Parking tickets, fines & parking

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This was a thread to discuss these questions: https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/private-parking-code-of-practice Let's see what the MHCLG do next.

Shockingly noticed CCJ £233 on credit karma. Called Court-CNBC , they emailed PoC. It's PCN from private car park sent to my previous address. No replies to PCN, so CP Plus Ltd passed it to Direct Collection Bailiffs Ltd to chase. Date of parking 03/07/25. I sold the car 20/09/25. My new car registered to address I moved…

Hi all, My flat (which I purchased several years ago) has designated parking spaced for each flat in the building. On my lease, it clearly states the parking bay assigned to me as part of the purchase. The parking entrance originally had a barrier which was promptly broken. After months of no action, the building…

Hey guys, Apologies if this is somewhere in the NEWBIES thread but I have received 3x parking fines from UKCPS but to my leased/hire car. I have strong grounds to appeal given I've parked there for 8+ months and they recently (apparently) changed/made stricter their restrictions. Also the signage is just confusing. Plus, I…

Unpaid parking "fine" and now I have a second letter in one month from HM Courts & Tribunal Services. Moorside Legal are the ones taking me to court, I parked at Beam Park Rainham for maximum 20min and received a fine, i have parked there many times when i went to visit my friend. Many times he has done my parking via his…

Hi all, I'm looking for some guidance as I deal with my first ever Letter of Claim (from BW legal on behalf of Premier Park) - £170. The alleged contravention is “Not Parked Wholly Within Bay.” It’s been over a year since the supposed incident and there is no photographic evidence included with their letter. At what stage…

Hi all, I have just been informed by the person who now lives in my old house im on my final notice from DRP. Standard £170 (WhatApp picture) I read the NEWBIE section and on #4 It mentions about the updating the address if they have my new & old address. Whats the advice if they are still sending it to the old address…

Daughter's car was parked at Tesco Springfield Road, Chelmsford. Her V5 has not been updated since she moved house about 18 months ago. I have advised her to submit form V62. She now has a letter from DCBL on behalf of Horizon Parking asking for an unpaid parking charge of £125. Date of contravention is 05/07/2026. Reason…

Was advised to make a new thread, I've done the AOS and I thought cos the date served was 30/06 then 28/07 was the last day for defence. I've edited the template, para 3 is below and the claim form The Claimant’s Particulars of Claim fail to comply with CPR 16.4(1)(e) and Practice Direction 16.7.5, as no conduct amounting…

Hi all It's been a while. I would appreciate advice on six Parking Charge Notices from Euro Car Parks (ECP) relating to the Morrisons Sheldon car park in Birmingham, which is also used by The Gym Group. I am the registered keeper of the vehicle. I have not appealed any of the notices yet and want to make sure I handle them…

hi, I was wondering if I could get some help with this please, as I'm not sure if an appeal is possible. The driver took me to hospital due to an emergency and even though there were people without disabled badges in disabled bays, it wasn't possible to get anyone to move. I'd collapsed once and then did again in the…

I have already contacted NRW (site owner) to request they cancel this. But thought I would open a thread for progress for others to see how it goes… Carpark has 30 minutes free. We were not parked for longer than 30 minutes. The ANPR cameras are at a road entrance to the forest… it takes 7 minutes according to Google to…

Hello all. This is my first time using this website, and with a little bit of experience from FTLA.UK, I implore your guys' help in order to give myself the best possible chance at beating this claim from UKPC/DCBL. The reason why I have posted so late is because I was on holiday, and I had erroneously calculated the…

Hi Everyone I would appreciate some advice regarding a parking fine from Europarks in Bolton. The alleged offence was February 2025 and I have had a Final reminder on 16th Jan and a letter of claim sent 22nd Jan this year. The parking amchine wqas very unclear and I thought I had paid, this appeal got rejected. It seems…

Evening everyone. Before I start I just want to say a huge thank you for all the resources on this forum. I've used them many times and have occasionally succeeded at landowner cancellations, appeals or POPLAs and successfully ignored the other recovery letters. After 10 years of motoring and fighting unfair tickets with…

Hi, I am dealing with this for my son. He recently got a ticket for pulling into a car park entrance and stopping. The car park was closed and had been for a few hours. He was stationary for just over 3 minutes while deciding where else he could try to park nearby. The ticket says parking on double yellow lines ( they are…

Hi everyone, would I be able to get some advice regarding these tickets from Horizon Parking please? Any time either myself or a support worker has tried to appeal, they immediately state that nothing was scanned therefore the parking ticket will be issued. Previously, tesco cancelled a number of tickets as I provided…

Hi there I would like some advice on what to do if anyone can help me. I’ve read the newbies page and a few other topics on this but can’t find my answer( so apologies if this new post is a somewhat duplicate. I’ve had a letter of claim from Moorside Legal. I haven’t a clue where it’s from or from when but they are asking…

To save adding to a post about something else it might be worth having a seperate thread for parking stories in the media Kicking it off is this on the BBC news site "Drivers fined as Durham car park camera 'misses them leaving' yep, its the good old double dip again, full story on the BBC here…

Hi everyone, I'm defending a small claim from SIP Parking concerning an incident over three years ago. My court hearing is coming up soon. SIP's evidence shows that I paid for 4 hours via PayByPhone(￡3.5) but left approximately 24 minutes after the paid period expired. They calculate the parking time by entry and exit time…