thats right there is no levy on the account

3 Liabilities Gloucester Council Tax £62.32 Remaining Tewkesbury Borough Council £132.44 Remaining Tewkesbury Borough Council £196.24 Remaining The thing is if i pay directly to council thru online portal what will happen then.

this is the letter im writing to them. Reference GLO-T-40xxxx Andrea Nxxxxxxx 93 xxxx Gloucester GL1 xxx 0751xxxxxx Dear Bristow & Sutor and Gloucester City Council. Im writing to both of you because i strongly beleive i have been overcharged with fees From Bristow & Sutor for their last visit. The Outstanding Amount i was owning was £391.00 which i wanted to pay on 13/08/2013 but as Bailiffs have visited me while i was not home and charged me with fees of £180 ? i will not pay anything until this will get resolved. On Bristow & Sutor Charges Page it is as Follows : For Making a visit to premises with a view to Levying distress (where no levy is made) • Where the visit is the first or only visit £24.50 • Where the visit is the second such visit £18.00 Bailiffs have visited me 2 times in total so the charge would be £18 as NO LEVY WAS MADE. I have been told bailiffs have visited me with a van where i don't see a reason why coming to me with a van as there was not Levy or Walking possession and also there is no proof someone came with a van as noone was at home at that time. The Total I'm willing to pay is £409 including bailiffs visit which includes a charge of £18.00 as "only" letter has been put thru letterbox and no levy or walking possesion took a place on 2nd or 1st visit. i hope this will get resolved quickly and i will be expecting your reply as soon as possible. if i will not hear from you or will not agree with outcome i shall seek legal advice. sounds good ?

yeah well i spoke to them and he said its for the van visit. but how can he come to remove something if he doesnt know what we have. he cant just walk in and say im taking whatever i want can he ? obviously if we would let him in which will not happen.

there is no notice of seisure , no papers to say it and nothing. only letters from them saying they will visit.

thats correct. basically when he came first time he tried to enter the property by putting the foot in the door but we were stronger and he moved it away so he wrote from outside what he could see and beleive me its not much he could see only sofa as everything else is round the corner .so its not proof he was in as the desc he will have will be different to what we have. ps, i dont think office has the letter he wrote by the way they are sending the letters. i remember years ago when they came to my house and wrote everything they were sending different letters.

i beleive council will not take the payment as last time i tried they said i have to deal with bailiff as they have no power to do anything. also its for 3 councils so 3 different ammounts and different references. so if council will not accept the payment should i make a payment to bristow thru online for £391 ? i know they cant charge on top of charges.

no it is most writing in red : Important Notice A Bailiff Removal Team visited today to remove your goods for sale by public auction. the car was not by my house so its not on the car. so. i should write to them there was no levy and they need to amend the fee to £18 and pay the £391 tomorrow and tell them i will pay the £180 fees next month and then send the letter ? thank you

Hi all, right lets go from begining. Bristow and sutor has started sending letters for £1800 council tax which we started making payments by instalments of £400 every fortnight. apparently we have missed and forgotten making last payment of £391 and month later they send warning letter saying we have to pay it otherwise they will visit. they came to our house few days ago but we didnt open the door and he put the letter thu with fees of £180. i have spoken to them and i told them we were about to make a full payment tomorrow (friday) but because £180 fees is ridicilous we will not pay it and they said thats because he came with a van to remove the goods and i told him there is no proof he came with a van and the charges are stupid and it should have only be £18. he has been here once but we did not let him in so he has no list of goods. he said we can make the payment of £391 tomorrow and the £180 fees next month. we are not going to pay £180 as its bit stupid. are the charges right ? what you guys reckon we should do ? thanks in advance for help.

yes been to court today and they signed the stat dec. they said to wait for another summons. i was thinking to go to tewkesbury council and ask them to scrap the court as we made agreement to pay off the overpayment. u think it would help ?

rang the court and they done the stat dec so bailiffs are put to sleep, she has a court hearing on Monday. question, what will happen now ? how is the process ? will they cancel the fine as well and the court will start from beginning ? can the borough council say she is paying for the original offence no more court ? the reason why the court happened is borough council has send letters to previous address for interview why she didn't stop the housing benefit but she could not attend and she moved in between so they put it to court and court was sending letters as well to old address but because she didn't attend they found her guilty and court issued fine but i spoke to the council and they accepted the overpayment by instalment. thank you everyone for help without you i would be nowhere. take care all

right, spoke to court again and its the court that issued the amount borough council has put her to court and because she didnt attend she was found guilty and they made a fine of £600 + other charges so total £745. because she didnt reply to the court letters it went to marstons totalling £1045. i told her she was not aware of any court happening as she was not living there she said do the statutory declaration by phoning and making an appoitment but how long that will take i dont know and baillifs will come tomorrow if i dont pay them. should i make new tenancy agreement for my mum and put her in the house until they come and she can show them my wife dont live here anymore so bailifs will be put to sleep until the stat dec is done or should i hope he will knock and nothing else.

should we just do the stat dec and bring it to them and see what they say ? the problem is i told the baillif guy i will pay on friday so not much left and if i dont pay he will come again.

which powers u mean

well yes the council taken her to court as the court hearing was 07/01/2013 but she didnt attend because all the papers were send to the old address.

well its not council basically she was receiving more money in housing than she was entitled to for the period of 7 months so its failure to make change in circumstances. basically overpayment for housing benefit.

hi, thanks for your answers, just spoke to a woman in the court and she said it was for date dec 2011 to july 2012 from tewkesbury borough council as she failed to tell them she moved to another area. i have told her they had enough time to check her up on address where she lives and send the letters there and she said they tried to trace her but no luck so they had to give it to the marstons to deal with it. she also said he has right to enter the property with police as i asked if he has right to gain entry to the property. tomorrow is last day and i dont know what to do if to move all the valuables out or ignore them and hope a miracle will happen.

cant be dvla as she has no licence and no car, never driven one. council tax was with different company and the sum of £700 something does not come right.he said the original sum is around £700 but total is £1045 now. well bailiffs came to new address but court papers and the rest was send to old address we believe , if we would have an idea something is owned she would have paid it without problems but the court happened without her knowledge for and on old address. i think its better to speak to court tomorrow and explain them the situation. if they grant statutory dec. what will happen then ? thank you for help

Good evening all, im really out of power to do anything but i need to ask for help. let me explain what happened. we used to live at our previous address for one year and we have moved to new address oct 2012 so we are living at this address for 8 months now. last week when i was in work some guy from marston came to our house and demanded £1045 from HMCS Gloucester, she did not let him in but his foot was between the door so she could not close the door but then he asked if she is pregnant and she said yes so he removed it straight away. she then rang me and i spoke to him. i tried to get some information what it is for but all he said failure to notify of change in circumstances but he did not have a clue who issued it except HMCS Gloucester issued the Marston to deal with it. . the court happened on 7/1/2013 when we were at the new address and this was claimed and all papers send to old address. now the thing is we dont know what it is for and we never received any letters at all either from court or marston as we believe everything was send to the old address. so court issued something at the old address even we were not living there and the court has happened without our knowledge. no papers received at all she is single mother with 2 kids he did not enter the property we dont know what it is for now i have told him i will pay this friday just to get him out of sight. he said he has warrant to enter the property and she can be jailed for not letting him in and he can call police and locksmiths. anyone has ideas what to do ? i have rang the marston office and they dont know who issued the " failure to notify of change in circumstances * or something like that. she just had bristow and sutor for council paid of sum for £1900 and she cant afford to pay another £1045 for not even knowing what for. thank you in advance