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Did the bailiff leave you a notice or letter of any description? If so please post it up. Instructions are in the READ THIS FIRST - **BEFORE POSTING YOUR CASE!** sticky post at the top of the forum. Just redact your name and address and leave everything else visible.

I moved in June 2023, and ultimately realised in October this year that i hadn’t changed my V5C 🤦🏻‍♂️ - therefore done so immediately.

Photo of letter attached guys.

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If this letter reached you at your current address, then a previous letter should also have been received.  This is the letter sent at the "Compliance" stage, when the bailiff fee is £75 plus the council debt of the amount at the Order for Recovery stage. The letter you have received is the one sent at the second stage of enforcement, the "taking control of goods" stage.  Yet you don't mention this letter at all ? So did your receive such a letter ?

Here are the relevant regulations :-

See Regulation 5 and Schedule 12

The compliance fee is £75, and the attendance fee £235

The only way to revert the process back to the PCN stage is to submit a Statutory Declaration or a Witness Statement. Which one depends under what legislation the PCN was issued. Because you are way out of time to submit either of these, you also have to submit separate form to request that the SD or WS form can be submitted Out-of-Time. Whether you've paid the bailiff or not, it has no relevance or input, to the WS or SD process. With your late update of your V5C, you'll need a very good story to explain things.

Do you still have the vehicle involved in the contravention? If so, this can be seized by them if on your property or highway? They could also seize a different vehicle on your property if they have a legitimate belief that it's your property.

There are only 2 means of halting action: to pay or to get the council to hold them off while other procedures are engaged*.

Have you contacted the council or the bailiffs?

*- several strands to these, but we need more details first pl.

Thanks for the VRM.
However you haven't answered the question: "Is the name and address on the letter correct? IE Is it your name and your current address? If not then how did you receive the letter?"

Do you rent the hackney cab or own it outright?

At each end of Harpenden Road there are "flying motorcycle" Pedestrian and Cycle Zone signs Mon-Fri 7:45-9:15 am and 2:30-3:30 pm except for permit SS7 holders. So no motor vehicles at all during those hours Mon-Fri, excepting permit holders. The permit holders are presumably all residents. A hackney cab has no exemption.

What do you mean by "visiting Redbridge Council"? I doubt if you'll get very far with a walk-in to the public office, if there is one at all.

The Police don't have anything to do with this. They won't be interested. Looks like the bailiff is trying to intimidate you into paying up.

Can anybody confirm that a bailiff can't impound a licensed hackney cab as it's a tool of trade, even if over £1350 in value?

To get this reset to the PCN stage you'll need to submit a Statutory Declaration to the effect that you did not receive the original PCN and an application to submit the SD Out of Time. The question then arises as to what you can put on the OOT that justifies the delay as Redbridge will almost certainly object. Please don't attempt to submit the OOT & SD until we've reviewed what you're going to say.

I'm sorry if this is a bit personal. Why didn't your wife forward on your post? Or did she send it back to Redbridge?

Yes, the name and address on the letter are both correct.

The letter was hand delivered to my address on Friday and my wife called me and sent me a picture of it immediately.

So am i right in thinking that i should pay the bailiff the £515 and then a Statuary Declaration? Will this possible help either going back to the original PCN charge or perhaps some kind of money back?

Apologies, i find this all very hard to understand.

I really appreciate the time and responses guys !!

The bailif told me that i should of received a letter before his visit to my house - which i didnt.

I still own the vehicle, i owned it at the time of the alleged offence, and the vehicle is at my home address when im not working in London.