School Street ticket outside the restricted hours
A School Street restriction only applies during set windows — usually about 30 minutes around the start and end of the school day, and only on days when the school is open. If your ticket was issued outside those hours, on a weekend, during a school holiday, on an INSET day, or on a bank holiday, there was no offence taking place. A ticket issued at any other time is wrong.
Legal basis
Specific TRO operating-hours clauses; TMA 2004 s.78; Education Act 1996 (school holiday calendar)
How to identify this in your case
PCN timestamp vs (a) published operating hours, (b) school's term dates / INSET days, (c) bank holidays.
Sample appeal wording
Dear Sir/Madam, Re: PCN [NUMBER] — School Streets — [DATE/TIME] I challenge this PCN. The alleged contravention occurred outside the published operating hours. - PCN time: [TIME] on [DATE] - Published operating hours: [e.g. 'Mon-Fri 08:30-09:15 and 14:45-15:45, school days only'] - [DATE] was [a Saturday / school holiday / INSET day / outside the time window by [X] minutes] Reference: School Streets Order [REF] at [URL]. The school's term dates page confirms school was closed. Under s.78 TMA 2004, a PCN may only be issued for a contravention that has occurred. The restriction was not in force at this time. Please cancel. Yours faithfully, [NAME]
Replace [PARKING DATE], [NtK DATE] etc. with your own dates before sending.
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