Welcome to www.PenaltyChargeNotice.co.uk
We are working flat out to complete what we anticipate will be the most comprehensive website in the country on enforcement of parking and moving traffic offences.
We have campaigned on behalf of motorists for over 10 years to have the current unfair and, in our opinion revenue orientated enforcement of parking and moving traffic offences by local councils and transport for London changed.
We have evidence of unfair and often illegal enforcement by enforcement authorities. We have had some successes along the way. We have been interviewed on BBC news, Radio 5, 3 counties and are often in the local and national press highlighting arrears where enforcement is being carried out unfairly and often illegally. The government know what is going on and “sympathise” but “we have no powers to intervene” says former transport minister Rosie Winterton. This has been reiterated by her successor Geoff Hoon. The government are completely uninterested in the persecution of the motorist and as a result local councils can act with total impunity.
Many motorists believe that we are in a police state with hidden cameras or traffic wardens hiding around corners just waiting to catch a minor transgression of the rules by a motorist in the name of profit.
Latest news:
Feburary 2010
Enforcement of Diplomatic bays could have been illegal
There are 344 Diplomatic bays in London of which 198 are in Westminster and 134 in Kensington and Chelsea. Because Diplomatic bays are not "standard bays" special permission is required from the department of transport.
January 2010
Westminster council have in principle decided to introduce parking charges until midnight in the central area and to stop parking on single yellow lines until midnight. they will also be increasing parking charges to up to £5 ph.
At a cabinet meeting at Westminster held on the 18th Jan they decided, in principle, to extend the charging and enforcement hours of the central controlled zones to Midnight Mon - Sat. They also decided to increase parking charges in most areas including a 100% increase in St Johns Wood and up to £5 ph in central London. This means that in central London which could include the F zone south of Marylebone Road as well as all other zones except B and C (which are north of Marylebone Road) motorists will have to pay up to £5 ph until midnight and will no longer be able to park on single yellow lines after 6.30pm as they to will operate until midnight. What does this mean. (except a massive increase in revenue for Westminster.
Many people will no longer visit shops, restaurants theatres, cinemas etc in the evening so many of these may well close.
December 2009 (updated 23 December 2009)
Warning - Boxing Day parking controls
Some councils such as Westminster Council and Kensington and Chelsea Council in London are charging for parking on Boxing day even though their signs say no charge on public holidays. We assume that they don't regard boxing day as a public holiday this year because it falls on a Saturday. Funny that because their libraries and Leisure centres are closed on Boxing day as "it is a Public Holiday".
All that is going to happen is that thousands of motorists are going to have their Christmas's tarnished by a £120 ticket.
Is your local council charging for on-street parking and imposing fines on Boxing Day?
November 2009
The M11 speed camera that has resulted in a near doubling of accidents. More...
October 2009
Westminster council internal report refers to ticket targets of 736,000 this year, loss of revenue, £11.4m surplus for the year,productivity levels and business plans! More
September 2009 (updated articles):
Westminster council pilots new scheme to allow anyone to park in residents bays. More...
Camden's Tickets ruled invalid. More...
04/08/09: CCTV issued parking fines cancelled as council did not place sufficient warning signs telling motorists that CCTV enforcement was in operation. More...
23/06/09: Westminster council pilots new scheme to allow anyone to park in residents bays. More...
14/05/08: Diabolical enforcement of moving traffic contraventions by Islington Council. More...
04/02/08: New parking guidance issued 31st March 2008. More...
05/01/09: The Sun:
The M11 speed camera that has resulted in a near doubling of accidents. Read the article...
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