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Pay the charges (would be wholly or partly refunded if your reps are wholly or partly successful), collect the car and make sure you park it legally.

You will be making reps on 2 grounds - 1) against the PCN (if thare are grounds) and 2) against the removal (if disproportionate), so then post up all sides of all paperwork received at the pound (only redact tr name & address), any council photos,  and a GSV link to the location so we can see what grounds there may be to make reps.

Here are the PCN and invoice from the car pound. Another PCN was still in the windscreen soaking wet and still need to be paid.

It seems that I cannot upload photos.

OP, your car was towed because it was in contravention and according to the council fell within the scope of its policy for removing vehicles in these circumstances. As we understand it, the contravention was being parked without displaying a valid permit or displaying an invalid permit. We'll know when we see the PCNs.

As regards 'Another PCN was still in the windscreen soaking wet and still need to be paid.', IMO no. The authority may not recover further charges after the event, they should have recovered these while you were at the pound:

In the case of a vehicle found in an area that is a civil enforcement area for parking contraventions, the relevant charges are—

(a)any penalty charge payable in respect of the parking of the vehicle in the place from which it was removed,

(b)such unpaid earlier penalty charges relating to the vehicle as may be prescribed, and

(c)such sums in respect of the removal and storage of the vehicle—

(i)as the authority may require in accordance with Schedule 9 of the Traffic Management Act 2004

Which PCN was paid, the earlier or the later(in terms of their dates of contravention)?

@mrmustard, I would suggest that the Act states otherwise:

 
 101A Right of owner to recover vehicle or proceeds of sale

(1)If before a vehicle is disposed of by an authority under section 101 above it is claimed by a person who—

(a)satisfies the authority that he is its owner, and

(b)pays the relevant charges,

the authority shall permit him to remove the vehicle from their custody within such period as they may specify or, in the case of an authority other than a local authority, as may be prescribed.


(3)In the case of a vehicle found in an area that is a civil enforcement area for parking contraventions, the relevant charges are—

(a)any penalty charge payable in respect of the parking of the vehicle in the place from which it was removed,

(b)such unpaid earlier penalty charges relating to the vehicle as may be prescribed, and

(c)such sums in respect of the removal and storage of the vehicle—

(i)as the authority may require in accordance with Schedule 9 of the Traffic Management Act 2004, or

(ii)in the case of an authority other than a local authority, as may be prescribed.

(b)such unpaid earlier penalty charges relating to the vehicle as may be prescribed, and

Indeed, but a PCN surely only becomes unpaid when the period for its payment or for the submission of representations against it has expired. In addition, for a Reg 9 PCN, it is only when the period for payment/reps for a Notice to Owner has expired