860?CID=TAT&PLA=url_mon&CRE=highwaycode_parking
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You MUST NOT wait or park on yellow lines during the times of operation shown on nearby time plates (or zone entry signs if in a Controlled Parking Zone) – see 'Information signs' and 'Road markings'. Double yellow lines indicate a prohibition of waiting at any time even if there are no upright signs.

peter_the_piper

DYL's are a no parking at any time. However there are still rules the council have to follow. Post on pepipoo and copy all sises of all paperwork, pics of kerb etc. follow stickies on how to post pictures.

zwypl

It is a dropped kerb with a double yellow line but not a CPZ.

Coupon-mad

zwypl wrote: »

It is a dropped kerb with a double yellow line but not a CPZ.

You would be best posting on pepipoo but keep your questions to one thread there. Start and keep updated, a single new topic here with pictures of the PCN front and back, all small print, and all paperwork obtained from the pound, and a pic of the lines & signs where the vehicle was parked:

http://forums.pepipoo.com/index.php?showforum=30

Where a car is towed, there is absolutely no reason NOT to appeal of course, as the money has been paid and you may as well try to get it back. There are usually 2 arguments straight away, in addition to anything else such as flaws with the lines/signs/PCN/Council procedures/Order. The usual 2 points would be:

- to ask the Council to show that they considered the Chief Adjudicator's guidance which states the circumstances under which a vehicle should be towed (last resort, only where it's causing an obstruction and not where a PCN alone would have been sufficient to deal with the alleged contravention). Pepipoo posters can point you to the correct wording as that's just my summing up of it!

- to state that the PCN allows for an appeals procedure which was bypassed unlawfully, by virtue of HAVING to pay the PCN cost to get the vehicle back. This is an argument used a lot on pepipoo and Council's do not seem to like it! But most people get their tow & PCN money back!