This site is intended to make parking rules around the UK clearer and easier to understand, and provide a balanced outlook on parking restrictions and enforcement.

If you’ve had a parking ticket, and you’re not sure what to do next, look at who issued it and what type of parking ticket it is.

Next, look at what it’s for. If the wording seems a little unclear, so you look up a better explanation of most parking ticket codes, along with the main exemptions, so you can see if they apply to you. Before you send off that appeal (or better still, before you get the ticket in first place), make sure you haven’t fallen one of the common parking myths.

• lines and signs
  • Yellow lines (including “what’s the difference between a single and double yellow line?”)
  • yellow stripes/kerb markings
  • red lines
  • white bays
  • yellow bays
  • red bays
  • the no waiting and no stopping symbols
  • reading difficult signs
• myth-busting:
  • end caps and broken lines
  • I’m not parked (including but I’m sat in the car)
  • only two/five/ten minutes or half an hour
  • They didn’t stick it on the windscreen
  • There’s no line/sign
  • but I live here!
    
  • Sundays and Bank Holidays
  • my blue badge lets me park wherever I want
  • but I was loading
• Tickets and enforcement
  • types of parking ticket
  • what does this code mean?
  • history of parking enforcement
  • loading and unloading
    
  • Some of the many acronyms and abbreviations
• News
• Pay systems
  • pay on foot
  • pay and display
  • meters
  • pay by phone
  • pay on exit
  • pay and stay
    

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This site is for general information only; nothing on it should be considered legal advice. The site may not be error-free. This site is written based on English laws; most are very similar in the rest of the UK, but some differences may apply.