Keep in touch if you struggle to pay

Here is the location in question, the same signs are back to back so this makes a virtual barrier, one the council makes a mint from by not installing rising bollards but installing a camera instead.

Mr X, whose identity Mr Mustard is at pains to hide and thus he has edited the place descriptions and removed small pieces of other information in the representation made to Islington Council but you still have the gist of the plea for mitigation - health and financial problems.

 

That was a considered request for clemency coupled with the promise of future compliance which is what councils claim to be their aim, not revenue raising. Mercy came there none.

A templated start to the rejection, the gap after 'letter' should probably say 'of dd/mm/yyyy' and besides, it was an email.

Not 100% accurate as relevant permit holders are allowed through.

The email has now been described as a letter and this paragragh was clearly a bespoke one. Some boroughs do let all blue badge holders through these restrictions as this restriction means resident blue badge holders can leave through the square but the wider group of disabled people can't do so, they will have to go around, if they know the way. If you do have genuine business on the other side of the barrier, perhaps a visit to your physio who lives and works there, it would be helpful if diversion signs were posted. AMW permits are issued to blue badge holders who live within:

 

Pish, this is over egging the danger. Police cars, ambulances, fire engines can all hell through, dustbin lorries can rumble through, cyclists should abound, blue badge residents will be driving there. Any motorist can drive into Lloyd Square turn around and leave again, there are parking bays on all four sides. Mr Mustard recommends you stick to the pavement if on foot.

The London Gazette, the Official Public Record of traffic orders, says the order is experimental and recent:

This is the most extraordinary statement which Mr Mustard has ever seen within a Notice of Rejection, a document which must have certain statutory content and then 'may contain such other information as the enforcing authority consider appropriate'. What is appropriate about saying the motorist should 'keep in touch'? 

Is this meant to be a friendly gesture but why? as the writer (whose name Mr Mustard is not releasing) has the power to cancel the PCN and has not done so. It isn't as if the stated illnesses are likely to change within the 28 day deadline or that Universal Credit or PiP payments will skyrocket.

Mr Mustard thinks that we may have run over a parking officer with a conscience and perhaps they didn't like the message their boss told them to write so decided to soften it a bit but without a clear indication of Islington's policy for the impecunious then these rather odd words about keeping in touch are pointless. Islington Council didn't have a policy on the exercise of discretion when Mr Mustard asked them a year ago.

Mr Mustard has accepted the invitation to start an Appeal to the independent adjudicator for which he has a technical argument which he will tell you later, if it works.

Finally, before you say the driver is an idiot who doesn't know his road signs, we are all conditioned by what we see. If you shop at Sainsburys in North Finchley and travel there by car, you have, for years, been driving into Ravensdale Avenue from the High Road as that is the only way you can turn into the supermarket car park. Look out of your windscreen and what do you see?

That is correct, no motor vehicle should enter Ravensdale Avenue, the plate below is an error, not being a permitted variant, the round sign already banning all vehicles, whether above or below the stated weight. No-one who lives in this street should be driving home. The same sign, without the weight plate, is at the other end of the road so zero traffic should enter from the eastern end. If Barnet Council can't even keep their signs correct, what chance the motoring public especially if you have entered Ravensdale Avenue a hundred times without receiving a penalty charge notice.

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