Parking Eye parking charge notice clarification

jamie220 wrote: »

I have read many of the interesting posts on this site giving advice not to pay private parking charge notices from Parking Eye.

I recently received such a notice from Parking Eye following my over stay at a motorway services carpark.

Enclosed with the notice from Parking Eye was confirmation of a change in the law from 01 Oct 2012 which now means that Car Park Operators may pursue registered vehicle keepers if they do not disclose driver details within 28 days.

Can anyone advise if Parking Eye have correctly interpreted this change in the law and if this has any bearing on whether or not I should ignore this notice? I was both the driver and registered keeper of the vehicle at the time of the over stay.

If you read some other recent threads here you will see that people have posted a pic of that enclosure. It's been referred to the DVLA who do not have a problem with it. I find it a bit misleading but not terrible, there are worse things on these fake tickets and websites!

It has no bearing on whether you should ignore the fake PCN. Here's a summary:

As far as private parking ticket scams are concerned, for a vehicle where you or family are the registered keeper*:

Any fake PCN issued for an incident up until 30th Sept 2012 = IGNORE IT.

Any fake PCN issued for an incident from 1st October 2012 onwards:

- if you were parked in Scotland or NI = IGNORE IT.

- if your 'ticket' is from a firm who are NOT members of the BPA AOS = IGNORE IT.

- if your 'ticket' is from an AOS member and the incident was in England/Wales, there are 2 choices:

a) IGNORE IT, as ever, playing snap with the threatograms that match our sticky thread 'PPC letter chains' (near the top of this parking forum, there's a thread with a link to the archive letters that PPCs have been known to send),

or

b) Appeal it with help from here in how to word it, and insist on a referral to the POPLA appeals service if it's not cancelled. Costs the PPC £32 plus, costs you nothing, it's not binding on you but it is binding on the PPC. IF you do not win your appeal then revert to ignore mode. This option is for those who feel they want to fight back, cost the PPC money and test the POPLA system whilst also getting their PPC's tactics scrutinised; start by reading threads about POPLA.

Finally, if anyone gets any fake PCN anywhere in the UK in a retail, cinema, fast food or Supermarket car park then COMPLAIN IN WRITING to the CEO of the company on site if you were a customer. Do not appeal to them, complain about this protection racket against their paying ex-customers.

HTH





* it would be different for hire/lease/company cars (unless the OP owns the company) as the driver could find the fake PCN paid for them! Here is a thread about what to do for newbies who this applies to.

Ignore or appeal, those are the choices now there is POPLA (Eng/Wales only).

Parking Eye have actually folded when we've seen them made aware that the motorist wants to go to POPLA at £27 plus VAT per fake PCN (to be stumped up by the PPC of course, regardless of outcome, and without the decision even being binding on the driver).

Who are "HPC"? If they are just another private parking company, then yes they can be ignored. As for the BPA, that's just a cosy club for the parking industry, it's not a regulator.