Bailiff calling for congestion charge I was not notified of

LucyLocket99

My partner has just received some post from his old house and in it there are 3 letters from a bailiff requesting increasing amounts of money for a congestion charge he has not paid.
The charge relates back to November, he didn't realise he should have paid a congestion charge but does know he was in London that day.
He has received no notification from London Transport, if he had he would have paid up straight away to take advantage of the reduced fee.
A couple of weeks after the incident he sold the car and moved away.
He has now found out that the bailiffs have also been round to his old house to look for him.
As soon as he received the letters he paid £160 which he had to pay to stop it increasing and he now has 4 weeks to dispute the fine.
As he never received any notification of the fine is he able to get out of the fine at all? Also he can prove he has not been living in the property.
Please help!

HappyMJ

If he wants to dispute it then he should not have paid the penalty. As he has now paid the penalty he will not get it back.

It's not a fine...it's a penalty.

vax2002

This was a civil penalty, an invoice enforced through Bailiffs, payment is 100% and full admittance to the invoice value.
thats the end of the matter.

hallowitch

http://forums.pepipoo.com/index.php?showtopic=56290&mode=threaded&pid=524936

tell him to join this site they will guide you the forms he needs (TE7 &TE9 i think )

because he did not receive any of the statuary notices (because he moved house ) the penalty charge should then revert back to the beginning removing all bailiff fees

he has 21 days to do this from first being aware of the penalty charge

vax2002

He has PAID there ends the line of appeal.

hallowitch

vax2002 wrote: »

This was a civil penalty, an invoice enforced through Bailiffs, payment is 100% and full admittance to the invoice value.
thats the end of the matter.

not quite

even after payment you can file an out of time statutory declaration

System

is the car registered at the old house ? if so that would explain why he never received the paperwork.

plane_boy2000

CHRISSYG wrote: »

is the car registered at the old house ? if so that would explain why he never received the paperwork.

I would assume so as that's the address the bailiffs used, however, is it not an offence to not update the registered keeper of the vehicle as soon as possible?

spiro

First 2 quoted posts have missed the point about selling the car, see 3rd quote.

CHRISSYG wrote: »

is the car registered at the old house ? if so that would explain why he never received the paperwork.

plane_boy2000 wrote: »

I would assume so as that's the address the bailiffs used, however, is it not an offence to not update the registered keeper of the vehicle as soon as possible?

LucyLocket99 wrote: »

Couple of weeks after the incident he sold the car and moved away.

LucyLocket99

vax2002 wrote: »

He has PAID there ends the line of appeal.

He has only paid £160 of a £500 fine to stop them taking further action. It said if he paid this amount he then had 4 weeks to contest the penalty.
We thought this was the safest option to give us time to deal with it.

hallowitch

the fine wont have been £500 this amount will include bailiff fees i think the fine (penalty charge) is about £180

phone traffic enforcement centre on 0845 704 5007 ask them to send you the forms you need once they are returned to traffic enforcement traffic they will inform TFL (transport for London ) and all enforcement action will stop