Contact:
  • Parking Services
  • Address:

    PO Box 122, Bristol, BS31 9AE

  • E-mail:
    Parking@bathnes.gov.uk
  • Telephone:
    01225 477133
  • Fax:
    01223 477130
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  • Page Updated:
    22/11/2008
  • Author:
    Kelly Huggins
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Penalty Charge Notices

A guide to your options if the challenge to your parking penalty charge notice (PCN) has been rejected

1. Your options if you decide to pay your PCN

If paid within 14 days from the date of the Council’s letter the discounted rate of £30.00 will be accepted. After this time the original charge of £60.00 will be enforced.

NOTE

You cannot pay the PCN to secure the discounted rate and continue to challenge it.  Once payment has been received the matter is considered closed.

PAYMENT  CAN BE MADE

In person at the Parking Shop in the Guildhall Bath.

By post, to Parking Services

PO BOX 122, Bristol

BS31 9AE

Cheques should be made payable to Bath & North East Somerset Council.                                                                                                                   

By telephone using a credit or debit card on 01225 395097, 01225 395096 or 01225 395094.

PLEASE QUOTE PCN NUMBER AT ALL TIMES

2. Your options if you do not accept the Council's decision

1. The Council has rejected your challenge and is unable to reconsider the decision until a Notice To Owner (NTO) has been issued (28 days after the issue of the Penalty Charge Notice).

Parking Services staff are unable to discuss details of this dispute over the telephone. This is because written evidence is required for audit purposes and for presentation to an Adjudicator if necessary.

(See 3 below)

2. Unless you have been asked to provide specific information within 14 days you must wait for the NTO. Further unsolicited correspondence on this matter will be filed pending the issue of the NTO.

The NTO will be issued to the registered keeper / owner of the vehicle (not the driver) who can then make a formal representation against the issue of the PCN.

3. If the Council rejects the representation it will issue a Notice Of Rejection and details of how to appeal to the Independent Parking Adjudication Service. 

Penalty Charge Notice enforcement procedures are laid down in the 1991 Road Traffic Act. To protect your right of appeal the above procedure must be followed.