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Black&White Case of Fraud?
Hello! I've had a skim through the stickys but couldn't find the advice i was looking for. I was "issued" an "invoice" by UKPC on Sunday claiming I was parked for over 2 hours in a free retail car park, I checked their website to see their photo evidence. They have photos of my car watermarked at 2:06pm and 4:18pm. The…
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Smart Parking - but I didn't park smartly - to pay or not to pay?
Hi there! I've read with interest a lot of the previous posts about Smart Parking / Asda parking problems. Well, i have a similar situation and wondered if anyone might be able to offer any advice please? I wasn't someone that had overstayed a free parking limit - i was on Asda property but parked in a no parking area (it…
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APCOA can do it!
I'm back from a trip to Germany and at Tegel Airport in Berlin, my jaw hit the floor at the site of a goodly number of blue-jacketed APCOA staff actually marshalling/managing the rather congested parking, hectic access roads and taxi ranks there. So why do they seem completely unable to do the same in the UK - especially…
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No response to appeals now being charged
When we received a PCN from PCM Ltd we immediately appealed. We had no response and got a demand letter which we appealed again, both by email and recorded letter. Still no response or acknowledgement of any kind. Now being sent a letter from Debt Recovery Plus. Tried to appeal through IPC but as they have no doubt marked…
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Should we advise people to appeal to the IAS?
As title. There seems to be two schools of thought on this. If people could vote and then give their reasons in the thread it may give us some sort of reference point.
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Should I go down the IAS appeal process? Advice needed.
Hello. I received a PCN from Excel Parking in July of this year. They said I hadn't paid their fee to use the car park. I did pay the fee, however I inadvertently entered my last cars registration number into their machine. I sent them a copy of the ticket I paid for, explaining that this had been my mistake, but I had…
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terms and conditions
HI, It may be a stupid question and i'm sure there's a logical answer but, If i, like a private parking firm, wrote some terms and conditions in smaller print on a letter to the company. For example, saying "by communicating with me you agree to cover the administrative costs of my further communication at £10 per letter…
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PCN with incorrect car park name/address
Hello everyone, newbie here I've probably done my usual trick of acting hastily but didn't come across this forum until today. I've read all the does & don't for newbies & taken on board what I should have done but it's a bit late as I've already appealed so just asking for thoughts really I dumped my car straddling the…
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Wrong vehicle make on my ticket
I received a ticket at Aylesbury Shopping Park, but the vehicle make is listed on the ticket wrongly. Also someone else was driving my car, and told me about the ticket. How do I proceed to avoid paying? Do I respond now to UKPC that the ticket is wrong, or wait for the notice to registered keeper?
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Wrong address new build
Hi all I just received my NTK, from UKPC for parking in the side road instead of a designated space on a new build development. The address is incorrect. Should I just email them through their website with a simple one-liner, ( I was not parked outside this building at the time stated) or should I send in a template letter…
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Really confused PCN received. Help please!
Hi, Sorry if I'm not doing the right thing by posting by am a bit overwhelmed by all the information and don't know what to do. Have read the noob guide, but my situation is a little different to the examples given. I was visiting an industrial estate (Calder Park, Wakefield) for work on the 03/08/15 and was about 30…
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Asda/Smart Parking POPLA draft.
Hi guys I'm new to this forum and the world of parking tickets so please go easy on me. Having just read the newbie post I now realise I've dropped myself in the proverbial! I recieved a "fine" from smart parking, for not displaying a ticket, in an Asda car park on 27th June. I complained to the Asda store via email later…
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Contravention 62 Hillingdon Council
Hi members, need assistance as I have got a PCN contravention 62 for "Parked with one or more wheels on over a footpath " The car was half in the driveway and half outside as there is construction work going on in the house and there was some old wooden flooring on the drive waiting to be collected by the builder. Hence…
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Premier parking unfair charge
I had an appointment and they said that there was parking on site, so as soon as i parked the car, went indoors and straight upto reception where they told me i had to register the number plate on the system. Few days later, i received a PCN letter for unauthorised entering and parking of the private car-park. Sent email,…
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Multiple UKPC charges, too late for POPLA appeal?
Hope someone can give a bit of advice. I've trawled through for 3 days til the words are just going over my head. Sorry. I've appealed a UKPC charge before with the help of the Newbies thread and other appeals posted, and won at 1st appeal. But now my daughter has 5 more of the darn things! To be brief, it's a residential…
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Some PCSO's wrongly issuing parking tickets.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-34014848 Ooops!
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Small claims solicitor letter in Northern Ireland
Need some advise, Got a ukpc ticket a year ago in NI (and living in NI) and followed the advice of ignoring everything from ukpc, debt recovery, zenith etc. but now a year on a mysterious small claims solicitor letter arrived. Question is ignore again or is this actually heading for proper legal action?
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Serious help needed with Private PCN
Last Sunday and two friends parked in a private area along with other cars that were already there. They popped upstairs briefly for five minutes when a friend called to come quickly as a parking officer was taking pics of our vehicles they rushed down and spoke to the officer who specifically told us that they "would not…
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5 UKPC parking tickets on my motorbike outside my house up on the curb
Hi all, I have what I think is a new situation to this forum... A bit of background; I am renting a "duplex" as they call it. I live in the top two floors of a 3 floor building. There are loads of similar "duplexes" beside each other which have a shared and privately owned (electric gates and all) carpark. The carpark is…
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Parking Ticket from CP Plus
Hoping you can help me! My car was parked in a railway station car park last week (owned by CP Plus) whilst the driver was at a nearby Army base. The driver paid a sufficient amount for parking as the car was going to be there overnight, and when the driver returned to the car the next day the car had received a ticket.…
