Having browsed the posts on this forum I found that an unexpected Xmas present of a £100 PCN from Bexley Council may not have been executed properly.
Besides that fact that I stopped for seconds to allow my elderly mother to post a letter, beside the fact that the camera car was using the only parking space close to the post box and beside the fact that they only had visible notices facing oncoming traffic, i.e not for my direction of travel!
The PCN (below) shows different dates for the date of posting and the date of notice.
hcandersen yesterday wrote this in another post about the same thing from the same council...
1. I have looked on the guidance notes which say for a posted ticket, the date of issue and date of posting must be the same ... why is this and if they are different, is this grounds for appealing the ticket.
The council have made a mistake and the PCN/NtO is unenforceable.
The regs state that:
2. A regulation 10 penalty charge notice, in addition to the matters required to be included in it by regulation 3(4) of the Representations and Appeals Regulations, must state—
(a) the date of the notice, which must be the date on which it is posted;
My questions are:
a) do I claim an invalid traffic Order or procedural impropriety
b) where are these regulations, because I couldn't find it anywhere on the Council's website or in the Traffic management Act 2004?
TIA for your time and effort in helping me sort this.
The notice in question: