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APCOA parking charge
Hi All - we had a nightmare in March. Long story short we had a hire car booked in Newcastle but our train was cancelled in Leeds and we were unable to reach Newcastle before the hire place closed. We made our way to a branch in Leeds station (Enterprise FYI) and were lucky enough to be able to move our booking and rent a…
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Britannia Parking - NTK Received
This is the wording: We are writing to inform you that a Parking Charge has been issued to the above vehicle for the following breach of the terms and conditions: Failed to display a valid P&D ticket or Permit. The signage displayed at the entrance and throughout states that the site is private land managed by Britannia…
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Smart Parking Ltd / DCB Legal
This discussion was created from comments split from: Parking Claim defended, now Directions Questionnaire/mediation.
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Parkfair?
So I am helping a couple of people who have both received PCNs from Parkfair for parking in disabled bays at Grantham station. These used to be free but are now run by LNER, there are no signs near the bays about paying just about displaying a BB. The payment maching is a long way from the disabled bays and not obvious to…
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All Parking Services UK Ltd
Hi all, Newbie here i have read the newbies thread, i will be using the one size fits all as the first appeal. I recieved the below ntk in the post. it looks like it's not POFA worded. Can someone please confirm.
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Smart Parking/DCB Legal court claim form received (x2)
Hi there. Before I start can I please say a massive thank you to everyone who gets involved and who offer so much advice with regards to these parking ticket a$$ holes! I have spent 4 years searching this site, getting utterley confused followed by many light-bulb-moments of absolute clarity, before yet more confusion, and…
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HELP!!! - Parking Charge Appeal -POPLA / NCP
Hi all, I'm looking for advice on a POPLA appeal against a parking charge from NCP and whether my situation is likely to succeed. I have put the details below: Entered a 24-hour ANPR car park (standard NCP car park, comes under the T&C's for 'List of Car Park T&C's) Paid the correct tariff via Apple Pay (covers 2–3 hours,…
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SMART PARKING: DCB LEGAL. Court Claim 2025
Hi I received a letter two weeks ago saying that I will potentially be taken to court for parking fine, and potential CCJ. I have misplaced the letter but I have done the AoS on MCOL website. According to MCOL website: Claim issued against me: 17/10/2025 Received in post: 22/10/2025 My AoS: 24/10/2025 They received AoS:…
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Multiple PCN notices
Today I received two PCNs for parking my car in the same place on the 13th and 14th of this month. The parking bay in question is for a store across the road. It is clearly signposted as parking for patrons only, so yes, I'm in the wrong. The big problem for me is I have parked there an additional EIGHT times before…
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DCB Legal Smart Parking defended claim
Hi all, Ive received two(!) pre-legal debt collection notice from ZZPS on behalf of Smart Parking. The “offences” were both in May 2023 (insufficient paid time). I paid via cash on both occasions on an ANPR car park. I followed advise to not pay at the time and as of now August / September 2025 I have received the two…
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Parking Claim defended, now Directions Questionnaire/mediation
Went to Margate in an insurance provided courtesy car in 2024. Had a charge came through that we were over our allotted time. Any of 3 of the family could have been driving that day. We've basically ignored the letters since then. Had a Court Claim from DCB Legal. I put together a defence from info on this forum, and have…
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Car Park Breakdown.
At around 5.15pm my can handbrake stuck on. It was in a G24 Ltd managed car park with 90 minute parking limit. It was almost 11pm by the time the correct recovery truck arrived, but that's a whole other story. It left the car park on a flat bed truck, but fully expecting a pcn at some point. I have call times for recovery,…
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Court Parking Charge Money Claim
Hello all, I am looking for some advice in relation to a court claim i have received in relation to a parking charge from 2023. The below are the particulars of the claim: 1. The Defendant (D) is indebted to the Claimant (C) for a Parking Charge (PC) issued to vehicle **** *** at [redacted locstion] 2. The date of…
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URGENT question -
Out of the blue on 9th May I received a letter from DCBL Direct Collection Bailiffs Ltd dated 5th May and giving me 14 days from date of letter to pay. This was terrifying! It demanded £465 in unpaid parking charges. These date back to 2023, all at the same mega-Sainsbury's car park, one a month over a 3 month period…
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POPLA rejected
What do you do now? Parking thieves want £100 I don't have.
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DCB Legal ‘mediation’ question [time sensitive]
Hello 👋 been following your advice on cancelling/ writing off an extortionate £170 parking ticket I got from Elite parking in Cambridge. It’s at this stage: I got an email from DCB legal to say that I should call them about mediation. Then in the email attachment was something else about mediation as well. I would like to…
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Smart Parking Ltd PCN – Unpaid Charge – Beechfield Hotel Car Park 1, Blackpool
Hey all, I received a PCN from Smart Parking Ltd in 2022, for the Beechfield Hotel Car Park 1 in Blackpool. They have ANPR captures of my vehicle entering the site at 16:33:54, and leaving the site at 16:47:54. During that timeframe, I had attempted to pay for parking via the RingGo website. After submitting payment…
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(VICTORY) UKPC - Driver left site - County Court stage
Hi all, My partner received a letter with claim form from the CCBC about a PCN served 6 years ago. Allegedly, the driver left the site but there are no picture of such a thing, just pictures of her car parked correctly in a bay by a cinema on the isle of wight. We have no recollection of this day and we quite often go to…
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Premier Park for Occupying More Than One Marked Bay but wasn't
I parked in an Aldi carpark at the end of a row, the adjacent driver was right to the edge of his space so I parked with my wheels over the edge of the bay in the traffic lane, not in another space. There is no question that I was not completely parked within a bay. However the charge notice states 'Occupying More Than One…
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BWLegal collection letter and Legal Defence
Hi everyone, i wanted to ask for some help with this please. I parked in a pay and display where parking with a disabled badge should be free, and received a ticket. I went to appeal and show my badge but it couldn’t find my PCN and I forgot about it over Christmas due to being a moron who can’t think about more than one…
