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of PCN appeals against Warwickshire County Council are won
The Traffic Penalty Tribunal recorded 701 outcomes for appeals against Warwickshire County Council from 2014/15 to 2024/25, and 467 of them ended with the driver paying nothing. That is 12.2 points better than the 54.4% tribunal average.
Over the same period Warwickshire County Council told the tribunal it issued 420,517 penalty charge notices. Only 701 of them ever reached an adjudicator, roughly one in 600. Almost everyone pays, which is worth knowing before you assume a ticket must be fair because so few people fight it.
339 of those 467 wins were uncontested. In 72.6% of the appeals Warwickshire County Council lost, it put up no defence at the tribunal at all. That is the bulk of its losses, which tells you something plain: on most of the tickets that reach an adjudicator, the council would rather drop the case than argue it. 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.
Is it getting easier or harder?
In 2014/15 to 2016/17, drivers won 66.1% of appeals against Warwickshire County Council, from 180 outcomes. In 2022/23 to 2024/25 it was 66.1%, from 224. The rate has held broadly steady across the decade.
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| Year | Allowed | Not contested | Refused | Won |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014/15 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 85% |
| 2015/16 | 27 | 32 | 30 | 66% |
| 2016/17 | 15 | 34 | 29 | 63% |
| 2017/18 | 11 | 29 | 22 | 65% |
| 2018/19 | 11 | 22 | 15 | 69% |
| 2019/20 | 12 | 28 | 18 | 69% |
| 2020/21 | 15 | 29 | 22 | 67% |
| 2021/22 | 12 | 31 | 20 | 68% |
| 2022/23 | 8 | 52 | 29 | 67% |
| 2023/24 | 4 | 36 | 23 | 63% |
| 2024/25 | 5 | 43 | 23 | 68% |
| All years | 128 | 339 | 233 | 66.6% |
Busiest year: 2015/16, with 89 appeals decided. A further 1 appeal was 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 66.6%, not lower. Among the 203 authorities in England outside London and in Wales with enough appeals to compare, Warwickshire County Council ranks 25th 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 |
|---|---|
| Southend-on-Sea Borough Council | 67.1% of 1,283 |
| Chesterfield Borough Council | 67% of 106 |
| Norwich City Council | 66.8% of 781 |
| Warwickshire County Council (this page) | 66.6% of 701 |
| Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council | 66% of 1,266 |
| Taunton Deane Borough Council | 65.8% of 111 |
| Great Yarmouth Borough Council | 65.6% of 128 |
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. Only parking penalties appear in its record. A tribunal outcome depends on the evidence in that particular case, so nothing here predicts yours.