About the Parking and Traffic Appeals Service (PATAS)

The Parking and Traffic Appeals Service (PATAS) was established by The Road Traffic Act 1991 and provides the administrative support to the Parking Adjudicators and since 2003 the Road User Charging Adjudicators. The service continues to provide this support under the Traffic Management Act 2004.

The Parking Adjudicators consider appeals against Penalty Charge Notices issued by the London local authorities. For appeals against Penalty Charge Notices issued by authorities in England and Wales but outside London, click here.

The Service receives and processes appeals and schedules hearings.

PATAS also provides support for the Hearing Centre based at Angel Square - click here for location map.

To see what information you can access from PATAS and how to access it, click here.

PATAS aims to provide a fast, efficient and quality service, offering case management support to the panels of independent adjudicators.

Anyone who has received a Penalty Charge Notice can appeal to the Adjudicator, provided that the correct procedure has been followed.

Click here to find out if you can appeal to the Parking and Traffic Adjudicator or here to the Road User Charging Adjudicator.

Appeal statistics can be found in the regular PATAS Newsletters and in the Annual Reports

The Parking and Traffic Adjudicators publish lists of cases scheduled for personal hearings. These lists provide the names of the parties and the time the case is due to be heard. The list is updated weekly and can be found by clicking here.

Some of the information on this site is in PDF format. To view this information you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader which is available free of charge and can be downloaded from the Adobe web site.