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Template defence to adapt for all parking cases with added 'admin/DRA' costs - edited in 2025
PLEASE READ THIS POST FIRST TO UNDERSTAND HOW TO USE SOME OR ALL OF THIS SUGGESTED TEMPLATE AS PART OF YOUR INDIVIDUAL DEFENCE, THAT YOU CAN THEN DRAFT. YOUR FINAL DEFENCE THAT YOU DECIDE TO DRAFT IS YOUR OWN. NOTHING ON THIS BOARD IS LEGAL ADVICE, JUST OPINIONS BASED ON EXPERIENCE OF WINNING DEFENCES. THE MAIN INFO ABOUT…
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POPLA Decisions
MSE Note: Hi! Please don't post any private details (yours or other peoples) on the forum for privacy reasons. Thanks! MSE Official Insert: Read our MoneySaving UK Travel & Transport guides to save more including Fight Private Parking Tickets and Parking Ticket Appeals. Back to Aaron Aadvark's original post.... This thread…
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**NEWBIES!! PRIVATE PARKING TICKET? OLD OR NEW? **READ THESE FAQS FIRST!** Thankyou!
:) WELCOME! :) HOW TO BEAT A PRIVATE PCN: BY APPEAL, COMPLAINT, OR DEFENCE. BEFORE YOU USE THE FORUM, IF YOU ARE NOT SURE HOW TO USE IT, CLICK HERE Forum Introduction Guide DO NOT USE YOUR REAL NAME AS YOUR USERNAME IF YOU POST A THREAD: https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5532696 FAQS FIRST. NO THREAD IS…
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MSE Parking Ticket Appeals Guide feedback
Hi all, We noticed that a recent thread we started about MoneySavingExpert's Parking Ticket Appeals Guide prompted a response from a number of users. Thank you for all the feedback. MSE's guides are based on detailed journalistic research and analysis rather than tailored advice aimed at individuals. These guides are…
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"A safe and friendly community"
Hi all, Unfortunately it's come to the team's attention that there's been an uptick in needlessly confrontational and provocative posting on the board recently. I'm not going to retread all the ground covered in a previous thread, but the conduct we've been seeing warrants a new intervention. Firstly, MSE's ethos is…
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Unfriendly behaviour on the board
Hi everyone, It's come to our attention that there have been more and more instances of uncivil behaviour here on the parking board, and I'd like to address the situation directly. Firstly, we'd like to express how much we value the insight and support that our very knowledgeable Forumites can offer. This is the very heart…
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Posting on the Parking Board – your help please
MSE Update November 2017 Hi everyone Please could all forumites using this board re-read our original post below. Thank you! ---- Please read our Don't Pay Unfair Parking Tickets News story for MSE's stance. Hi everyone, As you’ll be aware this board was set up for users to find factual information about parking tickets…
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The Parking Tickets Board Sticky
WELCOME [Useful Links & General Info] **NEWBIES!! PRIVATE PARKING TICKET? OLD OR NEW? **READ THESE FAQS FIRST!** Thankyou! Parking board feedback POPLA Decisions IAS Decisions (IAS = Independent Appeals Service) BPA Code of Practice - latest version Parking - Letter Before County Court Claim (LBCCC) - Fight back! Guidance…
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REVIVING THE PRIVATE PARKING BILL
Progress by DLUHC on the Private Parking Code of Practice has been abysmal and is now at a complete standstill until after the General Election. BPA & IPC continue to thwart the will of Parliament, most recently by publishing their homebrew Code which ignores all of the main "teeth" that the 'proper' Code should contain.…
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£170 fine for 6-minute overstay at Euro Car Park Worcester – Blue Badge holder, advice please
Hi all, I need some advice after getting a really harsh parking charge. Back in July 2024, I parked at the Euro Car Park in Worcester and apparently overstayed by just six minutes. I now have a £170 demand hanging over me. I’m a Blue Badge holder and explained this to the debt collection agency chasing me (DCBL). The call…
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Euro Parking Service PCN for parking at SA Carpet and Flooring
Location: SA Carpet and Flooring, 78 Oldbury Road, B65 0JS Date/Time: 09/09/25 @ 4.54PM Duration: 2min 25sec. Date of Issue of Notice: 12/09/25 (received through post on 19/09/25) I have read the newbie thread and a few others, just need some advice before copying text to the appeals portal. My son got a Parking Charge…
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Please check and advise Defence form
Hi, could you please look over my response and give any advice? Thank you Issue Date was 29 Oct and AOS was sent 8 Nov. The facts known to the Defendant: 2. The facts in this defence come from the Defendant's own knowledge and honest belief. Conversely, the Claimant sets out a cut-and-paste incoherent and sparse statement…
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PCN escalated to debt collector– never got original notice, what next?
