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    • Thank you for posting up the results from the sar. The PCN is not compliant with the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 Schedule 4. Under Section 9 [2][a] they are supposed to specify the parking time. the photographs show your car in motion both entering and leaving the car park thus not parking. If you have to do a Witness Statement later should they finally take you to Court you will have to continue to state that even though you stayed there for several hours in a small car park and the difference between the ANPR times and the actual parking period may only be a matter of a few minutes  nevertheless the CEL have failed to comply with the Act by failing to specify the parking period. However it looks as if your appeal revealed you were the driver the deficient PCN will not help you as the driver. I suspect that it may have been an appeal from the pub that meant that CEL offered you partly a way out  by allowing you to claim you had made an error in registering your vehicle reg. number . This enabled them to reduce the charge to £20 despite them acknowledging that you hadn't registered at all. We have not seen the signs in the car park yet so we do not what is said on them and all the signs say the same thing. It would be unusual for a pub to have  a Permit Holders Only sign which may discourage casual motorists from stopping there. But if that is the sign then as it prohibits any one who doesn't have a permit, then it cannot form a contract with motorists though it may depend on how the signs are worded.
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    • pop up on the bulk court website detailed on the claimform. [if it is not working return after the w/end or the next day if week time] . When you select ‘Register’, you will be taken to a screen titled ‘Sign in using Government Gateway’.  Choose ‘Create sign in details’ to register for the first time.  You will be asked to provide your name, email address, set a password and a memorable recovery word. You will be emailed your Government Gateway 12-digit User ID.  You should make a note of your memorable word, or password as these are not included in the email.<<**IMPORTANT**  then log in to the bulk court Website .  select respond to a claim and select the start AOS box. .  then using the details required from the claimform . defend all leave jurisdiction unticked  you DO NOT file a defence at this time [BUT you MUST file a defence regardless by day 33 ] click thru to the end confirm and exit the website .get a CPR 31:14 request running to the solicitors https://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?486334-CPR-31.14-Request-to-use-on-receipt-of-a-PPC-(-Private-Land-Parking-Court-Claim type your name ONLY no need to sign anything .you DO NOT await the return of paperwork. you MUST file a defence regardless by day 33 from the date on the claimform.
    • well post it here as a text in a the msg reply half of it is blanked out. dx  
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I have a 3 bedroom semi detached house, I am out at work during the day so the main amount of electric I use is in the evening, telly, lights, cooker, computer... the usual stuff... The heating is gas central heating on a timer which lights for 1 hr in the morning, and around 6 hours in the evening.

 

I have dual fuel supplied by EDF. I have a digital meter for the electric.

 

 

 

When the meter was last read in October 2008 the reading was 31731... Their latest bill, sent to me on 5th Feb 2009 gave an estimated reading of 33711 meaning I'd used an estimated 1980 units. Although the bill was high, its been winter so its not overly surprising. I have gas central heating but obviously with the darker nights I have my lights turned on more often. The bill was £258.58. I'm used to paying around £150-£250 so no major problem, but I always like to see what the ACTUAL figure is on the meter...

 

 

It was 44891!!

 

 

Woah! 13160 units since the last reading of 31731??!!

 

 

 

I phoned EDF and paid the estimated bill by debitcard. I asked them what they thought the usual level of unit usage per day was and they said around 15-20... According to my meter I've been using around 150 per day every day for 3 months! They asked me to keep a daily check on my meter readings and so far they've been Sunday 44891 - Monday 44915 - Tuesday 45210 - Wednesday 45290

 

 

So thats a 'normalish' 24 units on Sunday-Monday then 295 units for Monday-Tuesday (and I wasn't even home for most of Tuesday!), and then 80 units for Tuesday-Wednesday...

 

 

Other than reporting this for your consumption pleasure, is there any advice any of you can give me as to how to proceed? I've asked EDF to record it on my customer file and will be continuing to log the meter readings... Do I contact the Energy Watchdog? Or BBC Watchdog? Or who!!??

 

 

Help!!

 

PS... The estimated Gas bill was within 10 units of being correct, so no problems with that then! - Just as an aside, we had a couple of powercuts a while back... How does a digital electric meter survive a powercut? Has it its own battery? What happens when the power is cut off for a while, can it possibly corrupt its readings?''

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The above post I meant to post yesterday... I thought I had, but obviously not when I searched for it this morning... I have an immediate update to it:

 

Having got the reading last night of 45290 I phoned EDF and spoke to someone at their callcentre in Sunderland. And they were actually very helpful. They said that the readings were unusually high (no? really?!) and went through a checklist of my usage to see if there was anything unusual which would cause a high electricity turnover. Having gone through their questions, (do you own a hot tub, a sunbed etc... how long do you have the TV on for in the evening... etc) they estimated my usage at 16 units a day. I reread the meter for them at the end of my call and in the 30 mins I had been on the phone with them the reading had gone up to 45295... 5 units in 30 mins!

 

Suffice to say that they agree that there is something amiss and will be contacting me in the next few days to start their investigations...

 

Any advice from people in similar situations would be appreciated... and if anyone does know how a digital meter is affected by powercuts then I would appreciate the info too... All power to my elbow!

 

I'll update with any news...

 

Cheers!

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The above post I meant to post yesterday... I thought I had, but obviously not when I searched for it this morning... I have an immediate update to it:

 

Having got the reading last night of 45290 I phoned EDF and spoke to someone at their callcentre in Sunderland. And they were actually very helpful. They said that the readings were unusually high (no? really?!) and went through a checklist of my usage to see if there was anything unusual which would cause a high electricity turnover. Having gone through their questions, (do you own a hot tub, a sunbed etc... how long do you have the TV on for in the evening... etc) they estimated my usage at 16 units a day. I reread the meter for them at the end of my call and in the 30 mins I had been on the phone with them the reading had gone up to 45295... 5 units in 30 mins!

 

Suffice to say that they agree that there is something amiss and will be contacting me in the next few days to start their investigations...

 

Any advice from people in similar situations would be appreciated... and if anyone does know how a digital meter is affected by powercuts then I would appreciate the info too... All power to my elbow!

 

I'll update with any news...

 

Cheers!

 

 

This definetly needs an accuracy test done, thats an amazing fluctuation. With regards to how powercuts affect metering Im unsure but you could ask for the number of the powerloss distributor for guide on this.

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