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Bailiff- Notice of Enforcement Newlyn, R B Greenwich
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Hello,

I received a Notice of Enforcement from Newlyn yesterday (dated 2nd September) informing me of an outstanding debt totalling £280.

It references a Warrant of Control dated 30/07/2025 for non payment of a penalty charge.

The contravention date is the 14/10/2022.

This Notice of Enforcement is my first time hearing of the PCN.

I moved home in April 2023 to my current address, but I always update my logbook and insurance to the correct address.

I did change my licence plate shortly after moving, but again this was all logged with the DVLA and my insurer.

To add, but not entirely relevant, but i no longer own the vehicle as this was returned to Blackhorse in June 25.

Is there anything that can be done here to fight the charges? I have no issues with paying the original PCN amount because I have checked online and the offence did occur. However, it should not have taken them 3 years to find me.

Any advice is welcome.

Thanks


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Re: Bailiff- Notice of Enforcement Newlyn, R B Greenwich
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Their letter means you are at the "Enforcement Stage". After this, if you do nothing, the bailiffs will visit your property and charge another fee of £235. Both their fees are statutory, and cannot be varied.

So with no visit fee, our recommendation is normally to pay the amount demanded. You can then, and at the same time, prepare and submit an Out-of-Time Statutory Declaration that you didn't receive the PCN. The problem with this is that OOT submissions can be objected to, by the council, who invariably do so, on the basis that all statutory enforcement documents were sent to the address as provided by DVLA. So you need a good reason to refute this. Your house move of 2023 is much later that the alleged contravention date, which has to be served within 28 days. So was the address on your V5 on or around this time up-to-date. I ask, because the most common reason for non-receipt of PCNs and subsequent documents is the address on the V5 is out-of-date.

You could ask the council what address they used to serve the PCN and following documents. I suspect this is the key to your problem. Sometimes a minor error in the address is overcome because the local postie knows the address and can mitigate small errors.

Re: Bailiff- Notice of Enforcement Newlyn, R B Greenwich
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Thanks for the reply. I've emailed the Parking team at the council to find out what address they sent the PCN to.

My V5C would have been up to date at the time. It really is annoying and it would have been paid if received.