Yellow Line Loading Ban Not Marked on the Kerb

A ban on loading is a separate restriction from the yellow line itself and must be indicated by short yellow 'blip' marks across the kerb (single blips for part-time bans, double for at-all-times bans), normally with a 'No loading' plate. If you were ticketed for loading in a restricted street (code 02) but there were no kerb marks or plates indicating a loading ban where you stopped, the ban was not adequately indicated and the charge should not stand.

Legal basis

Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2016 (SI 2016/362), Sch 7 Pt 4 items 3-4 (diagrams 1020.1 and 1019); Traffic Signs Manual Ch 3 (2019) paras 13.4.9-13.4.12; Local Authorities' Traffic Orders (Procedure) (England and Wales) Regulations 1996 (SI 1996/2489) reg 18; Civil Enforcement of Road Traffic Contraventions (Representations and Appeals) (England) Regulations 2022 (SI 2022/576) reg 5(4)(a), (f) WALES: this row is served in Wales as well as England, and the instruments cited above are the England regulations. The Welsh equivalents are the Civil Enforcement of Road Traffic Contraventions (Representations and Appeals) (Wales) Regulations 2013 (SI 2013/359) for the grounds of representation and the appeal machinery, and the Civil Enforcement of Road Traffic Contraventions (General Provisions) (Wales) Regulations 2013 (SI 2013/362) for the general provisions. A Welsh notice should be answered on the Welsh instrument; the argument is the same, the citation is not.

How to identify this in your case

Is your PCN code 02 (a street with waiting AND loading restrictions)? Look at the kerb stones exactly where you stopped: are there short yellow marks painted across the kerb edge, and is there a white 'No loading' plate on a nearby post? Photograph the kerb face and the full run of the street. Faded, missing or interrupted kerb marks at your spot all support this ground — the Traffic Signs Manual itself notes these marks need frequent maintenance and that omitting them causes enforcement difficulty.

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Sample wording to adapt and send yourself — it may not fit your notice or the stage you are at.

I make representations against this PCN for contravention 02 on the ground that the alleged contravention did not occur and/or there has been a procedural impropriety. A prohibition of loading falls to be indicated by kerb markings to diagram 1019 or 1020.1 together with appropriate upright signs (Traffic Signs Manual Ch 3, paras 13.4.9-13.4.12). At the location where the vehicle stopped there were no such kerb markings or 'No loading' plates capable of indicating any loading ban, and the council therefore failed in its duty under regulation 18 of SI 1996/2489 to give adequate information as to the effect of its order. I put the council to strict proof, by contemporaneous photographs of the kerb at the vehicle's position, that the loading prohibition was adequately indicated.

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Yellow Line Loading Ban Not Marked on the Kerb

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