Most councils have the power to enforce parking penalties under the Traffic Management Act 2004. These parking penalties are not treated as criminal offences. They are often known as a ‘parking penalty charge’ or a ‘penalty charge notice’ (PCN). Typically your council will have its own traffic wardens (called civil enforcement officers) who issue penalty charge notices, for example, for parking on double yellow lines, in a permit only zone, on zigzag lines or in parking meter zones. Contact us for advice if you been issued with a penalty for a private car park. There are also other types of traffic penalty such as the London congestion charge, penalties for vehicle emissions and penalties for bus lane offences. The procedure for these types of penalties is slightly different. Failure to pay for your fine will result in a warrant of control being issued and a bailiff enforcing it. For Companies like parking eye do not ignore they won’t just go away.