Why am I still getting these letters ?!

Ignore them.
In my last place, I declared I did not need one. I had a TV but for some reason, the aerial cable was cut so I could not watch live TV anyway (this was before you could watch live TV over the internet). My TV was only used for my games console and DVDs.
I still had the letters come.

DM has letters go to her office despite declaring for years that there no TV there. It seems they think if you can sit down in a room, you need a license for a TV.

I’ve had one of these at work today. It’s a factory everyone’s busy welding, cutting stuff up etc etc - not a tv anywhere and no time to watch it if there was.
There’s a couple of desktop computers, but again we’re not paid to watch Homes Under the Hammer.
So I did with it what I’ve been doing with all the threatening letters I’ve received over the last 5+ years and binned it.
If you’ve got a case for not paying then don’t.

Actually it was Rotten Apples, 2 posts above mine, they've edited their post, not deleted.

Somebody had written a post immediately above mine where they said you only needed a licence to watch or record live TV channels, so I just posted to point out that you also need one to use iplayer.

Then a few minutes later that poster I replied to deleted their post. I don't have the edit facility.

You need to pay a licence fee if you watch iPlayer regardless of whether you watch the programmes live or not.
That didn't use to be the case.

I don’t really know what this means but the OP isn’t using iplayer.

I think you have the wrong end of the stick.

It's illegal to prevent access to your property for the purpose of maintaining your meters. They remain the property of the supplier, and they have legal obligations to read them, maintain them, and ensure they are safe and fit for purpose.

Many old mechanical meters are nearing the end of their lifecycles, and suppliers are legally bound to replace them at a certain point. If you refuse to permit this, you are preventing the supplier from meeting their legal obligations.

It's not about "being illegal to oppose smart meter installation", it's about the fact it's illegal to prevent the companies with legal obligations to access, maintain, and replace them where necessary.

Maybe but the fact they introduced it off the bat trying to lie that you'd be breaking the law by not taking their shitty product..
Makes me immediately not want one!

I suggest those of you that clearly don’t understand TV licensing rules look up Black Belt Barrister who is a legally qualified chap who will tell you exactly where you stand and why the BBC keep sending these pathetic excuse of warning letters.

We do not watch live TV at all, have no BBC channels installed (yeah that is a thing), or any other live TV streaming for that matter.

We have been visited (by Capita who represent the BBC for licence avoidance) post our declaration. Polite chap and we were perfectly polite back, especially after explaining why we didn’t need one and he asked to come in and check/take a look and we politely told him not a chance.

You may have to get a smart meter soon a lot of the old technology is not going to work any more soon. It doesn't cost anything and might actually save you money at least in the short term.

Plus to use iplayer

@LatteLady it iss actual letters not emails and definitely not a scam.

edited as I see you've already corrected

My mum bought a house right before lockdown and ended up never moving in to it. She filled in the online form and the house was completely empty for two years. She was sent dozens of threatening letters from TV licensing. They said that they could see she had a TV and all sorts of bollocks. The language they use is so menacing.

It’s little wonder people think you have to have one because that’s what the inference is.

Just ignore them, I've been getting them for 10 years and they've never actually come to the house.
They just cycle through being increasingly threatening and then go back to the first one again.
I put them straight in the recycling.

Who rattled your cage?

If you had read earlier posts and replies I clearly said I stood corrected and why I had made the error.

OP, if you’ve filled in the declaration correctly, you should get an acknowledgement in the post. I do it every two years. It’s could be your declaration wasn’t received or submitted properly. Defo worth doing again.

The likeholhood of someone turning up is very slim and if they do, you don’t have to let them in. You just say you’ve filled in the declaration and that should be the end of that.

You’re the only one on the thread giving shyie advice, and if you had read the comments before yours then you’d have known you were wrong before you posted. So it’s a bit cheeky to tell another poster off for repeating information in previous posts when you clearly posted without reading anything.

You’re late to the party. Your shite advice is not needed now.

No she doesn't. Don't offer advice if you're gonna talk pure incorrect shite.

Yes, so it would seem. I was corrected earlier 😀

I suspect that the emails you have received are actual a scam... a couple of years ago I received them, although my DD was paid up.

@4wardlooking
No, she doesn’t. You do not need a license to own a TV. You only need a license if you watch any live TV on any channel or if you watch anything on BBC iplayer. If you don’t do those things then you do not need a license.

I don’t watch live TV on any channel or app. I only ever use my firetv stick. And I don’t have the iplayer app downloaded because I don’t watch anything on BBC. So I don’t pay for a license.

It would be interesting to know how much the BBC spaffs up the wall chasing up all these dreadful non payers and if they make back how much they're spending.

I've never understood why I need a licence to watch channels that are fuck all to do with the BBC, what has it got to do with them if I'm watching live or not?

They have, down the years, claimed that they will be paying me a visit on no fewer than 10 separate and specific dates. Not once has anyone ever visited on these dates, and I'm now at the point where the antagonistic part of me is tempted to write to them asserting that if they do this again, I shall be invoicing them for the inconvenience and loss of earnings due to waiting in all day for a visit which never materialises.

I mainly WFH, so it's bullshit, but I'm not going to tell them that.