Double Parking Charge Outside a Special Enforcement Area
The double-parking and dropped-kerb offences only exist inside a 'special enforcement area' — a status a council must specifically apply for and have designated by order under Schedule 10 of the Traffic Management Act 2004; it is not automatic, even in London. If the street where you were ticketed is not within a designated special enforcement area, sections 85 and 86 simply do not apply there and the PCN has no legal foundation.
Legal basis
Traffic Management Act 2004 s.85(1) (prohibition applies '[i]n a special enforcement area' only) and Schedule 10 (special enforcement areas exist only where designated by order on the authority's application, and only within a civil enforcement area)
How to identify this in your case
This applies mainly outside big cities or in areas where civil parking enforcement is recent. Ask the council (or check its website/legal orders) for the designation order making your street part of a special enforcement area. If the council cannot produce a designation order covering the location and date, the ticket fails.
Sample appeal wording
formal
Replace [PARKING DATE], [NtK DATE] etc. with your own dates before sending.
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