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By Alan Medic · Posted
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Specific points From my understanding if you challenge a penalty notice you should be allowed to keep the discount if you are unsuccessful I've not challenged one for years (it was Bromley), the outcome was my concerns were reasonable but Bromley had acted within the regs/powers and I was duly allowed to pay at the discounted rate. But is it worth the time/hassle? Particularly as pointed out above you are not in a good position. General comments Fair and proportional. You could argue that this is neither, but you would have to take this up with government Discretion - how much discretion should the enforcement officer have given you? You could complain to Southwark but I'd expect a one liner back. And again to government. There is a general point on resources that most things have been cut back - environmental health, planning, trading standards and highways, so it is difficult to engage with an individuals in government even if you can get contact details. I've gone through LinkedIn and gone high level for example on rogue traders but still not got a response. A few years ago I'd occasionally report builders working outside acceptable hours, tried this recently and found that the team was half the size - even worse if you contact HMRC who were wonderfully helpful in times gone by. That's a fact of life not a complaint. Having said that the TFL Oyster people are great. I believe that fixed penalties are too high in London but best thing to do is avoid them so I am much more cautious than I was maybe twenty years ago when I would have gone off on one. I do have a massive bee on my bonnet about the lack of enforcement after normal hours and it is open season to park on pavements, double yellows and the like. And also that enforcement officers concentrate on the streets with the most return, which is understandable of course, but it pees me off when people park on the zig zags on Forest Hill Road. I once reported a potential crime on Perry Vale, threatening to two police officers doing nothing in a car that I was going to damage cars parked illegally due to an event at the Banqueting House. They told me it was nothing to do with them. Cheers...... I've gone into Lounge territory. -
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