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Yeah he's fortunately not been daft enough to pay so far. I think he wanted to take it to another LVT and effectively present it as something he'd be happy to resolve through a formal REsidents ASsociation if the freeholder would only recognise it, and hope that the LVT would push them to recognise. But that approach worries me as they might find differently to the first LVT - the one which originally considered it unfair to charge for parking. If so his defense goes out the window.
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The LVT isn't going to take part in any sort of horse-trading like that. The LVT has already made its decision on the parking charges, and so isn't going to revisit that point unless there's been a material change of circumstances. If he wants to use the LVT ruling on parking charges as a negotiating lever, a claim in the County Court for a declaration is the better way to achieve this, I would've thought.
Either just ignore the demands for payment, or issue a claim in the local County Court for a declaration that the sums aren't payable, relying on the LVT decision. Assuming that the sums in question haven't been paid. If they have, it's more complicated as you'd have to bring a claim in unjust enrichment to recover them.