Barnet High Street, towards the common, had been left to get in a terrible state with potholes everywhere and lines absolutely worn away. You can't be sure if this is where a bay is meant to be marked or if there is a single yellow line nor where one changes to the other. In such a situation no PCN should be issued but of course it was, to Miss B who takes advantage of free parking when she can.
The receipt of the PCN is unclear, Mr Mustard came to this at the Notice to Owner stage. It was dated 17 February 2026
Mr Mustard posted the formal representations off on 24 February. Barnet Council get 56 days, by law, in which to respond.
Come 26 March nothing had been heard in response to the representation, that the lines, whatever they were, were too far gone. What did arrive, and this had never happened before, was a second Notice to Owner, which Mr Mustard felt must be a procedural impropriety which is a guaranteed cancellation at the tribunal:
Fortunately Mr Mustard has the ear of a parking manager, even if the manager doesn't like anything arriving in it, but he nearly always reacts very quickly and fixes things which are wrong. Mr Mustard suspected this was a software error at APCOA who had taken over enforcement on 1 December 2025 and just 3 days after the pointed out the unusual event the PCN was zero and Mr Mustard was told the matter was being looked into.
It can't have been a large number of errors as otherwise more people would have come to Mr Mustard.
The end.
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