PCN from London Borough of Barking and Dagenham

bikeman17

Helllo all, 
I would like your thoughts comments and advice on a parking situation. 
I parked my car at 1am in the night on the pavement of Pickering Road, Barking IG11 8PG. 
Parking on the pavement used to be permissible. However, after receiving a PCN the next morning I noticed this is no longer allowed.
Google Streetview will show parking on the pavement was allowed as I have previously parked there with no issues.
It's been a week since PCN was issued and I have a further 7 days before the fine is doubled to £130.
The appeal I wish to make is that there are no clear signs restricting motorists from parking on the left side of the road/on pavement.

Please could you advise me if I should appeal, and if so the legal reason why it was incorrect to issue the fine.
If there is a template letter for this please could you share the link.

I have also attached photos of the road where the car was parked for reference.

Many thanks

Google Street View


Current parking situation
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No signs of parking restrictions 1


No signs of parking restrictions 2

Fruitcake

If this was a council PCN then you would be better taking this over to our friends on pepipoo.com as they are the council and police motoring specialists, whereas we concentrate on private parking charges here on MSE.

You will need to sign up on pepipoo with a non-hotmail email address before reading the FAQs and then posting both sides of your PCN with your query.

KeithP

You've shown us a Google Street View image. Can you now please show us a picture of your parked vehicle?

It does seem strange that in your photos there are plenty of parked cars on the right hand side, yet nothing is parked on the left.

bikeman17

KeithP said:

You've shown us a Google Street View image. Can you now please show us a picture of your parked vehicle?

It does seem strange that in your photos there are plenty of parked cars on the right hand side, yet nothing is parked on the left.

Thanks for your comment. 
The Google street view is an old photo taken earlier this year. 
The cars parked on the right has always been legal as permit is required 7 days a week. 
When queried with the locals they said recently the council has re introduced the cycle lane hence why you'll see new cycle lane route numbers. 

Unfortunately I didn't take a picture of my car as I moved away from the location in the morning. 

KeithP

bikeman17 said:

KeithP said:

You've shown us a Google Street View image. Can you now please show us a picture of your parked vehicle?

It does seem strange that in your photos there are plenty of parked cars on the right hand side, yet nothing is parked on the left.

Unfortunately I didn't take a picture of my car as I moved away from the location in the morning. 

Surely the council gave you a picture of your vehicle showing the alleged transgression?

bikeman17 said:

KeithP said:

You've shown us a Google Street View image. Can you now please show us a picture of your parked vehicle?

It does seem strange that in your photos there are plenty of parked cars on the right hand side, yet nothing is parked on the left.

When queried with the locals they said recently the council has re introduced the cycle lane hence why you'll see new cycle lane route numbers. 

Yes, they show on your pictures - 'C42'.
And that 'C42' can also be seen on the April 2022 GSV image, so not that new.  

But as already said, Pepipoo is the best place to progress this.

cardinal1962

Have a look at this view: nxVgnb9Hp6CJCair8. See the green asphalt? See the (two) cycle decals? See the raised dividing strip? See the "END" marking? Same sort of thing here TsGTJBh7nAiDWezk8. This is quite clearly a segregated cycle track, isn't it? It's been there for donkeys years. Why does anyone think parking on a cycle track (on the pavement) is allowed? The fact that you have got away with it before does not assist your case.

The "C42" marking on the carriageway is irrelevant. It's just a route designation and it post dates the cycle track by many years.

(forum won't let me post links)

Le_Kirk

Did you mean to post on this thread from 2023?

James_Poisson

cardinal1962 said:

Have a look at this view: nxVgnb9Hp6CJCair8. See the green asphalt? See the (two) cycle decals? See the raised dividing strip? See the "END" marking? Same sort of thing here TsGTJBh7nAiDWezk8. This is quite clearly a segregated cycle track, isn't it? It's been there for donkeys years. Why does anyone think parking on a cycle track (on the pavement) is allowed? The fact that you have got away with it before does not assist your case.

The "C42" marking on the carriageway is irrelevant. It's just a route designation and it post dates the cycle track by many years.

(forum won't let me post links)

As Le_Kirk has stated very strange you have signed up on here recently and your first post is on a thread that is over two years old and totally out of context with the usual private parking enquiries dealt with on here!