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ms_wilson

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  1. I would like a recommendation for a local solicitor, ideally an independent solicitor. I have been contesting an improperly signed PCN relating to Albert Square Kennington with Lambeth Council for the last 13 months. The fine was £65 but I contested it as the signs were placed after the entrance to the prohibited zone, not visible from the turning prior to the zone which I understand is non compliant with the legal requirements An FOI I requested shows 20 people *per* *day* have been fined at this junction since at least October 2020 made me super angry and realise this is a huge matter of public interest. Lambeth Council have done absolutely nothing to make this junction properly signed since I raised the issue a year ago and are still tricking/fining 20 people a day; more than £600k over a year ago so probably more than £1m now. Instead of engaging with me Lambeth have ignored everything I have sent… tones of documentary evidence. They say the signage is fine but at no point have had it independently checked. I have had two adjudications where I presented black and white facts from the Road Traffic Regulations, which were both a total biased farce and it also turned out eventually that the adjudicators weren’t even qualified solicitors/barristers like they should be. A complaint about this was of course ignored. The whole thing has been a total corrupt nightmare from day one. Lambeth Council have kept sending me fine letters while ignoring all of my complaints and representations, but crucially they have not taken me to court to enforce the fine. For me this is an issue of right and wrong, but to Lambeth Council it’s an easy way to trick and bully people to fill their coffers. Today at 7.30am my husband saw a woman clamping our car. She told me our ~£20k car would towed the same day if I didn’t pay her £514. She showed me ID which did not look official and I couldn’t verify as it was 7.30 in the morning. She did not possess a court order and when I asked her for a court order she showed me something on her iPad which she said was a court order from Northampton County Court, but it didn’t have the word “Northampton” anywhere on it. She filmed me and my minor children via her bodycam inside our private property and nobody was dressed. She refused to stop filming inside my private property when I asked her to. I have the whole thing on CCTV. I had to pay the £514 on the spot to be able to take my disabled child to school. She tried to personally phish my card details to which I refused and I eventually got a link to pay online. I want to reiterate we weren’t taken to court or served with a single court order or warning… this just happened out of the blue while simultaneously the Lambeth CEO and Highways Team and head of Fraud were all ignoring my emails. This is horrific and could seemingly happen to anyone. I have done some digging and understand that what happened to me this morning was probably illegal… but after my lack of success with totally one-sided communication with Lambeth Council over the last 13 months I have decided it’s time to get a lawyer involved. Can anyone recommend someone please? Thanks
  2. Hi there I would love recommendations on air conditioning suppliers. We are looking for the type of a/c that is fully integrated with all the hardware on the roof rather than visible in any rooms. Thanks Amy
  3. We have a good electrician who we have worked with for about five years but recently something happened that had left me pretty annoyed. I asked our electrician to come by to move a plug socket in the kitchen fairly urgently. He came the following week. We hadn?t agreed a price. I was at home but upstairs with our tiny baby pretty much the whole time. He turned up with another electrician and my understanding is that they installed the plug very quickly, perhaps within an hour. My husband was liaising with the electricians. It turns out that rather than leaving when they had done the plug they asked him if there were any more jobs that needed doing while they were there. They ended up moving some light switches and installing some lamps. I then got an invoice for ?600. I queried this with the electrician and he said he billed me for two electricians for a whole day. I am upset about this as I feel taken advantage of. I wasn?t available on the day yet I am the one who is now expected to pay for all of this, and ultimately I only asked for a plug socket to be installed which took one person less than an hour. I really think it?s unreasonable to be slammed for an invoice for ?600 and that the electrician has kind of taken advantage of a chaotic post-baby household. What should I do?
  4. Goose Green school have submitted a planning application to replace all their windows with single glazed units. I am angry that such a large investment is being made on such an environmentally irresponsible and short sighted solution. I think the units should be double glazed to reduce the school?s carbon footprint and reduce the heating costs. I also think they should have addressed the options of using coatings to reflect light on south facing aspects to reduce the heat in summer. If anyone else wants to oppose this the planning application on the Southwark Portal is here: https://planning.southwark.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=documents&keyVal=QDIQ9ZKBGW800
  5. Adam completely cleared the des foliage from our garden at the end of summer and pruned everything into shape when it was a total mess. He was so efficient much much quicker than others I have used in the past. Definitely recommended thank you!
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