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Merged: LBC received – disabled bay PCNs (genuine wheelchair user, Equality Act?)
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DCB Legal LTD for Smart Parking Limited - Court Claim Form
I have received a court claim form/pack today for charges issued back in 2020. On two occasions I parked in a small car park and made a major keying error. Probably not thinking quite right due to family events I keyed in the first letter of my numberplate, hit the second key that must have been a bit stuck and required…
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Patcham High School / Community Centre - One Parking Solution
Hello, having posted in this discussion, it was suggested I started a new thread, so here goes. My initial post was as follows: hello, don't know if this is the best possible place to raise this or whether to start it's own thread, my car was ticketed in the same location and same circumstances. I did not pay the charge…
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BW Legal LoC - Permit Holders Carpark
Hi guys, I've just got home from some time working away to see that I have a LoC from BW Legal on behalf of Armtrac SS, the 30 day window to respond expired 2 days ago which I missed. The charge applies to my vehicle being parked with no permit in a permit holders only 'carpark' belonging to Harbour Hotel, St Ives which…
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All Parking Svs UK - zzps- Popla??
Hi allHaving scanned what seems like a thousand threads, I'm finding my particular issues haven't been covered before .....so apologies up front if its been covered before & I've missed it/them. I got an NTK/PCN by post for a residents carpark, for non display of permit. Issue 1) valid permit was on display, but had slid…
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Parking in Disabled - Mcdonalds
Hi, I have received a notice to keeper from MET Parking services for parking in a disabled parking space at Mcdonalds. The driver at the time was told to park up and wait for their food. The car park was busy and the waiting bays were taken up. The driver parked in the free space which happened to be a disabled parking…
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ParkingEye sent Letter Before County Court Claim - but we never saw their rejection of our appeal?
the letter says "When Parkingeye rejected your appeal, you were provided with 28 days to lodge a further appeal with POPLA..." etc. But we never received any such rejection. What's the advice in this situation? Many thanks
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Horizon Parking Charge Tesco Overstay
Evening all, I have today received a parking charge for a roughly 30 minute overstay at Tesco on the 28th November. The parking charge issue date is the 8th December. Today I have received the letter and charge, dated the 8th December, which seems a bit sus, a seven day delivery time? I have read the newbie thread and my…
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DVLA complaints about PPCs abysmally low. Why?
I recently submitted a Freedom of Information (FoI) request to the DVLA to find out how many complaints they’ve received about private parking companies—particularly those we frequently see breaching the PPSCoP and PoFA. It’s often said that the DVLA won’t “bite the hand that feeds it”, and we regularly hear complaints…
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Letter of Claims from DCB Legal on behalf of Smart Parking - Please check my response
Hi All, Firstly Thank you all for the amazing posts on here with regards to PCNs!! I have read them and have been so helpful. I have recently been receiving letters from DCB Legal, which I have ignored until now I got a letter of claims. And I know I now need to response but to their email and not through their form. In my…
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Getting Defence Ready
Hey there! So I'm currently in the process of writing up my defence and was wondering if there are any other points or previous cases to point towards that will further aid my support. Apologies in advance for the long read but I have been reading through numerous threads and pages the last few months to be better equipped…
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Manchester Airport T1 drop off fine
Just received one of these through the post from APCOA after dropping our son off who was moving to Australia and we were understandably distressed and must have missed the signs and there was no toll in use like we have used at Liverpool before. Anyway I’ve seen there are a million and one of these posts on here but our…
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Second letter of claim from BW Lega!?
Hi all Have got a second letter of claim from BW legal and have until 25th July 2025 to reply. The first letter I received in January 2023 and I replied with a SAR request which they supplied. I paid for parking at a water park but made a major keying error and entered a different vehicle reg. I originally asked…
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PCN RECIEVED
Hi All been a few years since I needed your advice. Seems I overstayed on 10/11/2025 and a PCN was issued on 12/12/2025 and arrived today. Not sure of the rules currently, there is no detail of the offence and doesn't it have to be issued Sooner? Sorry if this info is already posted multiple times - I did look for an…
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Defence help?
Following from the ‘Claim Form’ Particulars of Claim The driver of motor vehicle registration [REDACTED] (the Vehicle) parked in breach of the prominently displayed terms and conditions of parking set out on the signage at [REDACTED LOCATION / BUSINESS NAME] on [REDACTED DATE]. The signage constituted an offer of a…
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Civil Enforcement PCN — please help
Awful mood. First and now ONLY time visiting this health centre. No warning from the private physio based there that car reg needed to be entered at reception machine. I have no words How do I go about disputing this? Determined to get it cancelled
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DCB Legal Claim form received: Issue Date 27 Feb 2025
Hi There I have returned from business travel. In my post is a claim from DCB Legal with an issue date of 27 Feb. This evening I've been fumbling around attempting to submit my acknowledgment of service online, however my Government Gateway details aren't at hand and in my attempts to reset them online, i received the…
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received parking charge for overstay free time B&M
I am being chased to pay an unpaid parking fine from dcbl on behalf of Smart Paking, the contradiction was 06/09/202, I only received the first correspondence in June 2025, I ignored the first two letters as I thought it was spam mail.I know they should send contravention within 14 days. They have threatened me with small…
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Parkingeye
Summary: I visited the site twice (as a legitimate guest) and didn’t sign in at the machine where I was supposed to enter my reg (it was all very complex, the barrier boom arm was broken, the security guard was wearing his house robe, the phone number for the company was and still is a dudd number). When the PCN arrived, I…
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Camden PCN EV charging
Camden PCN – EV charging bay – worth fighting? Got a PCN from Camden for being in an EV charging bay “without charging”. I parked there specifically to charge using the TotalEnergies app. Plugged in, payment went through, and the charger showed a moving green light, which I reasonably believed meant charging had started…
