Southwark Council - would you belief it?

 

In order to send a PCN a council, Southwark in this case, must have a belief that a contravention has occurred.

 

The modern day method of recording possible contraventions is that a computer does it, it then extracts a few seconds of footage, sends off to DVLA for keeper details and then prints out and posts out a PCN.

 

In this big brother system a human being is meant, on behalf of the council, to watch the footage and confirm that a contravention occurred.

As Southwark issued 16,983 bus lane PCNs in the year to 31 March 24 that is an awful lot of tediously boring clips to watch but none should have been issued in Denmark Hill once the markings were eroded to the extent above. Whoever approved this PCN should be sacked but as lease companies will have been paying these on receipt, because the law to transfer is not available for hires of up to 6 months (and transfer for longer agreements requires a degree of permanence in the lease) without looking at them in any detail and gleefully making a load of administrative charges for doing not much, the council cash cow will keep on milking the public.

The operators who are meant to check these clips also should be watching 139,526 moving traffic contraventions (banned turns, yellow box junctions & no motor vehicles low traffic neighbourhoods etc) and must fairly be in a trance by the end of the day if that is all they do.

As Mr Mustard has said before, if patently unlawful PCNs are issued the council should have to give you £130 for each one. A level playing field.

The keeper was in a panic about the PCN and discount as honest people often are. Mr Mustard offered to pay the PCN if it all went wrong in order to bring calm to the situation.

Southwark were quick to see the problem and cancelled at the first time of asking.

 The end.