A London council has been caught repainting a faded single yellow line just weeks after rejecting a driver's appeal against a parking ticket issued on the same stretch of road. David Cleghorn, 35, was fined after parking on North Tenter Street in Tower Hamlets, despite being told by three traffic wardens that the broken line would not be enforced.
Mr Cleghorn, an energy company manager, appealed the penalty notice in March 2016, arguing that the yellow line was 'completely broken' under his car. The council rejected his appeal, but a month later he filmed a council worker repainting the line. He then forwarded the CCTV footage to Tower Hamlets Council with a second formal appeal, which was eventually upheld and the fine dropped.
Mr Cleghorn said: 'I'd already been told by three traffic wardens that I could park there because there was no line. I tried to explain that to the traffic warden at the time but he just would not listen.' He added that he challenges every fine possible, stating: 'It is ultimately just for cash, it is nothing to do with making our lives easier.'
A Tower Hamlets Council spokesman said: 'The PCN was correctly issued because the front of Mr Cleghorn's vehicle, up to the wing mirrors, was over the yellow line. The officer who reviewed Mr Cleghorn's formal representations took into account that there was a break in the line and decided to give Mr Cleghorn the benefit of the doubt.'
