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PCN for £0.00?!

Tamino79
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Received a PCN today from the County Council. It’s a legit notice, definitely not a scam, but the fine issued is £0.00. I’m advised that if I pay within 14 days it will be reduced to £0.00, which is nice. I rang up to ‘pay’ and after typing in the code I was told the PCN was now cancelled! Anyone had this before?
The offence (if it makes any difference was parking for over 2 hours). Again, it’s irrelevant but it did irritate me that I know for a fact that the half dozen cars adjacent to me had all been there all morning as well but I was the only one with a ticket.
The offence (if it makes any difference was parking for over 2 hours). Again, it’s irrelevant but it did irritate me that I know for a fact that the half dozen cars adjacent to me had all been there all morning as well but I was the only one with a ticket.
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Sounds like a CEO who needed re-training on how to use his/her handheld device! It's cancelled so it's over.
PRIVATE 'PCN'? DON'T PAY BUT DON'T IGNORE IT (except N.Ireland).
CLICK at the top or bottom of any page where it says:
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I am assuming the PCN came in the post so the council breached GDPR (no reasonable cause to access your data). If so, I would send a letter before action for breach of GDPR requesting £300. Let us know the response. I will help you at no cost to you - and no financial gain to me (beamerguy - despite less than 1000 posts I really do not need/want the money).Tamino79 said:Received a PCN today from the County Council. It’s a legit notice, definitely not a scam, but the fine issued is £0.00. I’m advised that if I pay within 14 days it will be reduced to £0.00, which is nice. I rang up to ‘pay’ and after typing in the code I was told the PCN was now cancelled! Anyone had this before?
The offence (if it makes any difference was parking for over 2 hours). Again, it’s irrelevant but it did irritate me that I know for a fact that the half dozen cars adjacent to me had all been there all morning as well but I was the only one with a ticket.
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zhonguonuren said:I am assuming the PCN came in the post so the council breached GDPR (no reasonable cause to access your data). If so, I would send a letter before action for breach of GDPR requesting £300. Let us know the response. I will help you at no cost to you - and no financial gain to me (beamerguy - despite less than 1000 posts I really do not need/want the money).
In any case, why would you think fleecing a public body of £300 for a complete non-event is a good idea - apart from greed. Sure, take private parking companies to the cleaners, but the whole concept of financial penalties and the like against tax-funded bodies doesn't achieve much.
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I agree with Slithy Tove about the LBA, but it might warrant a "give the council a polite reminder about them doing this without reason"?
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I had a different demand once for £0.00 from a previous ISP some time ago.
The only way they said it could be stopped was by sending a cheque for zero pounds and zero pence as it was a computer issue at their end generating this.
From the Plain Language Commission:
"The BPA has surely become one of the most socially dangerous organisations in the UK"2 -
It could also have been a "warning".0
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