On Street Parking Contraventions (higher rate)
These PCNs are issued at the higher rate of £130.00 / £65.00.
01 - Parked in a restricted street during prescribed hours.
Parked on single or double yellow lines or where temporary waiting restrictions apply. Suffix O means Blue Badge Holder, Suffix A means temporary waiting restrictions (no lines needed but signed with cones and yellow corex signs) usually for street cleansing or resurfacing.
02 - Parked or loading/unloading in a restricted street where waiting and loading/unloading restrictions are in force.
Parked on single or double yellow lines with additional yellow 'no loading' kerb stripes. Single stripes means loading prohibited between certain times. Double kerb stripes mean ‘at any time’.
11 - Parked without payment of the parking charge.
Valid in bays which only accept phone payment parking. Suffix U refers to a payment made by phone.
12 - Parked in a residents' or shared use parking place without either clearly displaying a valid permit or voucher or pay and display ticket issued for that place, or without payment of the parking charge.
Must be parked clearly displaying a valid resident/visitor permit, pay and display ticket or phone payment session in place, depending on which of those the parking place accepts. Suffix R refers to resident permit bays, Suffix S refers to shared use bays, Suffix W means wrong parking zone.
14 - Parked in an electric vehicles’ charging place during restricted hours without charging.
Vehicle must be fully electric and must be charging.
16 - Parked in a permit space or zone without a valid virtual permit or clearly displaying a valid physical permit where required.
Applies to non-resident parking such as business permit (suffix B), doctor (suffix D) and car club bays (suffix E).
21 - Parked wholly or partly in a suspended bay or space.
Be on the lookout for yellow corex signs which explain where and for how long the suspension applies. Suffixes are for resident permit bays (suffix R) shared use bays (suffix S) or pay and display bay (suffix P).
22 - Re-parked in the same parking place or zone within one hour after leaving.
You must not return to the same parking place within one hour of leaving it (usually applies to limited waiting parking bays).
23 - Parked in a parking place or area not designated for that class of vehicle.
The main suffixes are 23(2) for Goods vehicles only, suffix G for motorcycle bays.
25 - Parked in a loading place or bay during restricted hours without loading.
Loading bays are for loading and unloading only.
26 - Parked in a special enforcement area more than 50 cm from the edge of the carriageway and not within a designated parking place.
At least one part of the vehicle must be within 50cm of the edge of the carriageway.
27 - Parked in a special enforcement area adjacent to a footway, cycle track or verge lowered to meet the level of the carriageway
The whole of Greater London is a special enforcement area. Vehicle must be parked at least partially in front of a kerb which has been lowered for a driveway or pedestrian crossing purposes.
28 - Parked in a special enforcement area adjacent to a footway, cycle track or verge raised to meet the level of the carriageway.
The whole of Greater London is a special enforcement area. Parked at least partially in front of a pedestrian crossing point which is characterised by a raised carriageway.
40 - Parked in a designated disabled person’s parking place without displaying a valid disabled person’s badge in the prescribed manner.
Self-explanatory.
45 - Stopped on a taxi rank.
This is a stopping rather than parking contravention.
46 – Stopped where prohibited (on a red route or clearway).
This is a stopping rather than parking contravention.
47 - Stopped on a restricted bus stop or stand.
This is a stopping rather than parking contravention.
48 - Stopped in a restricted area outside a school, a hospital or a fire, police or ambulance station when prohibited.
This refers to vehicles which stop rather than park and is marked by yellow zig-zag markings.
55 - A commercial vehicle parked in a restricted street in contravention of the Overnight Waiting Ban.
Applies to commercial vehicles weighing over 5 tons parked on the street between 6.30pm and 8am, daily.
61 - A heavy commercial vehicle wholly or partly parked on a footway, verge or land between two carriageways
Vehicle must be parked with all four wheels on the carriageway, with a very limited exemption for loading or unloading.
62 - Parked with one or more wheels on or over a footpath or any part of a road other than a carriageway
Vehicle must be parked with all four wheels on the carriageway unless in a marked bay, with a very limited exemption for loading or unloading. Suffix C applies to crossovers, and Suffix G for grass verge.
63 - Parked with engine running where prohibited
Awaiting official Department for Transport signage.
99 - Stopped on a pedestrian crossing or crossing area marked by zigzags
This is a stopping rather than parking contravention.
