I've had a ticket for parking in a layby with no retrictions . . .

Paul_K_2

I've had a PCN for parking in a layby as you can see in the picture.

The layby has no signs whatsoever let alone any parking restrictions.

I appealed and that was rejected.

This is the reason they gave -

The highway extends building line to building line and therefore includes the footpath/grass verges.

This doesn't sound right to me, does anybody know if this is correct?

Thanks in advance for your reply!

Coupon-mad

They are correct.

You are in contravention of the double yellows. You can load/unload (of course, as that's exempt activity for a DYL restriction) but you can't park there.

marcia_

 There are double yellows right there 🤔 

Umkomaas

marcia_ said:

 There are double yellows right there 🤔 

The restrictions from which extend to the boundary behind them. 

user1977

Plus the "layby" doesn't even look like one designed for parking - that "grasscrete" surfacing is generally for rarely-used bits (e.g. vehicles for servicing billboards or something else next to the road).

James_Poisson

If you think about the practicalities of road markings if they took the DYLs around that layby  that would probably technically leave you an excuse to park in the road across it if there were no DYL's on that short section.

I used to work for a large brewery and interestingly (or boringly depending on your perspective) many of our town centre pubs that were Inns had a black cast iron plate on the wall stating that no public right of way exists over this land. Meaning the frontage belonged to the pub and you could park on the frontage, although driving over the pavement without a dropped kerb was another problem.

But to get back to your problem you will just have to suck it up and pay the fine before it goes up.