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@seanjean123  -  how did you receive today's letter?  Was it forwarded from your old address or did it use your current address?  Had you informed the council of a change of address?

When you submitted your online challenge, did you get any acknowledgement or take a screenshot of your challenge?

Hi all,

I responded on the website to the charge and challeneged it. I did not receive anything back until today. I received a letter from the post saying i should pay GBP 70 as i did not pay the GBP35. I did not even receive anything about my challenge if it was successful or not. Please how should i proceed

OP, it's a simple NTO.

But what's not right on first viewing is: It has my current address..

On the face of it this is improper therefore we need to make matters clear.

The authority are required by law to issue the NTO to the 'owner' - deemed for these purposes to be the registered keeper on the date of the contravention and addressed to the keeper at the address held by DVLA at the date of the contravention.*

So, on 7 Nov:
1. Who was the registered keeper;
2. At what address(using an alphabetic descriptor i.e. A);
3. The NTO is addressed to address A or a different address?

*- there is one exception to this which is if the registered keeper has notified the authority formally that all correspondence should be sent to a specified address other than that held by DVLA at the date of the contravention.

I cannot see that this applies in the case of your draft informal reps.

Quote from: Incandescent on December 28, 2024, 05:40:04 pm

Quote from: seanjean123 on December 28, 2024, 12:12:54 pm

Hi all,

I responded on the website to the charge and challeneged it. I did not receive anything back until today. I received a letter from the post saying i should pay GBP 70 as i did not pay the GBP35. I did not even receive anything about my challenge if it was successful or not. Please how should i proceed

Please post what you have received first. If it is a Notice to Owner, you must respond to it or lose any further appeal options.

I attached the picture. It is a Notice to Owner. I am just surprised my previous challenge was not acknowledged

OP, believe it or not the authority are not required by law to respond to 'representations before a NTO is served' in writing, merely to consider.

But most do.

Don't beat yourself up about this. We don't need to go into detail at this stage.

As you've given your account, something is seriously amiss within the authority and you have a 99.9999% winning hand. They MUST address the NTO to address A. Your current address is neither here nor there.