NorthernDave
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To be fair, in my experience councils will go to extraordinary lengths to avoid admitting that they're in the wrong.
So read it on the Spalding Today site.Clearly the bike owners hadn't been anywhere near the garage for the 28 days the notice was displayed, in fact the article doesn't mention when they found the bikes were gone so potentially it was quite a while since they had last been to the site.
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Like everybody else I will be interested to hear the outcome but I'm not sure I can trust the Daily Mail to report it accurately.
Crikey the garages have blown away.So read it on the Spalding Today site.
And there's quite a chance that a notice posted on a door could blow away out in Gedney Dyke. Take a look. Windswept doesn't do it justice. https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place...2!3m1!1s0x47d7fc72fc117ddb:0x9d547336210bdaa6
Same as planning application notices which routinely vanish or get posted in the wrong streets?Crikey the garages have blown away.
The notice would have been in a waterproof protective sleeve and securely pinned to the building. After 28 days it would be checked that it was still there.
So read it on the Spalding Today site.
And there's quite a chance that a notice posted on a door could blow away out in Gedney Dyke. Take a look. Windswept doesn't do it justice. https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place...2!3m1!1s0x47d7fc72fc117ddb:0x9d547336210bdaa6
When it comes to legal process any direct communication is by post. If the bike owners didn't give the council their 'new' address (they moved about 40 miles away out of the district 3 years ago) the address the council would have would be the one on the original application form.
The service of a notice is always a last resort and it is standard practice to attach certain types of notices to the premises they relate to. If the garage was in use the notice would have been found.
There's no mention that they'd been paying council tax to South Holland Council since moving out of the district, so I'd bet they'd told them. No clairvoyance needed!Fair point. This story smells of the same sort of criticism which occurs when a "Computer" sends an Invoice or other communication to a two year old, whose details are on the Electoral Register, because their parent failed to complete the form correctly. If you move house, and do not inform all relevant parties, then who's fault is that? I am as ready to bash the Local Council as anyone, but, to be fair, they cannot be expected to be clairvoyant!
Not everyone who pays council tax rents a garage. A tenancy is a separate agreement with its own terms and conditions.