Contravention codes

Find the code on your Penalty Charge Notice. (2026)

Find out what your penalty charge contravention code means, the correct grounds for appeal, and how to collect evidence, prepare your appeal and handle it at the authority and tribunal stage.

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Specialist and Reserved Code Numbers

Codes 58 and 59 cover London Lorry Control permissions; codes 67 and 68 cover TfL HGV Safety Permits. Their guides are listed under moving traffic and explain the separate procedures.

Code 97: Speeding

A code-list entry does not itself establish an enforcement power. TfL's September 2023 panel report records that Wandsworth's civil-speed-enforcement pilot was suspended after DfT deemed it unlawful. A police speeding notice must not be treated as an ordinary council parking PCN.

TfL report, September 2023, paragraph 4.23 GOV.UK speeding penalties

Reserved numbers are not additional parking allegations: 13 (TfL Low Emission Zone); 17 (Road user charging); 39 (TfL Ultra Low Emission Zone); 72 (Builders' skips); 75 (Littering from motor vehicles); 76 (Waste receptacles); 77 (DVLA use). Use the actual scheme and document, not a parking appeal template for a reserved number.

London Councils PCN Codes v7.0, 31 May 2022 (currently linked file under a 2025 URL)

By Parking Mate UK

Find the code on your Penalty Charge Notice. (2026)

Code 01: Parked in a restricted street during prescribed hours

Code 02: Parked or loading / unloading in a restricted street where waiting and loading / unloading restrictions are in force

Code 04: Parked in a meter bay when penalty time is indicated

Code 05: Parked after the expiry of paid for time

Code 06: Parked without clearly displaying a valid pay & display ticket or voucher

Code 07: Parked with payment made to extend the stay beyond initial time

Code 08: Parked at an out-of-order meter during controlled hours

Code 09: Parked displaying multiple pay & display tickets where prohibited

Code 10: Parked without clearly displaying two valid pay and display tickets when required

Code 11: Parked without payment of the parking charge

Code 12: Parked in a residents' or shared use parking place or zone without a valid virtual permit or clearly displaying a valid physical permit or voucher or pay and display ticket issued for that place where required, or without payment of the parking charge

Code 14: Parked in an electric vehicles' charging place during restricted hours without charging

Code 16: Parked in a permit space or zone without a valid virtual permit or clearly displaying a valid physical permit where required

Code 18: Using a vehicle in a parking place in connection with the sale or offering or exposing for sale of goods when prohibited

Code 19: Parked in a residents' or shared use parking place or zone with an invalid virtual permit or displaying an invalid physical permit or voucher or pay and display ticket, or after the expiry of paid for time

Code 20: Parked in a part of a parking place marked by a yellow line where waiting is prohibited

Code 21: Parked wholly or partly in a suspended bay or space

Code 22: Re-parked in the same parking place or zone within one hour after leaving

Code 23: Parked in a parking place or area not designated for that class of vehicle

Code 24: Not parked correctly within the markings of the bay or space

Code 25: Parked in a loading place or bay during restricted hours without loading

Code 26: Parked in a special enforcement area more than 50 cm from the edge of the carriageway and not within a designated parking place

Code 27: Parked in a special enforcement area adjacent to a footway, cycle track or verge lowered to meet the level of the carriageway

Code 28: Parked in a special enforcement area on part of the carriageway raised to meet the level of a footway, cycle track or verge

Code 29: Failing to comply with a one-way restriction

Code 30: Parked for longer than permitted

Code 31: Entering and stopping in a box junction when prohibited

Code 32: Failing to proceed in the direction indicated by the arrow on a blue sign

Code 33: Using a route restricted to certain vehicles

Code 34: Being in a bus lane

Code 35: Parked in a disc parking place without clearly displaying a valid disc

Code 36: Being in a mandatory cycle lane

Code 37: Failing to give way to oncoming vehicles

Code 38: Failing to comply with a sign indicating that vehicular traffic must pass to the specified side of the sign

Code 40: Parked in a designated disabled person's parking place without displaying a valid disabled person's badge in the prescribed manner

Code 41: Stopped in a parking place designated for diplomatic vehicles

Code 42: Parked in a parking place designated for police vehicles

Code 43: Stopped on a cycle docking station parking place

Code 45: Stopped on a taxi rank

Code 46: Stopped where prohibited (on a red route or clearway)

Code 47: Stopped on a restricted bus stop or stand

Code 48: Stopped in a restricted area outside a school, a hospital or a fire, police or ambulance station when prohibited

Code 49: Parked wholly or partly on a cycle track or lane

Code 50: Performing a prohibited turn

Code 51: Failing to comply with a no entry restriction

Code 52: Failing to comply with a prohibition on certain types of vehicle

Code 53: Failing to comply with a restriction on vehicles entering a pedestrian zone

Code 54: Failing to comply with a restriction on vehicles entering and waiting in a pedestrian zone

Code 55: A commercial vehicle parked in a restricted street in contravention of the Overnight Waiting Ban

Code 56: Parked in contravention of a commercial vehicle waiting restriction

Code 57: Parked in contravention of a bus ban

Code 58: Using a vehicle on a restricted street during prescribed hours without a valid permit

Code 59: Using a vehicle on a restricted street during prescribed hours in breach of permit conditions

Code 61: A heavy commercial vehicle wholly or partly parked on a footway, verge or land between two carriageways

Code 62: Parked with one or more wheels on or over a footpath or any part of a road other than a carriageway

Code 63: Parked with engine running where prohibited

Code 64: Parked in contravention of a notice prohibiting leaving vehicles on a grass verge, garden, lawn or green maintained by a local authority

Code 65: Parked in contravention of a notice prohibiting leaving vehicles on land laid out as a public garden or used for the purpose of public recreation

Code 66: Parked on a verge, central reservation or footway comprised in an urban road

Code 67: Using a vehicle on a restricted street without a valid HGV Safety Permit

Code 68: Using a vehicle on a restricted street in breach of HGV Safety Permit conditions

Code 70: Parked in a loading place or bay during restricted hours without loading

Code 71: Parked in an electric vehicles' charging place during restricted hours without charging

Code 73: Parked without payment of the parking charge

Code 74: Using a vehicle in a parking place in connection with the sale or offering or exposing for sale of goods when prohibited

Code 78: Parked wholly or partly in a suspended bay or space

Code 80: Parked for longer than permitted

Code 81: Parked in a restricted area in an off-street car park or housing estate

Code 82: Parked after the expiry of paid for time

Code 83: Parked in a car park without clearly displaying a valid pay & display ticket or voucher or parking clock

Code 84: Parked with payment made to extend the stay beyond initial time

Code 85: Parked without a valid virtual permit or clearly displaying a valid physical permit where required

Code 86: Not parked correctly within the markings of a bay or space

Code 87: Parked in a designated disabled person's parking place without displaying a valid disabled person's badge in the prescribed manner

Code 89: Vehicle parked exceeds maximum weight or height or length permitted

Code 90: Re-parked in the same car park within one hour after leaving

Code 91: Parked in a car park or area not designated for that class of vehicle

Code 92: Parked causing an obstruction

Code 93: Parked in car park when closed