@willdudeuk draft reps:
Dear London Borough of Waltham Forest,
This representation is for the personal attention of Lorraine Maynard: Please read these representations very carefully indeed, if you reject them with a templated rejection that does not address the issues I am quite properly raising at this stage then I may in due course have to apply for an order for costs against the council.
The substance of my representation is as follows: the statutory prohibition only applies where a vehicle is forced to stop by the presence of stationary vehicles, from the video it is obvious that this did not happen: at the time when the vehicle stopped, the vehicle ahead was moving. Indeed if you look at the video carefully you will see that while there is slow-moving traffic in the box and beyond the box, no vehicles ahead of my own are actually stationary at any point until after my vehicle starts moving again, therefore my vehicle was never forced to stop by the presence of stationary vehicles.
If the usual drivel rejection is received, in due course Lorraine Maynard will receive an email with my bank account details where I would like my costs to be paid, as recently happened in the case of Ali Hassan v London Borough of Waltham Forest (2240447665, 18 November 2024). Of course I hope you will choose not to waste public funds in this way and will simply take the opportunity to cancel the PCN at this stage.
Yours faithfully,
Ok this really is a sledgehammer approach, but frankly I don't have time to mess about with this nonsense and would much rather avoid having to go to the tribunal if I possibly can. You don't need to give them links or copies of the legislation, they're meant to know the legislation that they're enforcing.
Once the representations are submitted take a screenshot of the confirmation page, make sure the screenshot is date/timestamped.