Clean Air Zone Late Representations and Deemed Service Challenge

For a Clean Air Zone PCN where the authority says your challenge was out of time, or where you are close to the deadline. Built on regulation 3, which deems service a set number of working days after posting rather than on the date printed on the notice. Includes the change made by SI 2026/752 from 7 September 2026, under which non first class post to a UK address is deemed served on the fourth working day rather than the second, which moves the deadline in the motorist’s favour. Puts the authority to proof on the date and class of posting.

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CLEAN AIR ZONE PENALTY CHARGE NOTICES IN ENGLAND, OUTSIDE GREATER LONDON.

That means Birmingham, Bristol, Bath, Sheffield, Bradford, Newcastle and Gateshead, Portsmouth, and any other charging Clean Air Zone made under the Transport Act 2000.

DO NOT USE FOR THE LONDON ULEZ, LEZ OR CONGESTION CHARGE. Those run on a different Act and different Regulations, they have six grounds rather than seven, they have NO procedural impropriety ground, and appeals go to the Road User Charging Adjudicators instead of the Traffic Penalty Tribunal. Sending this letter to Transport for London would cite the wrong law at the wrong tribunal.

DEADLINE: representations must reach the charging authority within 28 days of the date the Penalty Charge Notice was SERVED. Service is deemed, not the day you opened the envelope. See the note in the letter.

Only use a ground that is genuinely true for your case. Do not pay the discounted amount if you intend to challenge, because payment ends the dispute.

[YOUR FULL NAME]

[YOUR ADDRESS LINE 1]

[YOUR ADDRESS LINE 2]

[YOUR POSTCODE]

[YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS]

[DATE]

[NAME OF THE CHARGING AUTHORITY, for example Birmingham City Council]

[ADDRESS FOR REPRESENTATIONS, TAKEN FROM YOUR PENALTY CHARGE NOTICE]

RE: FORMAL REPRESENTATIONS AGAINST A PENALTY CHARGE NOTICE

[NAME] CLEAN AIR ZONE

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Complete letter with all applicable grounds for this charge type
All statutory references cited by section, schedule, and paragraph
Relevant case law where applicable
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