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Parking in Tesco
My local Tesco has a sign on the way out stating that "all profits from parking charges are given to the Tesco charity of the year", which on the face of it seems very commendable. However I correctly assumed that whilst Tesco may hand their profits over to charity, the contractor (Euro in this case) doesn't. Tesco said…
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Hypothetical question re. removing a wheel clamp
This is entirely hypothetical but I have often wondered where I would stand in the eyes of the law if I were to put a sign in my car window to the affect of "in clamping this vehicle you consent to all means necessary being used to remove the wheel clamp, including its forced removal ...". The logic - if there is any -…
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Hospital Parking Ticket
After a late running appointment for my young son at the hospital, I got a ticket (despite the consultant saying I had nothing to worry about). The hospital dept wrote an appeal letter which I included with my own. This was October and in November the letter was returned to sender, unopened! I rang the contact number but…
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Had to happen eventually
Finally I got my first Parking Charge Notice. Had to take my 3-yr old for an MRI scan at a nearby hospital and the car park was managed by our old friends Total Parking Solutions. After parking up, the first thing I noticed was that the bays are not big enough to fit my car in (7-seater), so I was expecting a charge for…
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Private parking 'fine' at work, what to do?
Hi there I've just received a parking 'fine' whilst parking at my place of work even though I have a parking permit. My employer uses Town & City to issue parking 'fines' (I understand from other forums that they are not technically fines but invoices?). I have a valid parking permit to park and pay for the priviledge but…
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Never seen the parking ticket
Hi I received a letter through the post from the council stating that I had not paid my parking ticket within the 14 day period. To this I sent an appeal letter to the council stating that I had never received or seen said parking ticket. I sent it to them 1st class in their self addressed envelope. 28 days later I have…
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PCN notice sent to wrong name and address
Hi I have recently received a letter from a collection agency for a Penalty Charge Notice for a motoring offence committed (probably by my daughter) in Sept 2010. I had not received any paper work so wrote to the council to ask them for the original docs. They sent copies by email The car is mine but the name on the docs…
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Parking Enforcement Notice
Hi, I wonder if you could give me some advice. I received a Parking Enforcement Notice from APCOA in October for dropping a friend off at Luton Airport in an area where I should'nt have. The notice was dated late Novemebr and gave me 14 days to halve the initial £80 fine to £40. I did this but last week received a letter…
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Your Thoughts on Claiming Expenses
Hiya, love this site and the forum. I parked in Edinburgh in October and received a fine on the day. The problem was that I had not parked within the bay markings. This is true. I took some pictures and decided to appeal. The appeal was on the grounds that when I parked there had been other vehicles incorrectly parked…
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Fighting contravention 02
Hi guys, Walked out today to find my car was gone. It had been towed because of a parking violation, contravention 02 - waiting, loading or unloading when prohibited. My total fine was £180 which had to be paid to get my car back. £30 for the parking offence and £150 because it was towed. My fault on the bad parking. I…
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Contractual Parking Notice G24
I've just this notice to pay £60. Apparently parking is limited to 2 hours but I was not aware of this. It was during the busy Christmas period so it would have been difficult to read signs whilst negotiating traffic. Also as there was so much traffic queuing to get in and out (where it was gridlocked!) 2 hours seems an…
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Ticket UKPC - Should I ignore?
Hi.. This weekend I parked in a retail car park, which is two hours free parking when a ticket is displayed, which I did, and displayed on my drivers window. When I returned to car there was a ticket from UKPC for 'parked without clearly displaying a valid pay and display ticket'...for £90!! cheeky sods!!! Although the…
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Advice for a PCN please!
Hi all, Today I received a PCN and don't think it's fair and I wanted to ask advice... My wife worked a an office block in Birmingham City centre, in a pedestrian zone. The sign on the road says: "Except taxis and for access to off-street premises at any time and for loading 4 - 11am" I stopped on this road at 16:46 on Dec…
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wrong time on driving offence notice
my bf been served with a notice to say he went through a no entry sign yesterday at exactly 4pm. we have looked at google street view and it appears there is a no entry sign where he went driving yesterday (not noticeable until you actually drive through the area). i found a receipt showing we was shopping at 4.05pm around…
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APCOA Luton Airport
Hi All, Very new to this, but have found the advice on the Luton Airport stuff very reassuring. I have one small problem though: I have received the first letter outlining the offence and now the first letter from Roxburghe, but as it is a company car, all of the correspndence is going to our fleet managers house and while…
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The Word Is Spreading
Below is a link to an article about PPCs from the Winsford Guardian. Apart from two inappropriate uses of the "f" word, I commend the reporter for this piece of journalism, especially her link to this forum :- http://www.winsfordguardian.co.uk/news/9458079.Shoppers_hit_by_parking_fines_encouraged_to_fight_back/
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so angy need to vent
We went to KFC to pick up some food, parked next to some woman who had taken up two spaces with a pile of rubbish the other side meaning we had to park a little over a 2nd space (Wrong I know) comes out and the other person had move but then we spotted some big hefty looking bloke taking pictures of our car using a camera…
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Penalty charges (not car parks)
Was just wondering as I went bowling the other day, and on the lane there was an emergency button with a sign saying that misuse would lead to the termination of your game and a fine of up to £1000. Is this inlawful, given the whole premise of companies "fining" individuals. It also got me to thinking of the emergency…
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Small Claims Gaff
Hi all, Posted this in the wrong forum and have moved it over so apologies for the double post. I'm looking for some advice on a small claim. I issued a claim against a clamping company last month and today is the 14th day. When I made the claim, I undertook to send detailed particulars to the defendant, who still hasn't…
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NCP Parking fines - X4!
Hi all, I have 4 parking fines from various dates from parking in Leagrave Train station car park (Luton). Foolishly I didnt buy a ticket as had to run to catch train each time... Had a letter throgh from ICC Legal Services demaning £100 for one nd no doubt more will come through. Should I pay due to the amount x4 will be…
