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Who are 'Onesource (RDL)'?

Do you know which authority issued a PCN?

It's a bus lane in Havering.

Can you recall what address this car was registered to at the time as you didn't receive four letters at least.

OP, you need to give us the facts pl:

This was for driving in a bus lane in September 2023.
I usually receive PCNs at my current address where I have lived for 5 years.

These statements could only be intended to inform us that the vehicle's RK was you and that as your vehicles have for the past 5 years i.e. since before this event, always been registered to 'this address' then it follows that the authority have wrongly addressed at least 4 notices.

And then this bombshell:
It could be possible that it was registered to my old address which I can remember.

How could it, the event only occurred 2 years ago.

OP, over to you for the full story.

Please confirm that it is your name and current address on the Notice of Enforcement from Rundles?
When did the Notice arrive with you?

As I understand it, oneSource is a privately owned limited company wholly owned by the London Boroughs of Newham and Havering. The company provides a number of services into the Councils, including debt recovery. I further understand that they employ their own enforcement agents who are presumably certificated. Or maybe they don't anymore.

I would have expected that the Notice of Enforcement would have been issued by oneSource. Instead it looks like oneSource have sub-contracted the enforcement to Rundles. I have my doubts as to how that can be legal.

The warrant is a Local Authority Warrant of Control. Authorisation for a warrant can only be requested from the TEC by the Enforcement Authority, in this case LB Havering. The TEC authorises the warrant and the EA can then issue the warrant to the bailiffs/enforcement agents to enforce. That should mean oneSource. So any Notice of Enforcement to you should have come from oneSource. The underlying debt cannot be owing to oneSource as stated on the NoE, only the statutory enforcement fees. The underlying debt is owing to LB Havering and the NoE should make that clear. However since the enforcement fees, currently £75, are owing to Rundles then nothing can be owed to oneSource. The NoE seems to be seriously defective.

I suggest that you contact the Traffic Enforcement Centre helpdesk at Northampton County Court first thing on Monday.
Confirm that the address on the warrant issued 03/09/2024 was your old address?
And whether or not the warrant has been re-issued (re-sealed) with you correct and current address?
And when?

Traffic Enforcement Centre 0300 123 1059
Opening Times
Telephone Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm#

I further suggest that you seek advice from Bailiff Advice Online as to whether the Notice of Enforcement from Rundles is enforceable. As well as the possibility of an Out of Time Statutory Declaration.

You have a few days to investigate as the deadline is 6.00am on the 18th August. So if you need to pay the NoE make sure you don't miss the deadline.


   

Thank you everyone for your help and advice. I have gone ahead and paid it.