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UKPC POPLA Appeal- Registered Users Only
Hi All I've got a couple of days left to file my POPLA against UKPC for a PCN my dad received for parking in a 'registered users only' car park. He last used it in 2023 prior to UKPC taking over so was unaware of the restrictions. My draft POPLA is below- I'd welcome any comments or recommendations. I haven't mentioned it…
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DCBL notice of debt recovery letter
Just received a letter in the post about a notice of debt recovery from a parking charge in 2023! It says it cannot be appealed and ‘must’ be paid within 14 days.. do I wait for another letter to come through? Thanks!
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DCB Legal Smart Parking Claim Tower Road, Newquay. Defended and discontinued
Hello all Thanks to the advice on the forum I made a successful POPLA appeal against a Smart Parking NTK in 2021. Unfortunately friends who were with us had moved house and missed the deadline for the appeal. They notified Smart Parking of the change of address. This arrived the other day. The MCOL website would not…
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DCB LEGAL, SMART PARKING COURT CLAIM
As the title suggests, DCB Legal have been in touch regarding parking tickets from 2021/22, these pertain to parking in a gym car park operated by SMART parking. I was authorised to use the parking space as a member of the gym, but must have forgot a couple of times to input my vehicle registration details onto their…
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NCP parking Charge
Morning I received a parking charge to keeper from NCP. The date of incident 20.5.26, date sending letter 30.6.26, letter received in post 7.7.26. Not sure who was driving, as incident going back to May, also we received notice 7 weeks after the incident.
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Trouble with Bank Park
Hi All, I'm a newbie here. Living in South West London. Thanks for having me. I've recently had Parking Charge Notice from a pribate company called Bank Park, who operate in this area. I was wondering if anyone had any advice on how best to deal with. Apparently I parked my car , just outside the lines of a parking space…
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Napier Parking - reminder letter £170 - ignore?
Have read the newbies thread and wanted to check I'm doing the right thing. I had to tell Napier I was the driver as my husband was being chased as Keeper and didn't like it. Situation is this: we pulled into the car park on Church Hill in Northfield, which I thought was still council-owned and used to be free after 6 pm.…
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CEL 2026 Defence Query
Morning all. I received a claim form dated 26th May and have completed the AOS (yesterday), now working on the defence. I've read through all the advice on here and have copied the template defence, adding in the suggested wording for Chan & Akande etc at paragraph 3, since it is the usual CEL POC. I've also added in…
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Dart Charge - Enforcement
Hello, I am writing this on behalf of someone else. The individual in question used the Dartford crossing in February of this year and wasn't aware of the requirement to pay. Yesterday, they had a visit from an enforcement officer demanding payment. Some context - both they and their daughter are disabled, suffering from…
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CEL Private Parking CCJ Claim — Poor Signage Defence — Help Needed
Hi All, concerned newbie here desperately looking for advice on how to move forwards with County Court Claim from Civil Enforcement Ltd. Incident occurred last year on January 30th at the Bellevue car park (237-259 Greenwich High rd, SE10 8NB) in front of ALDI and many other small shops. CEL refused my challenge on grounds…
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Alliance parking
Hello, I received a Notice from Alliance Parking for 10 mins staying on the Pottery street Swansea without any marks, not on the parking bays. I was trying to find a relative business to appeal, but unsuccessful. Only one mark I found on the street, the photo attached above. It mentioned that road is Private, but no names…
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DCB Legal #Discontinuance
ECP and DCB Legal, received the notice a week before they had to pay the court fee. Thank you newbies thread! @Umkomaas
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Saba Parking Charge Notice: Appealed
I appealed a PCN in a Saba station car park citing POFA schedule 4 didn’t apply on railway land and stating that I wouldn’t be naming the driver and to cancel or issue a POPLA code. What I didn’t know about was an amendment to the Act that allows keeper liability on land previously under statutory control came into force…
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UKPC Parking Fine - Cambridge 2026
Hi all, Created an account to post this question as I'm unsure about what to do - I did read the newbies thread and used the template email from it, but my particular situation is not covered (parking on a PRIVATE ROAD as opposed to a CAR PARK) and thus I feel it may be different. I received one of these invoices from…
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Apcoa Farnborough Main station
Hi all First time posting on here and keen for some advice please. I received a ticket from APCOA for failing to park in a marked bay at Farnborough Main station. It was a ticket left on my windscreen, and any tickets received previously here (both unfairly and won after challenge) were posted to my house directly. I…
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Notice of Proposed Allocation to the small Claims Track" questionnaire to fill out.
Hello All, I have received a 'Notice of Proposed Allocation to the small Claims Track" questionnaire to fill out. I am so confused as to what steps I should take now. Before coming across this forum, I had already filed a 'defence' instead of 'acknowledgment'. Do I fill out this questionnaire? If so, how do I fill this…
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Smart Parking/DCB Legal new tactic, no option of appeal?
Last weekend I received a letter from Debt Recovery Plus seeking £170 for an alleged contravention from 2 months ago without any prior communication from Smart Parking. Verbatim from the letter: We are Debt Recovery Plus, we have been instructed to recover your debt. Our records show this parking charge has not been paid.…
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Appealing APCOA without expired code
I received an airport parking fine letter from APCOA after 28 days due to it arriving at my old address (I had not notified DVLA yet of my address change) I would like to appeal it using the standard format of not identifying the driver but the option to do this on APCOA site has expired. I tried emailing POPLA (enclosing…
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Smart Parking PCN - NTK Error
Hello, I have a PCN from Smart Parking via ANPR (no windscreen ticket) The Notice To Keeper arrived later than required as outlined in POFA Schedule 4 paragraph 8 Date of contravention: 28/03/26 Date issued: 13/04/26 Which exceeds the 14 days required to serve the NTK. This would be the main point to appeal to the IAS. Is…
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BW Legal help !!
Hi everyone, I'm looking for some advice regarding a Premier Park parking charge that has now been passed to BW Legal. Background Location: Birchley Island Retail Park, Oldbury Date of parking event: 6 June 2025 Maximum stay: 3 hours Recorded stay: 3 hours 21 minutes PCN amount: £100 POPLA appeal: Rejected Current BW Legal…
