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    • just to be clear here..... the DVLA do not send letters if a drivers licence address differs from any car's V5C that shows the same driver as it's registered keeper.
    • sorry she is a private individual, the cars are parking on her land. she can clamp the cars. only firms were outlawed from doing it bazza. thats what the victims of people dumping cars on their drives near airports did and they didn't not get prosecuted.    
    • The DVLA keeps two records of you. One as a driver and one for your car. If they differ you might find out in around a month when they will send you a reminder as well as to your other half for their car. If you receive nothing then you can be fairly sure that you were tailgating though wouldn't explain why they didn't pick up your car on one of drive past their cameras. However even if you do get a PCN later then your situation will not change. The current PCN does not comply with the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 Schedule 4 which is the main law that covers private parking. It doesn't comply for two reasons. 1. Section 9 [2][a] states  (2)The notice must— (a)specify the vehicle, the relevant land on which it was parked and the period of parking to which the notice relates; The PCN states 47 minutes which are the arrival and departure times not the time you were actually parked. if you subtract the time you took to drive from the entrance. look for a parking place  park in it perhaps having to manoeuvre a couple of times to fit within the lines and unload the children reloading the children getting seat belts on  driving to the exit stopping for cars pedestrians on the way you may well find that the actual time you were parked was quite likely to be around ten minutes over the required time.  Motorists are allowed a MINIMUM of ten minutes Grace period [something that the rogues in the parking industry conveniently forget-the word minimum] . So it could be that you did not overstay. 2] Sectio9 [2][f]  (ii)the creditor does not know both the name of the driver and a current address for service for the driver, the creditor will (if all the applicable conditions under this Schedule are met) have the right to recover from the keeper so much of that amount as remains unpaid; Your PCN does not include the words in brackets and in 2a the Act included the word "must". Another fail. What those failures mean is that MET cannot transfer the liability to pay the charge from the driver to the keeper. Only the driver is now liable which is why we recommend our members not to appeal. It is so easy to reveal who was driving by saying "when I parked the car" than "when the driver parked the car".  As long as they don't know who was driving they have little chance of winning in court. This is partly because Courts do not accept that the driver and the keeper are the same person. And because anyone with a valid motor insurance policy is able to drive your cars. It is a shame that you are too far away to get photos of the car park signage. It is often poor and quite often the parking rogues lose in Court on their poor signage alone. I hope hat you can now relax and not panic about the PCN. You will receive many letters from Met, their unregulated debt collectors and sixth rate solicitors threatening you with ever higher amounts of money. The poor dears have never read the Act which states quite clearly that the maximum sum that can be charged is the amount on the signs. The Act has only been in force for 12 years so it may take a  few more years for the penny to drop.  You can safely ignore everything they send you unless or until they send you a Letter of Claim. Just come back to us if they do send one of those love letters to you and we will advise on a snotty letter to send them. In the meantime go on and enjoy your life. Continue reading other threads and if you do get any worrying letters let us know. 
    • Hopefully the ANPR cameras didn't pick up the two vehicles, but I don't think you're out of the woods just yet. MET's "work" consists of sending out hundreds of these invoices every week so yours might be a few days behind your partner's. There is also the matter of Royal Mail.  I once sold two second-hand books to someone on eBay.  Weirdly the cost of sending them separately was less than the cost of sending them in one parcel.  So to save a few bob I sent them seperately.  One turned up the next day.  One arrived after four days.  They were  sent from the same post office at the same time! But let's hope I'm being too pessimistic. Please update us of any developments.
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in July my housing benefit was stopped as i received child care element of tax credits, due to being a carer for my son.

 

The council said i was not entitled to this child care element and to pay my full rent,

 

 

i got my local MP involved and

 

 

he did a great job

 

 

just this week my housing benefit has been reinstated and payment made to landlord, but

 

 

i fell in arrears on council tax as i had to use the money i used to pay council tax to pay rent,

 

 

i explained this to the council and explained when the housing benefit was reinstated i would be able to catch up in my council tax.

 

They did not like this and are now taking me to court for full amount even though I'm only 2 months behind

(well now 1 month as i have paid the other and the oner will be paid before court date) but they dont care they said they still taking it court as no matter i should have not fell into arrears on it, I explained the situation and she said well you shouldn't have paid for childcare!

I'm outraged as it was essential for my son to be in there to maintain his routine ready to start school,

but she said that doesn't matter and that it still going to court and

 

 

now i owe an extra £49.50 for court fees and another £15 for the order!

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No not till October 31st and I can't attend to defend as I'm away on holiday (booked by family last year as a Christmas present) they sent out a payment plan normally monthly payments but with the added costs

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ok, you have a date.

as has been seen in c'tax threads, there is not much opportunity to 'defend' even if attending. is just a 'rubberstamp' exercise.

 

maybe put in a formal complaint (higher up) to the council, get them to put things on hold/postpone the LO 'formality' whilst investigating.

 

get yr MP involved again

 

bump for further input.

