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DCBL Notice of Discontinuance
Back in early 2024 I parked at Euro Car Parks in Preston. I was there for 29 minutes and paid for an hour. The machine only took the first two letters of my number plate, which I later found out is a very common fault at that site. Despite having proof of payment, received a PCN by post. I appealed with the ticket, receipt…
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Parkmaven DCB LEGAL court claim 2025
Hi everyone, I've read the newbies thread and understand what template to email at this stage. I've received a letter of claim from dcb legal for using a car park without paying because the pay machines weren't working (I attempted to pay on two different machines and I was roughly 15 minutes). Few questions: 1. Can I send…
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Harrow Hall - Langley - PCN Parking Eye
Dear all, First of all thank you in advance for all your help. I am in the exact situation of the gentlemen in this post. I (registered keeper) have received a PCN from Parking Eye for driving into 'Harrow Hall carpark': https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6549898/pcn-parking-eye/p1 The only difference is that…
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Smart Parking Ltd, Parking Fine
I have just received a letter from DCBL asking me to pay a parking fine for overstaying at a Smart Parking Ltd car park in July 2024 between 6am and 730am. I haven't received any previous letters to appeal etc due to moving house and not updating the V5 log book (I did update driving licence before this took place and…
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ECP DCB Legal court claim 2025
On 21st March, I received a PCN from Euro Car Parks for parking in Chelmsford Meadows car park. The entry time was recorded as 24th February 2024 at 23:16:41, and the exit time was 25th February 2024 at 03:40:23. However, I live 27 miles from Chelmsford and was at home asleep during this time. It appears that my car has…
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DCB LEGAL court claim 2025 - UKPC – Parkhouse Court - Hatfield - Draft Defence.
Hello all, Looking for some help with a (couple of) parking pCN from UKPC @ Parkhouse
Court – Hatfield. Data of love note on car: 7-9-2024 Date of NTK’s: 2 x on
10/10/2024 (date on the letter, received a day or a few later) First off I’m somewhat behind on dealing with this, life’s
been getting in the way the last month or…
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No PCN or NTK SABA
Looking for some advice please as to next course of action, if any. RK received a ZZPS letter referring to an unpaid parking charge, contravention date in November. No previous NTK or PCN have been received. No recent changes in circumstances eg change address, vehicle ownership and not a company car. My question is,…
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Yet another scumbag parking eye letter - Fox House, Derby - POPLA Stage
Seem to be getting these every year now. I don't think they even bother putting signs up in some places and assume some people will blindly pay the ridiculous amounts asked for. I'm just posting yet another appeal and eventual success to show people on this board that despite some naysayers, POPLA will still stick up for…
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Smart Parking / DCB legal - proceeded before this forum
hello, I (like many others apparently) am the subject of a smart parking / DCB legal escalation from an alledged offence in 2022. Before being aware of this forum, I used AI with the help of any recollection of 4 years prior to draft my defence, I have now been sent the DQ form which I have filed, my concern here is, how…
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NCP PCN - Parking in a disabled space without a blue badge
Hey, hoping for some advice I recently parked at a NCP car park without any parent and child bays with my 3.5 month twin boys. There were only a handful of regular bays which were far too tight to fit into. After attempting to park into one and realising I could barely open the door for me to get out, I decided to use a…
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Received a Civil National Business Centre Claim form
Hi, I received a parking ticket from dcbl whilst I was at a charging at a Tesla bay. Apparently I was meant to ‘sign in’ in the hotel. Parking charge was for £170.00, which I disputed in an email with the following: Dear DCBL, I am writing regarding the above parking charge. I dispute this alleged debt. I was using the EV…
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APCOA Parking PCN - Guildford Station Long Stay
Hi all, I've been reading lots of posts on this forum for the past few months, for personal interest, and now becuase a family member has a PCN... Basically I'm starting to doubt my self wether the wording of the appeal below was actually correct... My understanding at the time was the land the car was parked on is railway…
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UKCPM - Should I complain? - Over £500
Hi all, First I would like to apologise. I found this forum way too late and so have already committed some of the "sins" such as responding when in Scotland and going to the IAS. A lesson learnt, but might have worked out in my favour (see below). I have also read all the stickies. I am here at the "waiting for LBC…
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Appealing payment not taken with POPLA
A couple of months ago I parked in the car park at Wycombe Rye Lido in High Wycombe. I entered my number plate, paid with Google pay the 50p for my parking, then received a notification of payment on my phone and thought no more about it. 7 days later, I received a fine for "Payment not made in accordance with notified…
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Civil Enforcement letter
Hi all. I really appreciate some help and advice about the following case which occurred about a year ago to a friend of mine He parked outside a restaurant and was in there for about 30 minutes. When he came out he saw that he was fined for parking outside the store. So he appealed and provided receipt from the restaurant…
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Parkingeye 10 minute grace period under BPA Guildines
Hello, I have received a pcn from parkingeye, when parking at tescos express. It was 30 minutes max stay and I went over by 4 minutes. I didn't recieve any original fines, just the typical DCB debt recovery letter. When I contacted parkingeye making a "late appeal", and advised them of this also alongside the fact that the…
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Fraisthorpe beach car park landowner
My partner received a PCN for Fraisthorpe Beach car park. We were there at the time and date stated but I had paid for parking on the Connect Cashless app as the pay information directed. I have a parking receipt in the app. It shows the make, model and colour of the car but not the car reg. I can't remember whether I was…
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PCN from Cumbria Parking Services
Hi there, We recently popped to the shop at the Keswick Pencil Museum. We were in and out of the car park in 19 minutes. I don’t remember if prominent signage or not tbh, it was a dark rainy afternoon. We obviously ought to have got a ticket but we did not, probably because it was raining we were only intending to be…
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Old alleged parking infraction dated 2021
The letter is from DCB ltd. Is there anything to do before I get the letter before court. I have read the Newbies sticky FAQ post 2 but could not find anything this old. So don't know if the oldness is relevant here.
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lost handbag in shop and overstayed parking
driver was shopping and was going to register to pay. Handbag was missing! Searched everywhere in panic then waited at door to see if anyone was leaving with it. Eventually enlisted staff who were slow, until the manager started searching the upper floor and to drivers relief came back with bag, phone, and wallet still…
