Copy of representation sent to Barnet:
Dear London Borough of Barnet,
As I have previously explained, there is no sign for the bay where I was parked and it follows that no contravention occurred. Your CEO has taken a photo of a sign in a different bay, but that sign might as well be anywhere. Each bay must have its own sign and signs placed elsewhere are irrelevant. I suggest that rather than carrying out a desktop review of this representation, you arrange for the signage to be physically investigated (i.e. someone needs to get out of the council office and go down to the location to have a look). If you do so you will find that the sign is indeed missing (see photo), and you need to arrange for the signage to be reinstated if you wish to enforce that bay. In the meantime you should cancel this PCN and suspend enforcement of that particular bay until the signage issue has been resolved. Furthermore, I hereby raise a formal complaint against the CEO, who has plainly taken a photo of a sign for a different bay. This is incompetent at best and dishonest at worst, so a the very least some retraining is in order. The CEO should simply report the missing sign and arrange for reinstatement, rather than take photos that paint a misleading picture of events. Of course you will appreciate that if you issue the usual templated fob-off rejection, I will pursue an order for costs against the council on the grounds that the notice of rejection is wholly unreasonable. I will pursue this course of action even if the council does not contest the appeal.
Yours faithfully, XXXXXX
