How legal was your parking ticket?

£23m of parking fines 'may have been unlawful'

Almost 350,000 parking fines - totalling an estimated £23m - may have been unlawfully issued to motorists in London, a BBC investigation has found.

In 2010 a ticket issued in a suspended parking bay was ruled unlawful because Camden Council did not have authorisation for its signage. Now the BBC has learned 16 councils still have no authorisation for these signs, while others went years without.

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[CYNthesys]

Re: How legal was your parking ticket?

This may be a dumb question but here goes-

Is authorisation for traffic signage basically the same as a traffic management order, or are they each separate matters/issues

[michael]

Re: How legal was your parking ticket?

The Traffic Signs Manual describes the size, layout, wording and permitted variants of every authorised sign.

The idea being that there is uniformity of signage across the country. If councils want to deviate from any prescibed sign for a particular situation they must obtain authorisation from the Secretary of State for that sign to be enforceable.

You can search for authorisations here:
http://www.dft.gov.uk/traffic-auths/

This is separate from Traffic Management Orders.