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Civil penalty charge notices (Councils, TFL and so on) / Re: Tower Hamlets, Code 53 - entering pedestrian zone, travel from Hanbury St to Quaker St
« on: July 18, 2025, 03:18:49 pm »
Just to say that have got this resolved at long last.

TEC processed the statutory declaration and ordered the council to cancel the order for recovery and the charge notice.
Have been able to get the original PCN fine imposed and can now close this issue - saving me a couple of hundred pounds.

Thanks for the advice provided here.

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Civil penalty charge notices (Councils, TFL and so on) / Re: Tower Hamlets, Code 53 - entering pedestrian zone, travel from Hanbury St to Quaker St
« on: July 02, 2025, 05:36:22 pm »
Update:


Following guidance provided on: https://www.ftla.uk/announcements/charge-certificates-london-local-authorities-and-tfl-act-2003-london-local-autho/

After nearly SIX months of waiting, the charge was finally registered with TEC.

I received a recovery notice too:  was able to get the PE3 sworn that came with it and have emailed a scanned copy to TEC.
This has been sent in 1 day before the 21 day-period given (Due for 4th July).

I have received an automated response/acknowledgement from the TEC mailbox: is that sufficient, or should I follow-up with them by phone given the cut-off date is so near? Advice/experience on this appreciated -
@Incandescent


TIA

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Civil penalty charge notices (Councils, TFL and so on) / Re: Tower Hamlets, Code 53 - entering pedestrian zone, travel from Hanbury St to Quaker St
« on: February 03, 2025, 09:31:49 am »
Been over 30 days since the cutoff date for the charging cert. has passed. TEC have yet to confirm debt registered: assumed this would have been done sooner. Is this delay typical, or varies between authorities?


As I queried before - do I wait and just keep checking with TEC every week until they confirm claim is registered, or if I have an option to contact the authority to discuss, do I take that option? @cp8749 @Incandescent


TIA.

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Civil penalty charge notices (Councils, TFL and so on) / Re: Tower Hamlets, Code 53 - entering pedestrian zone, travel from Hanbury St to Quaker St
« on: January 22, 2025, 04:54:49 pm »
Quick update: still has not been registered with TEC, so am continuing with weekly checks with them.

Since then, I have now found a way to contact the council traffic dept (Via email): should I attempt to contact and flag the issue with them, or just wait for this process to continue silently?

TIA

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Civil penalty charge notices (Councils, TFL and so on) / Re: Tower Hamlets, Code 53 - entering pedestrian zone, travel from Hanbury St to Quaker St
« on: December 26, 2024, 10:36:20 pm »
Thanks for the info.
Yes - the name and address on the charge certificate are both correct.

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Civil penalty charge notices (Councils, TFL and so on) / Tower Hamlets, Code 53 - entering pedestrian zone, travel from Hanbury St to Quaker St
« on: December 26, 2024, 01:00:37 am »
Hi, Reposting as advised by @Incandescent

I've received an increase charge certificate from Tower Hamlets council. I never received the PCN, so obviously am upset about this and feel this is very unfair given the notice states there is no statutory right to discuss this matter any further.

On the day, we were driving near Spitalfields market, and followed sat nav to surrounding roads. It was very busy on the day (Sunday afternoon) and several roads were blocked or shut-off with events like street markets also taking place.

I now see there is signage marking where the pedestrian zone on Google maps- with timings too- so I can't really dispute the charge - but being forced to pay more without having received a PCN in the first place is what is hard to accept.

Google link of where incident started - turning left from Hanbury St on to Brick Lane going towards Quaker:
Google Maps link - start


Google link of end of incident: turning onto Quaker St:
Google Maps link - end (Jn, Quaker St)


The letter is dated 19th Dec, giving me till NY day to pay.
Do I have any options, given that there will not likely be much support or responses to queries at this time of year?

Charge certificate notice letter reproduced here (2 pages):







It is not possible to talk to TH council: contact options are online only, and there are no telephone contact options provided by them.

Help appreciated in advance.

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Civil penalty charge notices (Councils, TFL and so on) / Code 53 entering pedestrian zone - Tower Hamlets Council PCN never received, now 50% charge increase
« on: December 23, 2024, 05:28:32 pm »
Hi.

I've received an increase charge certificate from Tower Hamlets council. I never received the PCN, so naturally feel very upset at being extorted in this way. The letter is dated 19th Dec, giving me till NY day to pay. Do I have any options? I've seen that TH council is online only and provides no way to contact them to actually talk to anyone.

The letter received starts:

On 03/11/2024 at 13:27:44 vehicle was seen in Brick Lane ( Hanbury to Quaker) and a
Penalty Charge Notice was issued for the following alleged contravention: 53 - Faling to comply with a restriction on
vehicles entering a pedestrian zone.

A Penalty Charge Notice was sent to you on 08/11/2024 explaining that as you are the person we believe to be the
owner or hirer of the vehicle you had 28 days to make representations or payment.
This Charge Certificate has been served since the penalty charge has not been paid within the appropriate period and
one of the following applies:
1. No representations were made in response to the Notice to Owner.
2. We issued a Notice of Rejection of Representations and we have not been informed of an appeal having been
made to the Adjudicator.
3. An appeal was made to the Adjudicator but was either rejected or withdrawn.
4. We issued a Notice of Rejection of Adjudicator's Recommendation.
As the Penalty Charge has not been paid and no representations have been received, the charge has now increased
by 50% to 195.00 and payment of the increase charge is now due. Accordingly you should now pay the outstanding
amount of 195.00 before the end of the period of 14 days beginning with the date 0F service of this Charge Certificate.


I hold my hand up to the offence: signage was not clear, and the roads were very busy and crowded on the day, so may well be in the wrong - however, the PCN was not received at the registered address. Seems convenient that the PCN was not recieved or responded to, but this letter arrived fine? Don't mean to sound too cynical.

Any advice appreciated. Given that everything will be shutting down as of today, not sure if I have much time to do anything than pay?


TIA.

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