At first Mr Mustard thought that the driver had made the classic error of putting half the car on a single yellow and half on double yellows (nearly always a mistake, get your whole car within one type of bay or line) but then having looked at the road in question he found a spot which was as below.
Logically you can't have two different numbers of lines which apply to the same place in space as they have different rules and the motorist must have certainty. You will note that the adjudicator referred to 'ambiguity'.
Yellow lines are generally held by adjudicators to apply from the edge to the middle of the carriageway therefore they don't apply to the direction of traffic flow but across the road.
Thus Newham Council should not have painted the double yellow lines along the sides of the built out island but only across the part nearest the gap left for traffic. This was a painting design error compounded by a lack of insight in the parking PCN back office.
The PCN should never have been issued, the representations should not have been rejected, the Appeal should not have been contested.
Will Mr Mustard still be writing about Newham Council not knowing what they are doing on 1 January 2027?
Sadly, he probably will.
The end.
