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Live cases legal advice => Civil penalty charge notices (Councils, TFL and so on) => Topic started by: Hashim on October 12, 2025, 03:43:12 pm

Title: Re: Redbridge PCN
Post by: Incandescent on October 31, 2025, 11:58:02 pm
Received a rejection notice today.

https://ibb.co/Lzd5kVKH

Whats next please..

Thanks
It's the usual Fob-Off letter we see so often that totally ignores anything you have said. However, it is now up to you whether to fight the matter or not.  ALthough they say if they serve a Notice to Owner, it will be for the full £160, it is highly likely they will re-offer the discount if you submit a formal representation.

Appeals have been won at London Tribunals on the basis that with no work undertaken the suspension was an abuse of process, so the PCN is void. If you decide to appeal to the adjudicators,  this means you'd definitely have to forego the discount if you take them to London Tribunals. If you win, you pay nothing, and if you lose, the full penalty, but no other charges or costs. It all hinges on your attitude to risk. Maybe the words of the Earl of Montrose will help: -

He either fears his fate too much
Or his deserts are small
Who fears to put it to the touch
To win, or lose it all!
Title: Re: Redbridge PCN
Post by: Hashim on October 31, 2025, 10:55:35 pm
Received a rejection notice today.

https://ibb.co/Lzd5kVKH

Whats next please..

Thanks
Title: Re: Redbridge PCN
Post by: Incandescent on October 16, 2025, 01:45:07 pm
Shoukd I include the pictures that show the markings.
If you want to, yes. They indicate that work was intended,  but not actually carried out.
Title: Re: Redbridge PCN
Post by: Hashim on October 16, 2025, 11:05:53 am
Shoukd I include the pictures that show the markings.
Title: Re: Redbridge PCN
Post by: Incandescent on October 16, 2025, 11:01:47 am
I suggest you start preparing your representations today, and assuming no work is done tomorrow, Friday, submit them. Point out that no work has been done whatever, and the reason stated on the sign was "emergency works", which you consider mendacious as whatever the work to be done was, it was clearly not an emergency. So as the purpose of the suspension did not take place, no offence has been committed. And you therefore request that the PCN be cancelled.
Title: Re: Redbridge PCN
Post by: Hashim on October 16, 2025, 05:47:29 am
So drove past last night and no works had taken place and the notice on the lamppost has disappeared.
There are still some yellow markings on the floor.

https://ibb.co/JjytHR8n
https://ibb.co/LzKZG5HX
https://ibb.co/Vp0nYL0F
https://ibb.co/LXXxCCdT
https://ibb.co/Xxds4dR7
https://ibb.co/0V99k6nG

What should I do please...

Thanks

Hashim
Title: Re: Redbridge PCN
Post by: Hashim on October 13, 2025, 06:40:40 pm
Thanks for that...


Let's see.

Hashim
Title: Re: Redbridge PCN
Post by: Incandescent on October 13, 2025, 06:31:02 pm
You will only have a case at the end of the suspension period, if no works are undertaken. Sorry, but that's the way it is, I'm afraid.
Title: Re: Redbridge PCN
Post by: Hashim on October 13, 2025, 05:58:07 pm
Just drove past today and no "Emergency works" has started even today..

Hashim

Title: Re: Redbridge PCN
Post by: Hashim on October 12, 2025, 08:37:59 pm
So do we have a case...
Title: Re: Redbridge PCN
Post by: Incandescent on October 12, 2025, 08:27:30 pm
Suspension for "emergency gas works" yet no work commenced since the suspension started over two days ago. Some emergency !!
Title: Re: Redbridge PCN
Post by: Hashim on October 12, 2025, 07:32:50 pm
The small print is on the second attachment.

'6 bays outside 35 to 45 junction of York rd/York Mews'.

Yes, I should have read the notice properly but being a Sunday and no work had commenced i thought it was OK. Oh boy how I was wrong...

Thanks
Hashim
Title: Re: Redbridge PCN
Post by: stamfordman on October 12, 2025, 07:06:45 pm
There look to be suspension signs ahead and behind your car - did you not check parking signs?

I can't read the small print on the suspension - is it actually a bay suspension? You have a code 21 PCN.

(https://i.ibb.co/JWMR6mKW/r2.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/ymfKr3Y6/r1.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/4bnw70Z/r3.jpg)
Title: Redbridge PCN
Post by: Hashim on October 12, 2025, 03:43:12 pm
Dear Sirs.

A bit of a long shot here. I received this on a Sunday in Redbridge when I parked in a suspended bay. 

https://ibb.co/cKJYfVQg
https://ibb.co/nq38mzh0

No work is evident since the beginning of the suspension it's been 2 days.

I am disabled and my badge was clearly displayed.

Thanks

Hashim