Hi - please can you send messages via the forum rather than email as it will get very confusing otherwise. On the forum, you will have the benefit of others being able to chip in.
From what I can tell, you have (at least) 2 PCNs:
• AF30508050, date of contravention 30/01/2025, date of PCN 10/02/2025, date of Charge Certificate 11/03/2025 [Redbridge website says the status is “Final Reminder to Keeper” which suggests they’ve sent you a final communication to pay this, have you received anything in the post?]
• AF30601023, date of contravention 25/02/2025, date of PCN 03/03/2025, currently at Charge Certificate stage
Are you aware of this? Your posts to date suggest you think all correspondence from Redbridge relates to the 3 March 2025 PCN. Do you drive this route often - in which case could you have incurred other PCNs that you are not aware of?
Please provide the wording you used on your website appeal you referred to in your email to me, and the email you sent to Redbridge, together with the dates these were sent.
The process (for moving traffic offences such as yours) is as follows:
• You receive a PCN
• You have 28 days starting with the date of the PCN to pay the penalty (reduced by 50% if you pay within 14 days starting with the date of the PCN)
• Alternatively, you have 28 days starting with the date of service of the PCN (2 business days after the date of the PCN) to submit representations to Redbridge
• If you submit representations in time, Redbridge must consider these and either accept them (in which case the penalty is cancelled) or reject them
• If rejected, they send you a Notice of Rejection, which includes the code you need to take the case to London Tribunals for independent adjudication
• If you do not submit representations in time, they can send a Charge Certificate by which point it’s too late to submit representations and you must pay the penalty (which is increased by 50% at this stage).
• You are allowed to get the process reset back to PCN stage if you did not receive the original PCN, or submitted representations in time and did not receive a Notice of Rejection
In your case, for the second PCN it looks like Redbridge removed your ability to submit representations before the deadline, and sent out a Charge Certificate before this deadline too. The dates for the first PCN also suggest the Charge Certificate was issued a day too soon.
For the earlier PCN, it sounds like you are saying you’ve never received this, in which case the final bullet from the process I listed could apply from the point you receive the next official notice from Redbridge which is the Order for Recovery.
Please can you post copies of all other documentation received – to date we only have one PCN and one Charge Certificate in respect of two different offences (and not the Notice or Rejection).
EDIT, apologies I didn't see the 11 March Charge Certificate was included with the PCN, wording updated to reflect this.
