Author Topic: 52JM - Failing to comply with a prohibition on certain types of vehicles (Church Rd Northolt)  (Read 1717 times)

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Contact them.

Just wrote to them again asking for an update (it has been maybe more than 3 months since I last wrote to them). Below is their automated response. Ticket on their website is sitting at £195 with status: CC sent.

"Thank you for your email.

**Please do not reply to this message as it is an automated response**

Response times

Informal challenges = 30 working days

Formal* representations = 30 working days

*We will consider any written challenge submitted against the issue of a Penalty Charge Notice (PCN) up until the issue of a Charge Ccertificate. However, correspondence is only considered to be ‘formal’ once a Notice to Owner, Enforcement Notice or postal Penalty Charge Notice has been served to the registered keeper of the vehicle.

We aim to respond to all representations within the time periods stated above.  Please avoid contacting us for an update about your case during this time, as this may cause further delay.  Please also allow extra time for your correspondence to reach us if you have sent it in by post.

 

If your correspondence is received within the discounted period stated on the PCN,  we will place the case on hold and honour the discounted amount regardless of how long it takes for a response to be issued.

Correspondence received after the issue of a Charge Certificate or Order for Recovery will be placed on to the case but there is currently no specific time period within which a response will be sent to you.  Equally, if correspondence is received after a case has been paid in full, it will be placed on to the record but there is no statutory response period.

If you wish to contest the issue of a penalty at either the informal or formal stages then please do not make payment.  Doing so will close the case and there is no form of appeal once the case is paid and closed.

 

 

Your details

Please ensure that you provide your PCN reference number, vehicle registration number, name and current address details when corresponding with us.  Without these details we may not be able to locate your records and the case may progress.

Formal representations

 

Responses to formal representations are sent to the DVLA named registered keeper only.  Once your representation has been received the case will be placed on hold and investigated.  If the PCN is not cancelled then a Notice of Rejection will be served to the registered keeper of the vehicle with an option to make a payment or appeal to the London Tribunal.

 

You can check the status of your PCN by accessing our website:

 

https://www.ealing.gov.uk/info/201180/tickets_and_fines/2029/view_a_penalty_charge_notice

 

Please do not reply to this message -  it is an automated response. 

 

Many thanks

 

Parking Services

London borough of Ealing"


Any help greatly appreciated.

I have still not heard back from them nor have I received any further correspondence. Alleged incident occurred 8 months ago and my last email to them was around 4 months ago. I just checked the evidence page to see the current cost and it is still showing £195. I also noticed though that it seems the evidence isn't clickable (perhaps because it was so far back or because the website is damaged?)

With so much time having passed can they still enforce the PCN? SHould I contact them or TEC again?

Surely they can't just sit on stuff like this for months on end. Most people are likely to just forget about it allowing them to escalate and escalate (where letters are not sent or received)

Try phoning. I would also now raise an official complaint with the council, on the basis of "abuse of process".

With so much time having passed can they still enforce the PCN? SHould I contact them or TEC again?
@DontStandForNonsense I would call TEC once every ten days until the debt is registered.

The way way to speed things along would be to pursue a formal complaint, if you want to go down that route let me know and I will draft some wording for you.
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