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Pity you could not attend court and question the validity of "court costs" as has been happening elsewhere in the country recently. Have a look at the last few posts on this thread: http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?413648-Reverend-Paul-Nicolson-has-local-authorities-really-worried-as-he-is-quot-willfully-refusing-quot-to-pay-his-council-tax-!!!/page11

 

Hopefully your MP can influence the council and get them to withdraw the LO application - If you can clear the arrears before the end of the month, one could speculate that issuing a summons is nothing more than a money making exercise on the part of the council.

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I know, it would mean leaving 3 days early, I'm fuming it already took me a battle with them for housing benefit.

 

I paid arrears today and will even have next months installment paid before court date, can I write to the court telling them the situation what was 121 PCM is now 176 PCM a huge increase! I've asked for a breakdown and the say it court cost and fees

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.....question the validity of "court costs" as has been happening elsewhere in the country recently. Have a look at the last few posts on this thread: http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?413648-Reverend-Paul-Nicolson-has-local-authorities-really-worried-as-he-is-quot-willfully-refusing-quot-to-pay-his-council-tax-!!!/page11

 

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cheers, hadnt seen that.

there is also dudes thread where says #80 got costs off post hearing http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?423547-My-council-tax-summons../page4

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had the visit and a letter was sent to council with regards to the bill, shocking today I had a call from council saying it was still going to court as i had been in arrears for 2 months so they have every right to demand the full years payment, as paying monthly is at there discretion. They said if i pay full amount by monday they wouldnt take to court, I told them no i can not afford to pay it, and that i had clear the arrears and was now a month in advance, but she still said nope.

 

I have contacted MP and told him, but he said they have had a few cases like this recently and unfortunately unable to pursue further, he said he will write to them again and ask for assistance. as it has been proven they owe me 2 months worth of housing benefit and council tax benefit amounting to £280, this was done with one of there advisors who told me this and wrote it down, but she said it would be up to a manager to get this sorted as it will be at there discretion to sort the back payment.

 

Ive decided to write a letter to the courts, stating that i have now clear the arrears and I'm now a month in advance and that i will be able to maintain the rest of the monthly payments, and i ve stated the reasons why i have missed the last 2 months and providing evidence

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not sure what writing to the court as such wld do? if council lists it for LO then it seems is, unfortunately, just 'rubberstamped', costs issue aside. partic if you wont be there. see the c'tax threads.

have you made a formal complaint to the council as well as mp writing. that shld escalate it and get it ftao someone higher up than the 'clerk/advisor.'

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well they got the liability order, and now I'm having to pay £176 a month not impressed as now it puts us in more finical hardship! they still haven't sorted the housing benefit out so even then we may be entitled to a reduction in council tax but nope they not interested.

 

Im waiting for a response from the formal complaint i put in

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even the civil courts have 'recognised' that LO's at the mags are just a rubber stamp exercise.

the council has the power/authority to change things thereafter, so keep at it.

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i wanna cry over it! I'm going into the offices tomorrow over it all, turns out we should have a reduction of £65 of bill due to benefit, but they say that will only over court cost and fee! Ive asked for a tribunal over the housing and council tax benefits now, hopefully they will help

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if you are appealing about HB decision, you need to do through the Council, who will review case to if they can to change decision to your favour.

If they cant, the Council will send your papers to HM Courts and Tribunals Service

 

There are different rules for Council Tax support, you first need to lodge a dispute with Council.

They have 2 months to respond to you.

Once you get the response, you then have 2 months to appeal directly to the Valuation Tribunal.

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rubbish, sorry but they dont care. Im now going to a tribunal over it all just waiting for a date. Im gonna bring this up with them as i had to pay £176 this week alone to them for the ct and they wrote to me saying if i dont pay by the 7th of each month they will enforce the libablity order with out notice

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good luck with the hearing stuggling. let thread know how you get on. post up for any help.

note that councils can amend LO's post.

could try get them to 'suspend' things subject to the investigation/tribunal.

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Unfortunately the CT rules were written in a very very draconian one sided way, if the councils DON'T collect x amount they are fined heavily, so they are 'protecting their assets'.

 

I wonder what UKIPs policy on changing the CT rules will be,

 

a) Make them simpler - ie NO fining of councils and NO Liabilities to be issued in the current financial year. LOs only to be issued 3 months after the end of the Financial year....

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Just in case you don't read my post, I had my court costs cancelled twice! This last time was because despite telling them I could not pay the amount they requested, they insisted I did. However at no time over many emails, did anyone tell me I could have paid over 12 months instead of 10. If they had, there wouldn't have been a problem. The woman I spoke to cancelled it over the phone straightaway. If this is the case with you, they should be made to explain themselves.

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hi just an update I've only just got the papers for the tribunal, over the housing benefit and council tax benefit, it turns out that I'm owed 416 by them for my landlord as they have been underpaying since june when the tax credits changed but they had not noticed, even though the papers say i told them and handed in documents showing this. they have told me that they have suspended the payments so i called and they said oh it was an error so sorry we will issue a payment to landlord on next payment date, I'm fuming as it put me in arrears with landlord by 3 months!

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cheers for updating.

looking like then is their fault. a ground for them taking back the LO?

keep thread informed, and good luck.

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