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G24 Parking Charge - Toys R Us, Forbury Retail Park, Reading
Hello, all. I write to get some advice on how to fight the parking charge sent to me after I was stung by the PPC operating at Toys R Us in Reading. I've only recently moved to Reading from Scotland to work on a project (I'm a contractor) and the letter demanding £75 was sent to the RK address in Scotland. I have read the…
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PCN from Smart Parking in free ASDA car park
Hi Everyone. My local free ASDA car park was absolutely rammed the other day so I (stupidly) decided to park in the Parent & Child bay because I was only going to be 5 minutes. They must have been watching me because the ticket is time stamped for 1 minute after I arrived! I have rang ASDA and asked if there is anything…
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TPS Parking Charge, Lincoln County Hospital
Hi, As a staff working at Lincoln County Hospital, I have a parking permit. Unfortunately, that day, the parking permit fell from the dashboard and I promptly received the "windscreen ticket". As I regularly lurk on this website, I reviewed the previous posts and ignored it. I received the NTK document in post. I emailed…
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PCN Luton
Hi, I received a PCN from APCOA at Luton airport. I used your template letter which I found on this site and didn't receive anything back from them for a while. Today I received a letter from Debt Recovery Plus Ltd. asking for £130.00 parking charge. What is your advice please? They didn't give me a POPLA ref number or…
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Weights and Measures
This from Derbyshire CC, I assume that other LAs act in a similar way. We make sure that all weighing and measuring equipment used for trade is accurate. What we do* We inspect all premises which use weighing and measuring equipment. These can range from shop scales to pub spirit measures, and petrol pumps to road and rail…
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Yet another MP "gets it"
http://www.clitheroeadvertiser.co.uk/news/campaigns/mp-steps-into-fight-over-whalley-parking-fines-1-7077650 "It is my intention to table an Early Day Motion on my return to Westminster on how privately run car parks can charge exorbitant fines that are totally out of step with the charges for use." As recently as last…
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Ukpc rejected the standard letter
Hi all, Sent the standard appeal letter from this forum with no amendments and have now received this rejection/reduced fine offer letter. They list a rejection of each point a-e: "Our parking charge sums have been calculated to reflect a genuine pre-estimated losses." B) "the site in question has sufficient signage"…
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Dodgy print on pay and display ticket, PCN issued
I was out last night and parked in a bay at 17:35 that was free after 18:00. I bought a 30 minute ticket from the pay and display machine near the bays and put it in the window of my car. I was quite annoyed when I got back to the car later to find that a PCN had been issued at 17:51 alleging that I had parked in the bay…
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MET parking charge notice
Hello. I have received letter from MET about parking charge for £100. I have parked on Starbucks car park at Stansted airport for 100 minutes as I was waiting for my mum.... It happens when Starbucks was closed at 23.17 and to be honest I thought that I can park over there.... Do you think I have chance to appeal? If so…
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Privately Renting Space but Fined by UKPC
Hi all, I wonder if anyone can advise please. I've been privately renting a parking space around the corner from where I live for 3 months and in the last week I got a fine from UKPC for not displaying a valid permit (even though it was displayed). The person I am renting the space from says that it was because the number…
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CPS ticket - help please!
Got a Combined Parking Solutions ticket :( very angry. Have read through the stickies on the board but tbh it's all fried my brain a bit, plus it seems I can't use the templates etc for CPS? Will be sending a complaint tomorrow to the business who owns the car park but not sure what to do re CPS themseves!? Got the ticket…
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LDK - pay or ignore?
Hi everyone, My dad has received a parking charge notice from LDK Security group after parking at the Lidl car park in Stanmoore. Luckily I was reading up about all these parking charges and as conclusion it seems that I simply need to ignore them. However there have been others that I read about that have heard from the…
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UKPC - Gallagher Retail Park, Dundee
hi, i am looking for advice. I am confused by all the info posted on this topic and wondered if anyone can point me in the right direction. I parked in the UKPC - Gallagher Retail Park in Dundee today for 45 minutes to shop in the sports shop for my sons birthday. I spent £120. I knew the car park was free for 2hours but…
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Parking EYE PCN - St James Retail Northampton
Hello all, Yesterday I received my first PCN from parking eye in regards to overstaying in a '3 hour limit' free car park by approximately 30 minutes. I am currently still in the discount payment time limit for £50 before it goes to £85. I have read the newbies thread and reviewed the appeals which I have found to be very…
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Help with popla letter
Hi, My disabled partner was given a ukpc parking ticket for parking in a disabled bay in a free car park at a shopping center. As she is disabled she does not display the badge on the windscreen as she cannot reach it to remove it once she returns. She displays the badge infront of the dashboard clocks and its never been a…
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Apcoa ticket
Hi All, I have received a 'Parking Contravention Charge Notice' from Apcoa after parking at a train station. I had no change for the machine and was running late for the train, so tried to pay by phone but had no mobile signal. I subsequently forgot until 3pm at which point I dialed the number and paid for the parking.…
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Appeal rejected
Hey all, long time since i have been on the forums and alas its a crappy parking charge i come back to ask advice on! Parked in a TK Maxx car park *i'm in Scotland btw* for 15 mins on double yellows as i had my son with me and I have a Blue Badge and came out of the shop to find a PCN for £90. I was unaware the car-park…
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More BPA Nonsense
The Prankster has blogged about this today: http://parking-prankster.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/ukcpm-issue-invalid-popla-codes.html What has happened is that UKPCM are sending out expired POPLA codes. The response from the BPA: "In essence the operator should have changed the 7th digit of the POPLA code from a 4 to a 5 – the…
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Can Napier Do This?
This has just popped up on the POPLA Decisions thread:- http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.php?p=67600824&postcount=1622 This interesting part is following this POPLA win for the motorist Napier wrote to the keeper thus: The keeper is now banned from using the said carpark on the grounds that the keeper behaved…
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parking bays
Hi, Can anyone tell me, if the lines in a council car park have faded, so much so, that I once parked in the bit you drive down between bays!! that it is still legal for them to issue parking tickets???