Covid-19 PCN with late/no notice to driver.

diaspora85

Hi All,

Need some advice please, received two PCN within Newham dated 31/05 and 1/06 but issued for contravention code 165 (dedicated disabled bay), outside of residential parking operation times (0800 - 1830 Mon to Sat) according to Newham's website all parking enforcement was suspended including car compound only dangerously parked or vehicles causing an obstruction would be relocated. The issue I have is I'm keyworker with a disabled son that still had to attend school Mondays to Fridays. As lockdown began my son was issued his first blue badge vaild from 27/03. I had not been able to even start my application nor would it have been processed in time. As I discovered via my research into the process of getting a disabled parking permit, takes six months or longer according to Newham's own website. Firstly you must successfully apply and be issued a disabled parking bay first before applying for the permit itself. I understand that disabled resident bays may be in operation all the time normally, but I'm not even sure the bay in which I parked is even an active disabled resident parking bay. As there are no fully visible road markings including "disabled" wording or designated box markings. On top of this its been 30 days and I still have not received my notice to driver.

So my questions are how should I proceed?

and what should I be saying?

Can it be voided due to breach of an overlapped time period of issuing notice to driver?

I dunno please just help I don't have £260 going spare.

Thank you

Coupon-mad

That is the most faded disabled bay I've ever seen on street!

But the experts about appealing LA PCNs are on pepipoo forum:

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

No hotmail emails allowed on there,  register free, and post some pics of the PCN (both sides..yes, the back!) on pepipoo as they know more than most of us do about LA PCNs.