Council PCN appeal pages, council by council

A council penalty charge notice runs on statute, and every route to challenge one is free. The discount window, the formal representations, the independent adjudicator: none of them costs anything, and the only thing that reliably costs money is missing a date. Find your council.

A council penalty charge notice, and the four dates that follow it. Day 1: The penalty charge notice is served: fixed to the windscreen or handed to the driver. Day 14: Last day of the 50 percent discount, 13 days after the day of service. Day 28: The payment period ends, 27 days after the day of service. Notice to Owner: 28 days from its service to make formal representations to the council, free. +28 days: Notice of Rejection. — Every day-count here is the one the council deadline calculator on this site counts from, read from the 2022 Regulations and checked on 27 August 2026. A PCN sent by post after a camera gives 21 days for the discount instead of 14.

London

England, outside London

BirminghamPCN appeal: the dates and the free routes Brighton and HovePCN appeal: the dates and the free routes BristolPCN appeal: the dates and the free routes LeedsPCN appeal: the dates and the free routes LiverpoolPCN appeal: the dates and the free routes ManchesterPCN appeal: the dates and the free routes SheffieldPCN appeal: the dates and the free routes

A council PCN from Wales? None of the councils above is Welsh. A Welsh council PCN is challenged under the Civil Enforcement of Road Traffic Contraventions (Representations and Appeals) (Wales) Regulations 2013, not the English regulations named here, and the discount, representations and appeal clocks are the same lengths (SI 2013/362, Schedule 1; regulation 5; regulation 7). The council PCN page has the Welsh rules in full, with the one that differs.

How these 40 councils were chosen, and what is not measured

Measured: the London authorities above are the ones covered by the only published per authority PCN statistics for England we could reach, London Councils’s Annual Penalty Charge Notice Statistics 2024-25, read on 22/09/2026. We read the page that publishes the file, not the spreadsheet itself.

Inferred: no national table of PCNs issued per English council is published anywhere we could reach, so the councils outside London above are inferred, named as large English enforcement authorities, and their order is not a ranking. Nothing on this site claims one.

Also not on these pages: each council’s own pay link, challenge link and penalty bands. Those are quoted and dated only where somebody has read them at source, which is the five pages here, and the rest join them as they are read rather than being guessed at.

Where the dates on this page come from

The discount window, and the 21 days when the notice came by post after a camera: The Civil Enforcement of Road Traffic Contraventions (England) General Regulations 2022 (SI 2022/71), read at source 27/08/2026.
The 28 days to appeal to the adjudicator after a rejection: The Civil Enforcement of Road Traffic Contraventions (Representations and Appeals) (England) Regulations 2022 (SI 2022/576), read at source 27/08/2026.
Which councils this family covers: London Councils, Annual Penalty Charge Notice Statistics 2024-25, read at source 22/09/2026.

The council PCN discount calculator, free → · The council pages read at source → · A debt firm has written instead →

Written and checked by Axion Labs. Published Tue, 22 September 2026 · Last checked Tue, 22 September 2026. If a figure on this page is wrong, write to hello@getaxionlabs.com and we will fix it and say so here.