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DCB LEGAL, SMART PARKING, Claim…Defended…N279 soon!
Firstly I apologise for creating a new thread on what is obvious a well discussed thread elsewhere. I have read the newbies thread but just needed a bit more clarity on the situation as the RK has been in contact with Smart Parking. A PCN was received back in 2024 regarding insufficient paid time. The RK appealed stating…
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MANOR PARKING, GLADSTONES court claim 2025
Having read newbies pages, I remain a little confused as to the best defence to a small claims court claim from Gladstones Solicitors on behalf of Manor Parkings PCN regarding Lotties Road Birmingham in 2024. I wrote to Manor parking at the time (copy below) but they ignored my letter. I did later find a scanned copy of my…
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Bridgewater Retail Park - Altrincham
Good morning all, I received a Claim Form and Response Pack dated 6 May 2026 and understood I had 28 days to respond from an assumed receipt date of 5 days after the Issue Date (therefore, a response is required by 8 June 2026). Having been away I was planning to respond this week but received a Judgement, dated 29 May…
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UKPC Parking Charge for Motorcycle
Hi all, first time posting on here. Apologies for the long post, I thought I would explain what happened, what my thought process was and what actions I've taken so far, and also upload photos of the parking area as well as all the letters that I have received to date from UKPC, so you have all the info. Any assistance…
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DCBL Letter
I have a DCBL trying to recover debt for a Euro Car Parks charge from 2022. I was not the driver at the time. Can I still transfer liability now to the driver? It has not got to small claims yet nor have I received a LBA.
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GBP Management PCN Confusing NTK
I received a Notice to Keeper from GBP Management Limited dated 15 April 2026 for an alleged parking event on 16 March 2026. A brief summary of what took place, the driver went to an establishment that allows its visitors to use the car park, but only from 6pm which the driver didn't know at the time, the establishment was…
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Parkingeye Charge Notice DCB Legal defended claim
Hi I'm dealing with another charge from DCBL Legal (dating back to January 2022) - but stupidly (as I was working and trying to complete the Acknowledgement of Claim and Defence at the same time) I failed to make a note of my MCOL customer number. Today I've gone to complete the defence as needs to be done by 11th May and…
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Penalty Notice Received While Practising in Station Car Park
Hi all, I’m a learner driver and have my driving test coming up soon. My instructor suggested practising forward and reverse bay parking, and said a quiet station car park would be ideal. On 1st July around 9:18 pm, my partner (who holds a full licence) drove us to [XXX] Station car park. Once inside, we switched seats,…
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Multiple PCN's from National Parking Control, in a Hire Car
Hi all thanks for the forum and all the advice in the Newbies section. I can see some advice for hire car issues but it talks only of receiving tickets in the window. The tickets I have been sent (4 in total!) have been posted to me, as the car was detected by video camera. It's a car park I've used for years just to buy…
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New Bailiff Case - E.on UK Plc v Safe Hosts Internet LLP
A very recent High Court decision that may be of interest to this forum. BAILII Link: https://www.bailii.org/cgi-bin/format.cgi?doc=/ew/cases/EWHC/KB/2026/1071.html&query=(title:(+E.on+))+AND+(title:(+UK+)) The High Court Enforcement Officer seized goods at the judgment debtor's address, but some of those goods belonged to…
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PCN – - Rental Car - No Permit – Residential Parking Lot
Good Afternoon, Apologies in advance for a longish post. I've received a PCN in connection with a hire car that was parked in a residential parking lot adjacent to a block of flats, one of which I rent and reside in. I have lived here for about 6 years now, spanning 6 rental agreements, and none of them make any reference…
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BW legal Last stage
Hi everyone, I’ve read the MSE parking guidance and a few threads, but I’m still a bit unsure what to do next. I’ve received a Letter of Claim from BW Legal for £170. This happened when the driver was quickly picking up their father, who has a heart condition. It wasn’t a case of parking or using the car park — the car…
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DCB Legal - Preparing Defence
Hi all,I received a Parking Charge Notice from Smart Parking Ltd and decided to go the militant route of ignoring all correspondence (whilst making sure I kept the abundant number of letters as evidence). The PCN was passed on to Debt Recovery Plus Ltd and after I continued to ignore them, they passed it on to CST Law…
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DCB Legal - Defence.
Hey everyone. Firstly thanks again for the newbies sticky thread, it helped me disconinute my last parking charge... unfortunately DCB Legal at it again despite me beating them before... they never learn. I received court letters again for a new parking charge.. Before we get started the MCOL website says: Claim History A…
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Mediation - will DCB legal actually attend?
I received a PCN from UKPC last Sept for not parking within the markings of a bay. I was parked in a disabled bay and slightly over the hatched area. This was because this particular bay only had hatchings to one side of the vehicle and the only way for my passenger to exit the vehicle was if I parked on the hatchings.…
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UKCPS parking charge Leeds train station
I received a notice to keeper (Postal - Non PoFA) for stopping in a disabled bay for roughly around 5 minutes to pick my girlfriend up from Leeds station, I never left the vehicle. I received the original letter back in August so I appealed through ukcps themselves saying I was not the driver of the vehicle and I was not…
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Moorside Legal county court hearing
Hi everyone, I have been lurking on here about a private parking ticket I got back in 2022 from UKCPS for parking in a visitor bay allocated for people in my apartment building. I followed the template defences and it is now at the hearing stage. I currently have one of the template witness statements that needs to be sent…
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Civil Enforcement PCN - Not my car
Hi all, long time user of this forum and regular reader (but not poster or commenter). I've helped many many colleagues, friends, familiy, neighbours and friends of friends with appeals, POPLA, IAS and even County Court. I finally have an unsolicited invoice in my own name!!! Going to have some fun with this. Details are:…
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CARPARKERS PCN NORFOLK X2!
Hi all, received 2 PCN for both of our vehicles due to meeting partner after work at the seaside with our daughter which is so annoying ! I paid for pay and display for both vehicles which makes it worse but apparently overstayed the ticket which I’m unsure whether we did or not to be honest. You guys helped me back in…
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PCN - Total Parking Solutions - Left the site - B&Q Chiswick Hounslow
hi all appreciate any advice PCN received from the B&Q car park as stated. Vehicle did not exceed the 3 hour limit stated on the signage. Ive gone back to site to take clearer images of the enforcement notices - they do state you are not allowed to leave the site, I dont know how they can enforce this legally? Any advice…
