Ukpc parking fines

lukewalsh010 · 23 January 2012 at 2:05PM

I moved in to an apartment with my girlfriend recently and the car park for our apartment has numbered bays. Each bay has a permit but parking is apparently restricted to one car per bay and as we have two vehicles we have got 3 £90 parking fines in two days. Many of the apartments are empty so there are a lot of spare spaces and we are causing no harm using one extra bay. Do UKPC ltd have the authority to make me pay all these fines? What do i do?

steve1500 · 23 January 2012 at 2:15PM

I got an invoice today & it has gone in the draw to collect dust

Coupon-mad · 23 January 2012 at 2:24PM

lukewalsh010 wrote: »

I moved in to an apartment with my girlfriend recently and the car park for our apartment has numbered bays. Each bay has a permit but parking is apparently restricted to one car per bay and as we have two vehicles we have got 3 £90 parking fines in two days. Many of the apartments are empty so there are a lot of spare spaces and we are causing no harm using one extra bay. Do UKPC ltd have the authority to make me pay all these fines? What do i do?

You just ignore it. Follow the advice on this pepipoo forum thread which is similar to your situation:

http://forums.pepipoo.com/index.php?showtopic=67439

Then come back here and read the sticky threads to watch a Watchdog video about this scam, and to see the letters you will be sent. Ignore them.

This is NOT a fine.

lukewalsh010 · 23 January 2012 at 2:25PM

Can they not force me to pay these fines?

lukewalsh010 · 23 January 2012 at 2:26PM

I'll empty a draw ready for the letters then. Thanks

Coupon-mad · 23 January 2012 at 2:26PM

Read the sticky threads, look at the link to the pepipoo thread, as it has advice I don't have time to type out at work.

Then come back if it's not clear that this is a SCAM and they are NOT fines.

TrickyWicky · 23 January 2012 at 2:27PM

lukewalsh010 wrote: »

Can they not force me to pay these fines?

With a court order yes they could however for one or two tickets they won't bother. That said, the more tickets you collect the more attention you'll get from them increasing the odds of court action. You need to figure out somewhere else to put the other car ASAP before they become a real pain in the grass.

HO87 · 23 January 2012 at 2:30PM

These are not fines. UKPC have absolutely no authority at law to levy any type of penalty. What you have is an invitation to settle an alleged breach of contract. All that they could do is to pursue you for their reasonable losses which in what amounts to a free car park come to precisely zero. At £90 a pop it is clear that the amount demanded is a penalty. Ignore them.

The_Slithy_Tove · 23 January 2012 at 2:51PM

Do the signs in the car park make any threats about clamping? If so, you'd better be careful, as there's a whole world of hurt and aggro if one or other of your cars gets clamped or towed (even if it's done illegally).

lukewalsh010 · 23 January 2012 at 3:03PM

I have been on the phone since i posted this question the 1st time and people have passed the responsibility to others but what I have been told is that a company called bigwood own the car park and have an agreement with UKPC to fine people for not displaying a valid permit and so Bigwood claim that UKPC can and will fine me everytime my vechile is in a bay without a permit and they said I WILL HAVE TO PAY. Shall I still ignore the letters?

vax2002 · 23 January 2012 at 3:10PM

Bigwood will be getting a cut of the Scam money.

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