OK, so the PCN date is 22nd Sept 2025. The last V5C update is 8th October 2025. Can you remember how you reported the V5C update; was it online or did you send off the relevant V5C section by post ?
I think the two dates are sufficiently close together to support an Out-of-Time Witness Statement that you updated your V5C promptly on moving house. It is a postal PCN so the PCN date will be some days after the contravention date.
Advice is to pay the bailiff, because you are only at the compliance fee stage, (£75). If they visit your address they will add on £235. Both these amounts are statutory, so you cannot object to them. Paying the bailiff has no effect on whether your OOT WS will be accepted at TEC.
The £115 is the council debt, made up of: -
- the original PCN amount, (£70)
- then 50% added for a Charge Certificate, (£35)
- then £10 for registration of the debt at the TEC.
You need two forms, (1) Form TE7 to request your WS be accepted OOT, and (2) Form TE9 which is the Witness Statement in which you say why you are submitting it. Both of these can be downloaded from the TEC website. Ignore their incorrect text that says these are just for DART Charge etc. They are for use with all contraventions under the Traffic Management Act 2004 as well
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/traffic-enforcement-centre-formsAs you are very new to UK motoring and bailiff law, I suggest you contact: -
www.bailiffadviceonline.co.ukto make sure you fill the forms in correctly. If you don't, the Traffic Enforcement Centre will just reject them.
Even if they are accepted, this does not get the original PCN cancelled. ALl your declaration gets you to is the original PCN stage, and you can then appeal it or pay it.
