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I recently (less than 4 weeks ago) drove a couple of days in Birmingham within their clean air zone. I’ve already got autopay set up for London as I do a fair bit of work down there, and I set up an autopay for Birmingham too so save having to pay it all individually.

I had, apparently wrongly, assumed that it’d work like the London zone where I’d just get a direct debit come out a few weeks after travelling.

Yesterday I received a penalty notice through. And I received another one today.

I still have the email confirming that the direct debit was set up but they don’t appear to have taken it.

Do I have grounds to appeal the 2x £120 fines on the basis that I set autopay up and they haven’t taken it?