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This time there is a time on the PCN.

But if you didn't even move the car there is no reason for a postal PCN. I can't see any way you won't get this cancelled.

I wouldn't worry about asking for anything - just say the car remained in place, you spoke to the CEO and a PCN could have been served on the car or to you, so the postal PCN is a procedural impropriety and must be cancelled. 

Surely the PCN acts as the NTO, hence one bite at the cherry before adjudication.


If these facts fit...I would suggest..


The council alleges that my car was in contravention at 13.10 and served a PCN by post because it claims that:

A contravention had occurred, and

The CEO......a civil enforcement officer had begun to prepare a penalty charge notice for service but the vehicle was driven away from the place in which it was stationary before the civil enforcement officer had finished preparing the penalty charge notice or ..


In support, the council has posted photos taken by the CEO, one of which shows my car and me (together with the CEO) in situ at 13.15 therefore fundamentally undermining the second limb of its assertion that the 'vehicle was driven away [at or immediately after 13.10] or that the CEO was 'unable to serve [the PCN]'.

It therefore follows that based upon the council's evidence alone there was no legal power to serve the PCN which must therefore be cancelled.