Newham Council are Cheats - #15

 

Only the relevant part of the adjudicator's decision has been reproduced, it is on the tribunal website if you want to read the rest of it, and relates to procedural matters.

This is another instance of the sign which was photographed by the CEO (Civil Enforcement Officer or 'traffic warden') not being the one within the bay in which the car was parked.

There is no '30m rule'. There must be a sign within the bay. If the bay is only 50m long it might well have two signs, one at each end. If one is clear and the other painted over Mr Mustard thinks that signage would be regarded as adequate by an adjudicator.

In this case the CEO cheated by omission, failing to photograph the nearest sign and not showing the juxtaposition of the car to the sign relied upon, which Mr Mustard suspects was from a different bay. A council has to prove its case, only once they have done that does the motorist have to contest it.

Redbridge Council chance their arm

 

Khartoum Road

Another random decision which Mr Mustard came across.

 

One cannot look in two directions at once and there isn't much time whilst moving to look for other signs and given that the right hand one was, in effect, covered why would you expect the left hand one to be any different? The left hand sign is much harder to make out when turning right. The full sign is as follows and you need a few seconds to take it all in.

What councils often fail to mention is that there is a duty imposed on them by legislation which is to erect and maintain adequate signage.

This PCN should never have been issued never mind defended at the tribunal.

As it hppens Mr Mustard has just started an Appeal to the tribunal for a parking PCN in Khartoum Rd in which the sole sign was defaced. There is clearly a problem in this corner of Ilford; the solution is not to penalise the innocent but to catch the guilty.

The end.