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Moorside Legal
We received 3 PCN’s in a week from a car park in Cornwall in August 2020. We decided to ignore all letters after reading advice on this site. We now have a letter from Moorside Legal and I am worried now that they will take us to court. We have changed address in this time and they have tracked us down. I have no idea what…
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PCN into CCJ - all correspondence to old address.
Hi all, unsure what to do with the following situation. I lived in a flat with a management company looking after the car park. I twice got fined for parking in my own spot but not displaying the pass (spaces were numbered for flats but still had to display a pass). The management company have been useless and refusing to…
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Claim Notice Received DCB L/Parkmaven Ltd
Hi All, I’m hoping someone can help me with preparing a defence for a County Court Claim Form I've recently received from HMCTS regarding a parking charge. I've received the below and gone through the 8 steps so I think I have an idea of what I need to do but just need to make sure I'm doing this right. I have received an…
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Parking ticket issued by Smart Parking scum bags
I got a ticket from these underhand idiots who are BPA members: Smart Parking Ltd www.smartparking.com I'll post my appeal to them and then secondly include an update of what happened (or lack of) more recently: APPEAL I have received your letter regarding my parking in the mail on the 4th of August. You record that,…
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Judgement for Claimant in default, even though I replied to the Claim form on time
Hi all I received a claim form a couple of months back, I tried to login to moneyclaim.gov.uk with the details on the letter, but I wasn't able to log in through the portal with the Claim No and password provided in Claims form, because I wanted to do acknowledgment of service. I called the CNBC number and they told me to…
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APCOA Parking Charge
Hi all, New here and looking for advice. The company I work for have received the attached (redacted) notice. I was the driver at the time. I managed to stop them just in time so nothing has been paid, and they haven't contacted anyone to advise who the driver was at the time. As you will see from the notice, I believe I…
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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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Park watch / Debt Recovery Plus / bw legal
Hi, first time user after advice. Followed 'ignore' advice (although missed Letter of Claim opportunity) on here and the registered keeper submitted Acknowledgement of Service on MCOL today. Putting together the defence utilising the template available. Are the following points relevant in any way? When the initial NTK…
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SMART PARKING, DCB LEGAL court claim
Hi all, Hello all, I finally received court claim from DCB Legal for insufficient Time paid. I requested more information few months ago (following direction from the forum), they sent a whole lot of gabbage plus a photo of my car at the said car park with a time stamp. Nothing about how much I paid at the time or how long…
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Claim by Gladstone Solicitors/Parking Solutions 24 Ltd - (advice appreciated)
Good morning! I hope everyone is well and thank you for responses in advance. Key facts Claim form Issue date - 11th Feb 2026 We need to acknowledge Service by the 2nd March 2026 Write up a defence by the 16th March 2026 Claim form (redacted) attached I've been reading the threads for a few weeks now in anticipation of the…
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UKPC , DCB LEGAL court claim
Hi Forum, I'm back again with another PCN—this time for parking slightly outside a white line. I've already submitted the standard template appeal to UKPC, which was unsurprisingly rejected. They've now issued me a POPLA code. Would it be worth proceeding with an appeal to POPLA? If so, is there an up-to-date template I…
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Stansted mcdonalds county court
I was the registered keeper of a car that recieved a penalty for this car park however i wasn't the driver. My daughter was driving and had parked at the medium stay car park across this site. As she left the medium stay car park the car started shaking and so she pulled off the roundabout to the mcdonalds car park. Here…
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Advice before court and submitting N180 form
Hi, So this is the latest email from DCBL below: Good Afternoon Having reviewed the content of your defence, we write to inform you that our client intends to proceed with the claim. In due course, the Court will direct both parties to each file a directions questionnaire. In preparation for that, please find attached a…
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Airport parking debt recovery letter
I have received a letter from a company called 'Debt Recovery plus' relating to 'Use of a pick up/drop off zone without making a valid payment' at Manchester airport on 16/01/2026. The letter which I received on 11/03/2026 is asking me to pay £170 by 13/03/2026 or my financial loss will increase significantly. for clarity…
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DCB legal - letter of claim
First post so apologise in advance if this has been answered numerous times! I have read all the threads etc with regards to these fines. I have just received the avove from DCB Legal representing Parkmaven Ltd with regards to 3 parking fines for being over the 2 hour stay. All 3 fines combined would be less than an hour…
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Letter arrived after 14 days - how to prove?
After 36 years of driving I have received my first ever parking ticket. Without going in to the details of the incident itself (many aspects of which I am fuming about - suffice to say I believe I have been conned) I have a specific question. My understanding is that since the letter mentions the Protection of Freedoms…
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Informing of address change (or not)
A new thread as this is a general question. Question: Will informing the PCN/solicitors of an address change trigger them to wake up and pick up the case? The background - my PCN was issued in mid 2022, so it's been around 4 years so far, with 2 more years to go before the 6 year time-out. In November 2023 I had a Letter…
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Failed appeal to Premier Parking Solutions Parking Charge
Hi, I am new to these forums, but after reading a link, I decided to appeal a private parking charge notice I received from PPS (Premier Parking Solutions). I have appealed directly to PPS and IAS and both have confirmed the original ruling stands. So I am assuming I still have to pay. To give an overview of the situation:…
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Back again to win again. Need some advice. Thanks.
I'm back again for a second time. First time they pulled out last minute before court date. A win! Thanks again for all the help from this forum. Re this new one, I've acknowledged on MCOL so I have a little time to get my defence in order. Just want to check a couple of things. It's Gladstones (representing for Horizon…
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Civil Enforcement Witness Statement
Hi all, I received a PCN from CE for what we think was a major keying error. The initial notice was received after the 14 day statutory period, we appealed, and were unsuccessful but then could not do an additional keying error appeal. I found this forum after submitting my defence which was regrettable, but I have been…
