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Double check your parking ticket before paying

We have had some reports of fake parking tickets (PCNs) left on vehicles in Islington and neighbouring boroughs.

If you get a PCN, please check:

  • it has the Islington Council logo, crest and 'for a more equal future' in the top-right on the front
  • the back has instructions on how to pay including the web address islington.gov.uk/pcnpay - if you use this, you will see a green band at the top with our logo
  • the back also tells you how to challenge a PCN
  • it has a detachable slip that says "do not pay the civil enforcement officer"

Our PCNs do not have a QR code that you scan with your phone camera to pay. Do not scan any QR code on a PCN.

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Traffic Management Orders

View Traffic Management Orders which enforce Islington's on-street restrictions and find out how they are made.

Traffic Management Orders (TMOs) are legal documents that regulate various traffic and parking changes. These include but not limited to waiting and loading restrictions, speed limits, and road closures.

View parking restrictions on an interactive map

You can view Islington’s parking, waiting, loading and stopping restrictions on the interactive map. Additionally, the map schedule from the traffic management order which makes a restriction legally enforceable, as well as its made notice, are available via a hyperlink that appears by clicking on a restriction.

View the parking map

Charged-for parking place orders

These orders cover on-street parking places which require a payment, this includes pay by phone bays, shared use bays and permit-holder bays.

Charged PPs as amended.

Free parking places, loading places and waiting, loading and stopping restrictions orders

View Islington’s map-based TMOs for free parking places, loading places and waiting, loading and stopping restrictions.

Free PP WLR as amended.

Moving restrictions orders

Islington Council’s moving traffic restrictions are covered by one traffic order. These restrictions include banned or compulsory turns, one-way streets, no entry points, restrictions on vehicle access, amongst others. As new traffic schemes come into force, our moving restrictions traffic order is amended to include any changes.

View Islington's moving restrictions traffic order.

How we consult on and make TMOs

We follow the mandatory consultation process required by Part II of the Local Authorities' Traffic Orders (Procedure) (England and Wales) Regulations 1996 (LATOR). This includes:

  • advertising schemes in the London Gazette and a local newspaper (the Islington Tribune)
  • submitting draft documents to certain organisations required by the LATOR for consultation, known as statutory consultees, which includes but is not limited to emergency services, Transport for London, Royal Mail and the Road Haulage Association
  • for temporary TMOs (and for permanent or experimental TMOs at our discretion), posting notices on the street where changes are being proposed

Contact us

Contact us for more information:

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