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Some legal advice please.
I had to leave my bike locked to some railings beside full cycle racks in Waterloo Station a few days ago. In a place I use every day which is technically not to be used but never had a problem in years. I had to travel abroad unexpectedly and in coming back the bike had desapeared. When asked, the sation management stated that they had removed illegally or abandoned bikes from that platform that had been tagged for removal months in advance. I know this because I have been seeing one bike nearby with the removal notice attached just beside mine for several months. They took me to the place where they store these bikes and mine was not there. They say it must have been stolen but I find the coincidence more than suspicious.
The question is: Do TFL have an obligation to notify in advance their intention to remove a bike? Or can they just do it if the bike is not in a designated bike parking space?
The platform is obviously well covered by CCTV and it should have filmed the moment the bike was removed (by tfl or others) if the obligation exists, there is some hope for compensation from tfl, if not... well, another stolen bike to go on that sad thread. Does anyone have any idea?