of PCN appeals against Torridge District Council are won

Name: Penalty charge appeal outcomes for Torridge District Council, 2013/14 to 2024/25
Creator: Traffic Penalty Tribunal

The Traffic Penalty Tribunal recorded 1,936 outcomes for appeals against Torridge District Council from 2013/14 to 2024/25, and 516 of them ended with the driver paying nothing. That is 27.7 points below the 54.4% tribunal average.

1,936appeals with an outcome

516won — nothing to pay

959refused

What the appeals were about

Torridge District Council enforces more than one kind of penalty, and drivers do not fare the same on each.

Penalty type	Outcomes	Not contested	Won
Clean air zone	1,892	283	26.2%
Parking	44	12	47.7%

295 of those 516 wins were uncontested. In 57.2% of the appeals Torridge District Council lost, it put up no defence at the tribunal at all. Roughly a third to a half of its losses never got argued, so a properly written appeal has a real chance of being conceded before anyone reads the evidence. Those tickets were not close calls. The authority had already given up on them, and the appeal was the only thing standing between the driver and a cancelled charge.

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Year by year

Year	Allowed	Not contested	Refused	Won
2013/14	5	9	7	67%
2014/15	0	2	2	50%
2015/16	0	0	3	0%
2016/17	0	1	6	14%
2017/18	1	0	1	50%
2021/22	2	0	0	100%
2022/23	1	0	1	50%
2023/24	212	283	936	26%
2024/25	0	0	3	0%
All years	221	295	959	26.7%

Busiest year: 2023/24, with 1,892 appeals decided. A further 461 appeals were closed by consent order across the period, which the tribunal counts separately because it can mean the driver agreeing to pay the original charge.

What this does and does not tell you

These are appeals that reached an independent adjudicator, which is the last stage. They leave out every ticket cancelled earlier, when you first challenge it or make formal representations, and that is where most successful challenges actually end. So your real chance of getting a ticket cancelled somewhere in the process is higher than 26.7%, not lower. Among the 204 authorities in England outside London and in Wales with enough appeals to compare, Torridge District Council ranks 202nd for how often drivers win.

Two details worth knowing before you read too much into the number. The refused column includes appeals made after the deadline and appeals the driver withdrew, so it is not purely a record of arguments that lost on the evidence. And a small number of appeals each year finish with no outcome recorded against any of these categories, so the totals here are of appeals that reached a recorded outcome rather than of every appeal lodged.

Before you write

Find your contravention code. Every PCN carries a two digit code that says exactly what they claim you did, and what they have to prove. Look yours up.
Check the deadline. Discounts and rights both expire. Work out your dates.
Know how appeals work outside London. The Traffic Penalty Tribunal route, step by step.
Do not just ignore it. What actually happens if you do.

How similar authorities compare

Authority	Appeals won
Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council	34.3% of 166
Durham County Council	31.4% of 357
Portsmouth City Council	31.2% of 780
Torridge District Council (this page)	26.7% of 1,936
Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council	25.7% of 565
North Northamptonshire Council	24.6% of 142

Every authority we hold figures for, with sources →

Source: Traffic Penalty Tribunal, appeals data by authority, covering 2013/14 to 2024/25. The tribunal decides appeals for England outside London and for Wales, across parking, bus lane, moving traffic, clean air zone, river crossing and littering penalties. Every type Torridge District Council enforces is counted above. A tribunal outcome depends on the evidence in that particular case, so nothing here predicts yours.