Delphi

Thank you for posting this - it's been very helpful to read. I have just recently received a PCN from Southwark council because apparently I contravened code 33e when I was driving along Townley road approaching East Dulwich Grove by the junction of Calton avenue. I had no idea about about any changes to using this junction and that there have been cameras installed there and was surprised to learn that between certain times cars cannot now drive up to the junction where Alleyns and Jags schools are - I have been driving this way on occasions for many decades. I was taken aback to receive this PCN with a very large fine attached - ?130 (?65 if paid within 14 days. As you say, the signage is completely inadequate and easy to miss. I also think that the council should have written to all council tax paying residents (I live in East Dulwich) informing them, and at the very least to have a system in place where you are given a warning on the first occasion, so that you know about it. It seems to me that this is unscrupulous behaviour on the part of the council; it is a money making scheme through entrapment, by catching people on camera unawares that they are contravening anything. I don't agree with these changes that have been made and as a local resident and tax payer I was not consulted about them. The roads are there for all of us and I don't agree with the road closures and other traffic measures in and around Dulwich that Southwark council have introduced under the radar during the pandemic and lockdown periods. I will make an appeal against this PCN and would like to know if there is anything we can do collectively as residents to get these changes reversed.