PCN in Parking Zone - Appeal on Entry & Exit signs?

samppatel

PCN issued:  contravention 12 - Parked in a residents' or shared use parking place or zone without a valid virtual permit or clearly displaying a valid physical permit or voucher or pay and display ticket issued for that place where required, or without payment of the parking.

Last week I got a PCN in a parking zone whilst I was parked.  I had no idea I was in a parking zone and no signs were present in the vicinity of the spot where I parked, not any road markings.  I only later discovered I was a parking zone.  I had not noticed the sign below entering the parking zone as its quite small and to me doesn't indicate a parking zone.  Moreover, the location where I parked is some 500m away from this sign and on a side road and quite a few streets/turns away.




I am trying to formulate an appeal.  According to the TSRGD 2002 (see below) this sign doesn't seem to comply with a sign from clause (a)(ii) below (which I presume is dictates that I was in a zone as no street signage was present).

A Controlled Parking Zone is defined by The Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2002 ("TSRGD 2002") which states:
"controlled parking zone" means either -
      (a) an area -
            (i) in which, except where parking places have been provided, every road has been marked with one or more of the road markings shown in diagrams 1017, 1018.1, 1019 and 1020.1; and
            (ii) into which each entrance for vehicular traffic has been indicated by the sign shown in diagram 663 or 663.1; or
      (b) an area -
            (i) in which at least one of the signs shown in diagram 640.2A has been placed on each side of every road; and
            (ii) into which each entrance for vehicular traffic has been indicated by the sign shown in diagram 665;

Also, there where I eventually exited the zone there is no Zone End signage but the sign below (there is an Entry sign stating 'Permit holders only parking beyond this point).

Do I have any grounds for an appeal ????

Thanks in advance for your assistance.

Umkomaas

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Have a read through some of the other threads there before you post your own to get the hang of what information they need from you in your opening post - but as a minimum you will need to post redacted photos/scans of all correspondence you've received from the council (both sides, if appropriate) as they need to see all the small print.

Coupon-mad

Ask pepipoo experts if this is the right contravention code because I think it isn't:

contravention 12 - Parked in a residents' or shared use parking place or zone without a valid virtual permit or clearly displaying a valid physical permit or voucher or pay and display ticket issued for that place where required, or without payment of the parking.

I think it should be parked in a permit place without a permit but could be wrong!