I recently received my first letter from debt collectors about a Britannia Parking “contravention” at Broadway Plaza Birmingham in July 2025, asking for £170. I never got the original PCN because it was sent to my old address (I’d updated my licence but not my logbook at the time). The allegation is that my car was parked…
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Overstay Birmingham Airport Drop-off Zone
Hi all, I recently received a Parking Charge to Keeper from NCP regarding a 3-minute overstay in Birmingham Airport's drop-off zone (due to queuing for over 5 minutes to leave the car park). Due to the new system, there is no way of knowing you overstayed unless you check the website - given that I was back in my car…
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Parking stories in the News/media
To save adding to a post about something else it might be worth having a seperate thread for parking stories in the media Kicking it off is this on the BBC news site "Drivers fined as Durham car park camera 'misses them leaving' yep, its the good old double dip again, full story on the BBC here…
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UKPA - Moorside legal - Money claim online
Hi everyone. Worked on a building site in metoer retail park, derby, last year. single road going through with an entrance/exit each end and main car park to the left, building site fenced off to the public and no parking signage put up within the confines of the building site. ANPR on entry and exit of the road, not the…
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PCNs keep coming after we paid for the vehicle release
hi all, Completely new here and desperate for help/advice about PCNs we keep receiving from Islington Council Parking and how to deal with it. Basically, it i to do with my (now) wife's Vespa motorbike that was parked on the usual Resident/Pay and Display motorbike parking bay in our local street. The council sent an email…
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Group thread: Heathrow Gatwick Manchester & other Airport drop-off PCNs - easy: how to appeal & win
DO NOT PAY ANY OF THE PARKING COMPANIES ISSUING DROP-OFF PCNs. Advice will change as & when the Government introduce the new statutory Code of Practice and new Appeals Service. And when the companies concerned finally learn (after statutory regulation forces them) how to treat consumers fairly and put up clear signs.…
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I Park Services
Hi guys, My brother received a PCN for parking without a valid ticket. He genuinely bought a ticket from the pay machine but still received this PCN due to ANPR. Naturally he didn’t retain his ticket after parking. He sent off the newbies template and they responded saying his registration number was not recorded on the…
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C.U.P Parking Enforcement charge. Is it worth appealing?
Good afternoon, Sorry, this is my first post, so I hope it's allowed and in the correct section. I'm hoping someone would be able to help. I have received this parking charge notice in the post. Is it worth appealing? The driver wasn't parked, as you can see the lights are on and hazard lights are on. It's a layby towards…
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Slightly confused by these threads about penalty notices.
Please don't get me wrong, I am fully behind the advice given on these threads and find the whole site really useful. But I'm slightly confused by all the 'don't pay it'. 'get it cancelled', 'ignore it' replies when it comes to parking tickets. If every ticket can be fought and not paid then what is the point of them in…
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VCS parking charge at Bristol Airport received
I have been given a parking charge of £170 (with no chance to appeal because for some reason, the original charge went to my old address) so this is now too late in the day to appeal according to the debt collector. I have read though that VCS can't enforce these charges because they can't hold a registered keeper liable…
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Help with PCN after reading Newbies threads
This discussion was created from comments split from: C.U.P Parking Enforcement charge. Is it worth appealing?.
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Biting back with a vengeance
I've won several PCN appeal lately, mostly ia POPLA and am now taking on another. I can easily appeal this one based on other things such as the issuer already has details of my blue badge, as confirmed by a previous successfully appealed case. However I'm going at this one from a novel standpoint where I am going to use…
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UKCPS No Stopping Charge- Leeds Train Station
Hi, Newb here after some advise. Got a ticket from UKCPS for stopping outside Leeds train station and just wondering what the next steps for me would be? Images and personal info are blurred out. Andy help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Andy.
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APCOA PCN Manchester Airport Drop-off
Hi Guys, I recently received a PCN notice from APCOA about a drop-off at Manchester Airport. I know you can usually ignore APCOA, but I don't want it to escalate into a CCJ and affect my credit score. I've also been advised to appeal to APCOA, not admitting to who the driver was, and also asking them to provide the…
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DCB Legal VCS claim
Forumites How do you approach the landowner if there is no information who the landowner is and when you approach the retailers they don't know either.? Apart from the contract signage there is no other signage pertaining to who owns the land.
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SUCCESS! BW Legal for PPM
I've read the very helpful pinned NEWBIE thread and template defence, as well as several of the county court judgements that are relevant to the case and still have a few questions about responding to the BW Legal letter of claim that I, as the registered keeper, received recently. Hopefully the forum members can help with…
