Appeals on street parking

If you believe that the Penalty Charge Notice (PCN), or parking ticket, you received should not have been issued or that there are special reasons why it should be cancelled, you can make a challenge against the PCN.

Send a challenge within 14 days of the issue date on the PCN using our appeal against a parking ticket online form or you can write to this address

Haringey Council Parking Service
P.O. Box 4789
Worthing
BN11 9QA

Please quote the Penalty Charge notice number and vehicle registration number in all your communications relating to parking tickets. We will aim to write to you with our decision within 21days from the receipt of your letter. During this period, all actions on the notice will be suspended until a full reply has been sent. If you have to pay we will give you 14 days at the discount rate.

If your correspondence is received by us after the 14 days allowed for payment of the ticket at the discount rate, and we cannot cancel the ticket, we will allow you 28 days from the date we reply to you to pay at the full rate.

If you do not make payment or write to challenge your parking ticket, we will send a Notice to Owner to the person who appears to be the registered keeper of the vehicle after 28 days have elapsed from the date the PCN was issued.

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Appealing on the Notice to Owner

You can make a formal representation to the Council only after receiving a Notice to Owner.

Representations may be made on the Notice to Owner on any of the following grounds:

• The alleged contravention did not occur.
  • Please explain why you think no contravention took place.
• I never was the owner of the vehicle or I was not the owner of the vehicle at the time of the alleged contravention or I became its owner after that date.
  • Where you ceased to be the owner of the vehicle before the date of the alleged contravention, you must include a statement of the name and address of the person to whom the vehicle was disposed of, if that information is in your possession. If you became the owner of the vehicle after that date, you must include a statement of the name and address of the person from whom the vehicle was acquired, if that information is in your possession. Please supply evidence of the disposal/acquisition (e.g. a sales receipt).
• The vehicle had been permitted to remain at rest in the place in question by a person who was in control of the vehicle without the consent of the owner.
  • Please enclose evidence (e.g. police crime report, insurance claim).
• I am/We are a hire firm and the vehicle in question was at the material time hired from the firm under a hiring agreement; and the person hiring it had signed a statement acknowledging liability in respect of any penalty charge involving the vehicle during the period of the hire agreement.
  • You must include a statement of the name and address of the person to whom the vehicle was hired at the material time. Please also supply a copy of the hire agreement and the hirer’s statement acknowledging his liability.
• The penalty charge exceeded the amount applicable in the circumstances of the case
  • If you think you are being asked to pay more than you should legally pay.
• There has been procedural impropriety on the part of the enforcement authority.
  • Please describe the alleged impropriety.
• The traffic order which is alleged to have been contravened was invalid.
  • Where you believe the parking restriction in question was invalid or illegal.
• The Notice to Owner should not have been served as the penalty charge had already been paid in full, or the reduced charge had been paid within the specified period.
  • Please provide details of the payment method, date and amount.
• Any other ground you wish to raise or details of any other mitigating circumstances.

The specific grounds of appeal are explained in more detail on the Notice to Owner form. Please be sure to send evidence to support your representations.

We will consider your representations and reply to you. If the ticket cannot be cancelled, you will be told the reason why. You can then either pay at the full rate, or appeal to the Parking and Traffic Appeals Service (the independent adjudicator) using the form that we will include in our response to your representations. If we accept your representations the ticket will be cancelled.

Appeals over the telephone will not be accepted.