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What amount are the enforcement agents demanding..

..and by when?

Forget evidence and the council, deal with the NoE.

In fact, post both sides of the NoE.

Pl, pl forget about the contravention and trying to think of a defence for the moment, you are now involved in a different procedure.

You are yet another OP coming on this forum who has failed to keep the address on their V5C Registration Certificate for the vehicle up-to-date. We see this situation very often, annd it is very difficult to overcome it.

You say you moved house in July 2024, but didn't update your V5C until May 2025, 10 months later. It is your legal duty to keep your details up-to-date.  What has happened is you contravened a traffic sign on 8th January. The council will have recorded this using CCTV, and when the registration number is determined, will obtain the name and address of the vehicle keeper from DVLA and issue a PCN to that name and address. It would seem you did not set up any mail redirection, so all enforcement documents were sent to your old address. These are: -

- PCN (postal)
- Charge Certificate (adds 50% when no response received for PCN, <pay or appeal>
- Order for Recovery (adds £10, the TEC fee. TEC is the "court" but has no judges or courtrooms)

When no response is received for the OfR, the council then instruct bailiffs to find you. They are very diligent in this task because their livelihood depends on it. The first stage is what you have in front of you, a Notice of Enforcement. This adds £75 to the amount you owe the council. If this is ignored, they will visit the address they have found and add a further £235 on.  These sums are not made-up, they are statutory.

Our normal recommendation is that with thhe sum at the level it is, it is best for you to pay the bailiffs to avoid getting the £235 added on.  Why ? Because there is a legal process to get the matter reverted to the PCN stage called an Out-of-Time Statutory Declaration. However, the circumstances you have described in your narrative are, as they stand, very unlikely to get the matter reverted, because you didn't keep your V5C up-to-date. However, if you tell us more about why you were so tardy in updating the V5C, it could well strengthen your SD submission.

So over to you

Edit
I forgot to mention that bailiffs can only seize goods at the address on the warrant. However, they can also seize goods that are on the public highway. So your car is at risk of seizure.

thanks guys
as soon i saw the letter i knew i had to pay especially as it was my fault for not changing the address.
all i wanted to do was see the evidence before paying.

to be honest i didn't know i had to change the address on the v5c, thought changing my license was enough ..doh!

the only reason i changed the address was because my car was stolen in may and police told me that my vehicle isn't registered to the address i was telling them and told me to get that changed asap ..

also i didn't know this website existed until yesterday.

I called newlyns directly and they said they can defer the payment till 30th

my new address, thats how i found out i even had ticket

not paid yet, still talking to council to get the evidence 

I would advise you not to rely on anything Newlyn said verbally. Only if you have it in writing.

If you pay the Notice of Enforcement as is, then the bill is capped at £280. However if the bailiff visits then they can and will charge an additional enforcement fee of £235. So that's a total loss of £515 to your wallet. And they will clamp your car if they can find it.

Try and pay the £280. You can still file a Statutory Declaration and an Out of Time application to attempt to get the enforcement process reset which, if successful, would get the £280 (temporarily) refunded. Even then the PCN would be still live. It is unlikely you would succeed with your OOT as you don't seem to have any good reason for not updating the Registered Keeper details in a timely manner.

The probability is that £280 is the best you can do.

thanks guys, been an epic fail on my part.. and the driver of my car