Newham Council are Cheats - #8

 

This is the greatest cheat so far of the lot. What the adjudicator has picked up on here, as he wrote about it in a different decision, is that the event which took place on 15 June 2024 took place in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park but not also in the London Stadium. The traffic orders contains a provision which enables Newham Council to give out event day PCNs on days on which there is an event at the London Stadium deemed by The Traffic Manager to be large enough to warrant an event day and he so designates it. By accident or sloppiness that traffic order has been interpreted as if also applying to events taking place solely in the park.

Here is the relevant part of one such traffic order:

This clearly limits events to those taking place within The London Stadium the park and postcode being its address.

Mr Mustard having picked up on this nuance asked Newham Council for the amount of  income thus derived. It is a shocking amount.

The odd 32p is odd.

So that is £216,429 of cheating.

Now that Newham Council know that their actions are unlawful (thanks to the other tribunal decision) they will surely fall over themselves to do the right thing and make immediate refunds?

Mr Mustard doubts it as they are serial cheats.