Westminster City Council: PCNs and how to challenge them

What Westminster enforces

Parking

Enforces — by on-street officers; cameras only for bus stop clearways and school keep-clear markings

Bus lanes / gates

Not confirmed by our sources

Moving traffic

Enforces — fixed and mobile camera units, including school streets

Penalty level

Band A: £160 higher level, £110 lower level (from 7 April 2025)

Appeals

London Tribunals (free)

About Westminster PCNs

Westminster runs one of the busiest enforcement operations in the country, with officers on foot for parking and a network of fixed cameras for moving traffic. Its camera list covers dozens of box junctions in the West End and Paddington, banned turns, no entry points, and a growing number of school streets, which it enforces under code 53 (pedestrian zone).

The council's own FAQ says its 50% discount lasts 14 days from service, and that this applies to postal moving traffic PCNs as well as tickets left on the car. It also says the discount can be offered again after a rejected challenge, as long as a Notice to Owner (for a windscreen ticket) or a Charge Certificate (for a camera or postal PCN) has not yet been issued, and that it aims to answer representations within 10 working days.

Blue Badge holders should know that the national scheme's full concessions do not apply in Westminster: it is one of four central London areas exempted by law, so badge holders cannot park on yellow lines here. Photos and camera footage for each PCN can be viewed on the council's appeals website before you decide.

How to challenge a Westminster PCN

1. Check the deadline. A camera PCN sent by post gets a 50% discount if paid within 14 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 City of Westminster Parking Services, PO Box 351, Sheffield, S98 1TU. Quote the PCN number and the grounds that apply.
3. If rejected, appeal to London Tribunals within 28 days of the Notice of Rejection. The adjudicator is independent of Westminster.

London penalty levels from 7 April 2025: Band A £160/£110, Band B £140/£90; bus lane and moving traffic £160 (London Councils).

Known camera locations

• Amberley Road school streetSchool street · code 53
• Baker Street / York Street cameraMoving traffic restriction · code 52
• Bayswater Road / Brook Street box junctionBox junction · code 31
• Bickenhall Street / Baker Street no entryNo entry · code 51
• Bishops Bridge Road / Gloucester Terrace box junctionBox junction · code 31
• Bishops Bridge Road / Westbourne Terrace box junctionBox junction · code 31
• Brook Street / South Molton Street no entryNo entry · code 51
• Buckingham Palace Road / Elizabeth Street banned turnBanned turn · code 50
• Cambridge Square / Southwick Street cameraMoving traffic restriction · code 32
• Charing Cross Road / Cranbourn Street box junctionBox junction · code 31
• Chelsea Bridge Road / Ebury Bridge Road box junctionBox junction · code 31
• Chepstow Road / Chepstow Place box junctionBox junction · code 31
• Conduit Street / Saville Row cameraMoving traffic restriction · code 32
• Craven Terrace school streetSchool street · code 53
• Dean Street / Carlisle Street cameraPedestrian zone · code 53
• Devonshire Place Mews / Marylebone High Street banned turnBanned turn · code 50
• Droop Street school streetSchool street · code 53
• Eastbourne Terrace / Bishops Bridge Road box junctionBox junction · code 31
• Enford Street school streetSchool street · code 53
• Fermoy Road cameraMoving traffic restriction · code 52
• Fernhead Road / Saltram Crescent no entryNo entry · code 51
• George Street / Gloucester Place cameraMoving traffic restriction · code 32
• Glentworth Street / Siddons Lane no entryNo entry · code 51
• Green Street / Park Street box junctionBox junction · code 31
• Harrow Road / Elgin Avenue / Great Western Road box junctionBox junction · code 31
• Harrow Road / Sutherland Avenue box junctionBox junction · code 31
• Hyde Park Street / Bayswater Road box junctionBox junction · code 31
• John Islip Street / Ponsonby Place banned turnBanned turn · code 50
• John Islip Street / Ponsonby Terrace banned turnBanned turn · code 50
• Langham Place / Mortimer Street / Regent Street box junctionBox junction · code 31
• Lower Belgrave Street school streetSchool street · code 53
• Marlborough Hill school streetSchool street · code 53
• Marlborough Place / Loudoun Road no entryNo entry · code 51
• Mill Street / Maddox Street / New Bond Street cameraMoving traffic restriction · code 32
• Mortimer Street / Goodge Street / Newman Street box junctionBox junction · code 31
• Mortimer Street / Great Portland Street box junctionBox junction · code 31
• Motcomb Street / Kinnerton Street cameraPedestrian zone · code 53
• New Cavendish Street / Portland Place box junctionBox junction · code 31
• Northumberland Avenue / Whitehall Place no entryNo entry · code 51
• Park Street / North Row box junctionBox junction · code 31
• Piccadilly / Berkeley Street box junctionBox junction · code 31
• Piccadilly / Bolton Street box junctionBox junction · code 31
• Piccadilly / Brick Street box junctionBox junction · code 31
• Piccadilly / Dover Street / Arlington Street box junctionBox junction · code 31
• Piccadilly / Half Moon Street box junctionBox junction · code 31
• Porchester Road / Porchester Square box junctionBox junction · code 31
• Praed Street / Eastbourne Terrace box junctionBox junction · code 31
• Rampayne Street / Tachbrook Street no entryNo entry · code 51
• Rochester Row / Vincent Square cameraMoving traffic restriction · code 52
• Shaftesbury Avenue / Coventry Street / Regent Street box junctionBox junction · code 31
• Shaftesbury Avenue / Denman Street cameraMoving traffic restriction · code 32
• Shaftesbury Avenue / Gerrard Place banned turnBanned turn · code 50
• Shaftesbury Avenue / Great Windmill Street cameraMoving traffic restriction · code 32
• Shaftesbury Avenue / Greek Street box junctionBox junction · code 31
• Shirland Road / Ashmore Road no entryNo entry · code 51
• Shrewsbury Road school streetSchool street · code 53
• St Martin's Lane / St Martin's Place banned turnBanned turn · code 50
• Strutton Ground / Victoria Street box junctionBox junction · code 31
• Tachbrook Street / Churton Street cameraPedestrian zone · code 53
• The Strand, outside Charing Cross Station box junctionBox junction · code 31
• Upper Montagu Street / Marylebone Road cameraMoving traffic restriction · code 52
• Victoria Square / Beeston Place / The Goring no entryNo entry · code 51
• Victoria Street / Palace Street / Thirleby Road box junctionBox junction · code 31
• Westbourne Street / Bayswater Road box junctionBox junction · code 31
• Westbourne Terrace / Chilworth Street banned turnBanned turn · code 50
• Westbourne Terrace / Craven Road box junctionBox junction · code 31

Codes used at these cameras: 53 (failing to comply with a restriction on vehicles entering a pedestrian zone), 52 (failing to comply with a prohibition on certain types of vehicle), 31 (entering and stopping in a box junction when prohibited), 51 (failing to comply with a no entry restriction), 50 (performing a prohibited turn), 32 (failing to proceed in the direction shown by the arrow on a blue sign).

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