Can I challenge a PCN if my driveway was blocked?

LightningBolt

This must be a pretty common scenario, so I'm puzzled that I can't seem to find anything about it online by a quick search.

Not infrequently, cars block my driveway.  There is a dropped kerb.  No H bar, but a double yellow line across the whole width of my driveway and for a few metres beyond it (albeit just less than the length of many cars).

On the roads where I live, parking is restricted to 1 hour during the daytime.

Sometimes it is when my car is in it so I can't get it out.  In those situations, I would sometimes call the police about it, especially if I need to get my car out within the next hour or so.  But at other times, it will be when my car isn't in there.  This may be either when I'm just returning home or after I return home in the evening, when the restriction doesn't apply, and leave my car on the road.  Since I have a very narrow driveway, so getting my car in and out is somewhat painstaking, I sometimes do this with the intention of driving out again in the morning (before I hit the 1-hour limit from when the restriction comes back into force) or moving back into my driveway later.

My question is: If I get a PCN for parking on the road beyond the 1-hour limit because my driveway was blocked, would the fact be considered reasonable grounds to waive the PCN?

(Hopefully the warden would have ticketed the illegally parked car, but this can't be guaranteed, e.g. if said car was moved before the warden came and I was either out or just not yet aware of the fact.  But my question applies either way.)

Coupon-mad

No it would not be considered as relevant.

FlorayG

Sadly no because two wrongs don't make a right