Open letter to London Mayor re: ULEZ

OPEN LETTER to the Mayors Office 22nd June 2024. Also sent by email.


Dear London Mayor,


I understand this is a busy time for your office, however, I am writing following a year of efforts to resolve ULEZ charges and fines on my ULEZ compliant vehicle.

There have not been sufficient responses from TFL, only advice that I can scrap my van under the scrapage scheme, although I have sent in the certificate of compliance and the updated logbook from DVLA that shows my van as Euro 6 (ULEZ compliant).

I am still paying ULEZ charges every day that I drive and I am owed several thousands of pounds from TFL, not to mention £1750 to release my vehicle from Marston holdings, when it was taken from the road and put in the pound without warning in the lead up to Christmas. They then closed for Christmas meaning I had to cancel plans I had made.
My work equipment was in the back of the van, which was scheduled for auction, on paper two days after they opened after Christmas, but in reality this was one day. Initially I thought it had been stolen, as it was it took great effort to recover it before it was sold on for a fraction of what it was worth.

Not only were the fines and charges made when they shouldn’t have been, but the reason I stopped paying was that TFL stopped taking the payments from my card, I didn't actually stop making the payments my side and the bank did not block them. Much of this has been uncovered due to fact checking on request of the journalist.

Payment to Marston holdings went through to Marston before the van was seized, though the app said it had failed it shows on my bank statement. I have not received a response to any of this despite sending in evidence special delivery, which was logged with Royal Mail as received, sending tens of emails and making many phone calls a month over the course of a year

I will likely make this an open letter in hope of receiving a response. Two previous letters are on my blog here: https://www.lee-simmons.blog/van-saga , also attached with full details.

With the upcoming election my MP can not currently support my case, due to parliament currently being dissolved. He and the journalist, acting independently of each other, were able to receive responses (though insufficient) whereas I have been entirely ignored.

I attach the updated logbook and letter from my bank.


Regards,


Ms Lee Simmons