Parking charge notices

How to Complain or make Representation.

• Complaining to the local authority.
• The grounds for representation.
• The Notice to Owner (NtO)
• What is formal representation?
• Notices of Acceptance /Rejection/Appeal.

Complaining to the Adjudicator.

• Who are the Adjudicators?
• The grounds for appealing to the Adjudicator
• The appeal process
• What Happens Next?

Statutory Declarations

• About the Statutory Declaration.
• How to complete the Statutory Declaration.
• What happens next?
• Warrant of Execution

Miscellaneous

• The Road Traffic Act 1991.
• Contravention Codes
  

What happens next?

If you win your appeal and your liability for the penalty charge is cancelled, this should be the end of the matter. If you have paid any money to the council, for example to reclaim your vehicle from the removal pound, the council must refund this “forthwith”. If you lose your appeal, you must pay the charge due to the council within 28 days of the Adjudicator’s written decision. If you fail to do so, the council will be entitled to continue enforcement proceedings against you. This will commence with a Charge Certificate.

The Adjudicator has the power to consider an application for costs from either party. However, such instances are extremely rare and if costs are ever awarded, the sums involved are modest.

The only other challenge to an Adjudicator’s decision would be by application for judicial review in the High Court

Charge Certificate.
A Charge Certificate will be issued by the local authority, increasing the penalty charge by 50% if the following apply:
• A ‘Notice of Rejection’ has been issued and you did not pay the penalty charge within 28 days or:
• No appeal to the Adjudicator has been registered at the Parking and Traffic Appeals Service, 28 days after being issued with the ‘ Notice of Rejection’.
• An appeal has been refused by the Adjudicator and payment has not been received within 28 days.
• You have informed the Adjudicator that you intend not to proceed with the appeal but do not make a payment within 14 days of your appeal being withdrawn.

You have 15 days from service of the Charge Certificate to pay the penalty charge before it is registered at The Traffic Enforcement Centre.

Registration of debt and order for recovery.
If after 14 days of a charge certificate being issued, the penalty charge is still not paid, you will receive this notice from Northampton County Court Traffic Enforcement Centre (TEC).

This is to inform you that an order for recovery has been made against you to recover the unpaid penalty charge. It will contain details of the parking contravention together with notes and guidance on how to complete the Statutory Declaration that accompanies it.