Hi all, I had a hire vehicle when my car got driven into given by the insurance company, gave it back, moved house from wembley to grenwich. i have an electric car normally and autopay setup for congestion. i paid the congestions manually for this hire car, apparently i missed 8 it seems (i drive into london every day for work), marston turned up regarding it and another thing, paid an amount for them to go away so i could deal with these otherwise it's about £4,500 for these 8. filled in the forms and sent to the tec, I asked their collegue and they said send in the completed forms, a cover letter, request that it is dealt with as 1 case to not waste the courts time with 8 for the same thing, same month, same car, same person. I had researched this and they confirmed this should happen. I did so, they said give it 4-6 weeks for it to work through the system then once this is looked at and approved i can pay one fee to have one court date to challenge all 8 so i can pay off the tickets (not the 4.5k with marston), I did.
They sent it back saying you didn't pay the fee so it's all refused. I spoke to them again, they said send in a completed form requesting one ticket to go to court, then call and pay the fee 4-6 weeks later but add a document with your request for all 8. today is the day I called to pay this one fee for this court date to hopefully fix everything. the person I spoke to said 'no matter what the court will never dealt with more than one pcn in a court hearing, I said surely it's an enourmous waste of the courts time to have a judge having his day filled with 1 person 8 times for the same thing? say basically gave me an answer which eluded to 'I've told you once, you're wasting my time if i have to repeat it again'.
I'm currently in the queue to pay the court for this one court date so that is done but can anyone help with how to move forward with this?
the TEC are telling me two different things
the internet says that consolodating tickets of the exact same thing on different dates is a standard thing in the right circumstances.
paying £2,900 to spend all day in court compared to £4,500 with marston (who currently are not chasing me) seems awful.
ideally I want to go to court, be told i can pay the original congestion penalties with tfl at the original price (i have a number of receipts for congestion charge i paid for it and so am not certain they are all valid pcn's for it but I just want it gone without bancrupting me)
As I'm now being told conflicting information from the TEC I'm needing a little help if anyone knows the best way to proceed I'd be really grateful for some help.
Thanks in advance,
Si
