Liverpool City Council: PCNs and how to challenge them

What Liverpool enforces

Parking

Enforces

Bus lanes / gates

Enforces — bus lanes and bus gates, camera enforced

Moving traffic

Enforces — ANPR cameras: banned turns, no entry, yellow boxes, school streets

Penalty level

Band 2: £70 higher level, £50 lower level (£35/£25 within 14 days). Bus lane and moving traffic PCNs £70, or £35 within 21 days

Appeals

Traffic Penalty Tribunal (free)

About Liverpool PCNs

Liverpool charges £70 or £50 for parking PCNs, halved to £35 or £25 if paid within 14 days. Bus lane, bus gate and moving traffic PCNs are £70, reduced to £35 if paid within 21 days. The council also notes that the police can fine for the same kind of offence, but you will not be fined by both for the same event.

For a parking ticket, an informal challenge must be made within 28 days, and if you challenged within 14 days and are rejected you can still pay the discounted rate. After that, wait for the Notice to Owner and make formal representations within 28 days of receiving it. For a bus lane PCN, Liverpool lists the accepted reasons, which follow the statutory grounds (wrong amount, contravention did not occur, police proceedings, not the owner, hire firm, vehicle trader, hire without signed liability, taken without consent) plus compelling reasons, and warns that the 21-day discount may be lost if the challenge fails.

Liverpool says that for six months after each moving traffic camera is activated, first-time offenders are sent a warning letter. Its camera locations include Lime Street, Ranelagh Street, Copperas Hill, the Lime Street bus link, four yellow box junctions and twelve school streets. Several of its bus lanes and gates allow licensed private hire cars as well as taxis and cycles, and Strand Street northbound only applies from 12pm to 6pm, Monday to Saturday.

How to challenge a Liverpool PCN

1. Check the deadline. A camera PCN sent by post gets a 50% discount if paid within 21 days; representations are normally due within 28 days of the notice being served.
2. Make representations to the council using its online challenge form or by post to Liverpool City Council, Parking Services, Cunard Building, Water Street, Liverpool L3 1AH. Quote the PCN number and the grounds that apply.
3. If rejected, appeal to Traffic Penalty Tribunal within 28 days of the Notice of Rejection. The adjudicator is independent of Liverpool.

Known camera locations

• Arlington Avenue school street (Greenbank Primary School)School street · code 52
• Barclay Street school street (St Cleopas Primary School)School street · code 52
• Brockenhurst Road school street (Rice Lane Primary School)School street · code 52
• Church Road school street (St Cuthbert's Primary School)School street · code 52
• Copperas Hill / Ranelagh Place compulsory directionMoving traffic restriction · code 32 · At any time
• George's Dock Gates / St Nicholas Place box junctionBox junction · code 31 · At any time
• Irvine Street / Mount Vernon Road bus gateBus gate · code 33 · 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
• Lime Street bus link no entry (Skelhorne Street to St George's Place)No entry · code 51 · At any time
• Lime Street from London Road motor vehicle banMoving traffic restriction · code 52 · At any time
• Meadway school street (Christ the King School)School street · code 52
• Montreal Road school street (St Gregory's Primary School)School street · code 52
• Neilson Road school street (St Michael in the Hamlet Primary School)School street · code 52
• New Quay / Chapel Street box junctionBox junction · code 31 · At any time
• Oakfield school street (All Saints Primary School)School street · code 52
• Overbury Street school street (St Anne's Primary School)School street · code 52
• Ranelagh Street / Great Charlotte Street bus gate westboundBus gate · code 33 · 7am to midnight, 7 days a week
• Ranelagh Street at Brownlow Hill banned turn (Ranelagh Place)Banned turn · code 50 · At any time
• Rudston Road school street (Rudston Primary School)School street · code 52
• St Anne Street outside the Fire Station box junctionBox junction · code 31 · At any time
• Strand Street bus lane (northbound, right turn into James Street)Bus lane · code 34 · 12pm to 6pm, Monday to Saturday
• Strand Street bus lane (southbound, James Street to L1 Bus Station)Bus lane · code 34 · 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
• Toxteth Street and Upper Essex Street school street (Holy Family Primary School)School street · code 52
• Watergate Lane school street (Much Woolton Primary School)School street · code 52
• Whitechapel / Crosshall Street box junctionBox junction · code 31 · At any time

Codes used at these cameras: 52 (failing to comply with a prohibition on certain types of vehicle), 32 (failing to proceed in the direction shown by the arrow on a blue sign), 31 (entering and stopping in a box junction when prohibited), 33 (using a route restricted to certain vehicles), 51 (failing to comply with a no entry restriction), 50 (performing a prohibited turn), 34 (being in a bus lane).

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