Cengolio · Fines · PCN escalation
One parking ticket, seven prices.
A penalty charge notice does not have a price, it has a ladder: half in the discount window, half more after a charge certificate, then three bailiff stages on top. Every rung is a published figure; only the timing between the rungs is discretion.
The notice states the level; councils outside London choose band 1 or band 2, London boroughs band A or band B.
Penalty levels per SI 2022/71 Sch. 3 and London Councils (2025 levels); bailiff fees per SI 2026/366, in force 1 May 2026; TEC registration fee £10, CPFO 2008. Checked 17 July 2026.
This walks the published fee ladder; it does not predict what a council will do. Nothing obliges an authority to take every step, and the pace between the rungs is enforcement practice, not statute. The discount window is 14 days from service, 21 where the notice came by post from a camera, reg 2 SI 2022/71. Representations to the council and an appeal to the independent adjudicator are free and sit outside this ladder; a witness statement to the court, reg 23, is a declaration about service, not an appeal.
The bailiff figures are the scale for warrants issued on or after 1 May 2026; older warrants finish on the previous scale, £22 less at the end. The 7.5 per cent addition above £1,900 in SI 2026/366 never touches a single PCN, it begins where several warrants are enforced together. Whether any of this is worth contesting depends on service, signage and evidence, and none of it is arithmetic.
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