Notice of Enforcement - Did not receive PCN nor court summons/information

[ekoforshow]

Hi, I'm looking for a bit of advice. I received a Notice of Enforcement from Equita. Important to note that with only getting post once a week now, I received and opened this AFTER the date of payment indicated on the reverse of the letter.

The bigger issue is that I do not know the details of original contravention. I did not receive a PCN prior from the L.B Harrow nor did I get any information that it had been taken to court and a judgement given. Now this notice of enforcement just has in the description of alleged offence:

"A warrant of control was issued by the court for non payment of a penalty Charge Notice due to L.B Harrow on 12/08/2022 regarding FAILING TO COMPLY WITH A SIGN INDICATING"

Nothing else.

I have emailed both the L.B Harrow and Equita to request further information so that I may contest or accept the contravention and noted that as I did not receive the original PCN it be returned to L.B Harrow so I can review the alleged offence. I also informed that I have not changed my address nor changed the registered address of my vehicle nor the vehicle itself as it was bought after I moved to my current address.

I am at a loss at how to proceed and my initial thought when I opened the envelope that it was a scam, however, doing a little digging it is evident that a few boroughs do contract out/pass on fines to this company. Any advice on this would be greatly appreciated

[honeybee13]

Hi.

 

Is there a reason why you didn't receive the correspondence, have you moved house recently?

 

HB

[ekoforshow]

Hi Honeybee13,

 

No I have lived at the same address all year and the car registered at my address since purchase. I have not moved house in all of 2022 and I am at a loss as to why there was no communication prior. My initial reaction when I opened the envelope was "this must be a scam", however, after doing a little research realised that it couldn't be a scam

[unclebulgaria67]

There is a process for dealing with this. But you need to know what offence they have accused you of. As it does not state parking, is most likely driving down a road and not complying with signage. E.g. driving down a pedestrian only part of a road.

 

Please see following linked thread.

 

 

[ekoforshow]

Hi UncleBulgaria67,

 

The one of the problems I face is not knowing what the alleged offence was (Parking contravention/bus lane, yellow box junctions, no right turn etc). As such not sure which of the routes to use. The notice just said "failing to comply with a sign indicating". 

 

So I'm at a loss which of the forms TE7 and TE9 or PE2 and PE3 would be relevant.

[unclebulgaria67]

Yes I edited my post regarding this. Harrow will need to confirm offence details.