I have regretfully had to add the following message to the council sticky:
June 2025 update on one-on-one support: If you want me to personally look into your PCN you are welcome to email the PCN to me directly at ivanleo@gmail.com but this will incur a charge of £10 plus VAT (please attach all sides of all pages, and put the PCN number in the subject line).
and for the sake of transparency I'm going to explain the reasons for this.
I am constantly swamped with requests for help and while I would absolutely love to personally help everyone, there are not enough hours in the day to do this, and I cannot be up till 1 am every night answering requests for help, this is just not sustainable and not good for my health either.
When I do not have an outstanding backlog of appeals to type up I will start going through forum posts as I used to, but this has not been the case since November 2023 and I doubt it will happen any time soon. Obviously advice given via the forum is (and always will be) free of charge but I don't have time to personally look at many if any posts at present.
I realise using pricing to reduce demands on my time is a drastic measure, but the only alternatives would be to randomly pick and choose who I help (which would seem entirely arbitrary) or just ignore everyone who contacts me directly, and I don't see how either of those alternatives would be any better.
Quite a few left Pepipoo for the same reason over the years. I know Edgar, Bogsy and Clark Kent retired from posting because the demand on time became too much for them. Even Hippo retired for a while. Your less involvement CP will be a great loss but it does seem as one member retires another steps forward just as you did. As time passes, it is getting harder to win because councils read this forum and use it to tidy up their paperwork and approach.
We are all at different stages in our lives. I packed in my self-employed work because of the COVID situation and now enjoy my retirement by engrossing myself in the fight for justice. This forum is the best and we are improving all the time. cp8759 is the Mozart of the parking world - and I have said it to several adjudicators. I guess that makes me Salieri! As for the man who does not like mustard he doesn't! - he is an absolute gem too.
I hope my karma is good and that, when I enter the Heavenly Orchestra, I will sit at the back of the second violins and be able to park for free.
Only joined today, but was a member of Pepipoo before.
Have a little more time now, so will chip in where I can help to assist.
Older members will remember by username, I am sure.
Used to be a regular at what was then called PATAS in Islington (on first term names with the admin staff and certain Adjudicators)
@interlog Where's the big cat avatar?
It would be great if you offered your services as a representative because I know you have considerable experience.
Quite a few left Pepipoo for the same reason over the years. I know Edgar, Bogsy and Clark Kent retired from posting because the demand on time became too much for them. Even Hippo retired for a while. Your less involvement CP will be a great loss but it does seem as one member retires another steps forward just as you did. As time passes, it is getting harder to win because councils read this forum and use it to tidy up their paperwork and approach.
They may well watch us - if they have the time. So may the Tribunal. I have tempered my language over the years, of course. There are many experts who can still advise while the actual no. of representatives is still rather small. People do not realise how long it takes to prepare an appeal using what JEdgar used to call "the scattergun approach". For a Lambeth bus lane case I did a few days ago, I spent hours digging in to all aspects. The hearing lasted just a few minutes and I only said a few pleasantries! And so forth.
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