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General parking enforcement information
Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council is responsible for enforcing parking and waiting
restrictions on roads throughout the borough. This covers on-street parking (e.g. on yellow lines, and in residents parking bays), and off-street parking (e.g. pay and display car parks, goods loading areas, business permit bays).
The Basingstoke town centre area is a controlled parking zone. All single yellow line restrictions within this zone apply between 8am and 7pm, Monday to Saturday. Signs indicating the start and end of the controlled zone are located at all entry and exit points of the zone.
Civil Enforcement Officers (CEOs) patrol Basingstoke and Deane streets and car parks (including rural areas such as Overton, Whitchurch, Kingsclere and Tadley), to ensure that parking and waiting restrictions are being complied with.
A penalty charge notice (PCN) is issued by the council’s CEOs when it is believed a vehicle is parked in contravention of parking or waiting restrictions. A PCN requires payment of a penalty charge, but does not result in a criminal record or points on a driving licence.
What to do if you get a penalty charge notice
For details on how to pay, or how to appeal against a PCN click here.
The council is a member of the Parking and Traffic Regulations Outside London (PATROL) Adjudication Joint Committee. The Joint Committee publishes an Annual Statement of Accounts which is subject ot External Audit and the arrangements for 2010/11 can be found at http://www.patrol-uk.info/site/scripts/documents_info.php?documentID=34&pageID=69
Arbitration
If your appeal is rejected by the council a further appeal may be made to the Traffic Penalty Tribunal (an independent arbitration service), where an experienced lawyer will consider the case and decide whether the PCN is to be cancelled. There is no charge for appealing to the Adjudication Service. For more information on parking enforcement, please refer to the Which? Guide to Parking at the foot of this page.
Annual parking report
The Department for Transport guidance issued under the Traffic Management Act 2004 requires that enforcement authorities produce an annual report on their parking enforcement activities. The attached reports cover the years 01 April 2008 to 31 March 2009 and 1 April 2009 to 31 March 2010.
