parking offence & Bailiffs

worried68

In Jan 2013 I received a parking ticket from Harrow Council. I paid £110 in March 2013 and heard nothing more until January 2014 where I received an order for recovery of unpaid penalty charge of £62.00. The penalty charge number was the same as previously so I completed the form stating I had paid it.


I then received from the Traffic Enforcement Centre in Northampton a letter saying they had been unable to process the correspondence and suggested I email their helpdesk. I emailed the help desk with a copy of the receipt from Harrow and never received a reply, and no further correspondence


Saturday 15th March 2014 -15 months later my car was clamped. I had to pay Newlyn the bailiffs £597.60 to have the clamps removed from my car.

Has anyone any idea as to how to appeal - has anything similar happened to them? I have asked the bailiffs for breakdown as to how they arrived at that figure, no paperwork was given to me except a receipt.


Harrow Council do not advertise a phone number of on their website so it is difficult to get them to respond to emails.


Any help, advice, suggestions would be much appreciated as I do want to recover my money as feel the whole situation could have been avoided if they had replied to letters.

da_rule

Telephone number for Harrow Council: 020 8863 5611

Also, it may be best to head over to the PePiPoo forum for more specific advice as they have a bit more expertise on these council matters.

Stroma

I suggest you post this on https://www.pepipoo.com as well. Do you have proof you paid as in bank statements or receipts or anything like that? You will need to contact the council on this, the £62 is an odd figure. You may also try bailiffadviceonline , they charge a tenner for help, that covers their costs but they are expert in this