By not updating your PCN promptly on moving address, you have dropped yourself in a big hole from which few escape successfully. Sorry to have to say it, but experience over the years on this and a previous forum is that most people find it very difficult to justify lateness updating their V5C. There is a process for people who don't receive the PCN(s)
The process is to submit an Out-of-Time Statutory Declaration to the Traffic Enforcement Centre (TEC) declaring that you never received the PCN. The only problem with this is that whilst it's free to submit, apart from a small solicitor witness fee, (or free at your local county court). your SD is immediately passed by TEC to the enforcing council who can object to it, and usually do. Their objection will be that they sent all the statutory enforcement documents to the V5C address obtained from DVLA, and none were returned because of non-delivery. TEC then reject your SD. YOu can then request a review by a county court judge, which costs over £100 for a papers-based review, or over £300 for an interview with the judge. Neither sum is reimbursible.
Sorry not to be more positive, but that is the truth. My personal opinion is that the increasing use of CCTV to detect traffic contraventions has combined with the abolition of the car tax disc, which did at least have the benefit of people keeping their V5 up-to-date so they got the tax disc in the post.
Trying get my head round the amount, the following amounts usually make up the bailiff bill for a single PCN
- PCN, (assume £130)
- Charge Certificate (adds 50% = £65)
- Order for Recovery (adds £10 the TEC registration fee)
- Bailiff letter of enforcement (£75)
- Bailiff visit (£ 235)
The bailiff fees are statutory amounts.
