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How I Beat a Private Parking Company in Court and Got Paid £100 Instead
Most people just pay when they get a private parking charge. The letters look official. The language is intimidating. The legal process seems overwhelming. But I didn’t pay. In 2025, I was pursued for £908 by X Parking Services. Their claims escalated from ignored appeals to debt collectors, then solicitors, and finally…
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Parking Ticket while at work on site
I recently received a parking ticket from Civil Enforcement for going over 90 mins for a KFC carpark. I was actually working on site at KFC for the duration of this time and have time stamps for the job to confirm this. I have received this fine from work as I was using a company van and had to appeal as they would of…
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Smart Parking - DCBL - Pay within 30 days or legal claim
I received a letter from DCB Legal demanding payment of £170 within 30 days or else a claim form will be issued. This is relation to a Smart Parking PCN issued in 2023. The PCN pertains to a lease vehicle that I no longer possess and relates to an alleged parking contravention at the Fiveways Car Park, Birmingham. For the…
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DCB LEGAL - SMART PARKING
Hi posting this for a friend Have read the FAQ's and though I am sure the questions I want to ask are covered there somewhere, I needed to get some clarity so I thank the wonderful people here in advance Attached is the claim form from SMART PARKING UK (DCB LEGAL) Friend says he received (and ignored) letters about this at…
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Multiple CCJs from PCNs I was unaware about. URGENT, PLEASE HELP!
Hi, can anyone help? I'm panicking as l've received two CCJs for multiple PCNs that I was not aware of. I had moved addresses at the end of 2023 and started a new job around the same time. In that time, I also got a new vehicle with my new address on the V5 form around that period. So I didn't receive any PCNs from that…
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Tesco Hove - Horizon Parking, Reminder letter
Hello! Apologies if this has already been covered, but I'd like to have your advice regarding a parking charge notice my
mum received. On the 24th October, she received a "Notice to Keep Reminder"
from Horizon Parking Ltd., dated 21st October. The notice claims that
she failed to validate her receipt during her stay at…
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DCBLegal response to newbie template!
Hi, Posting this on behalf of my other half who's been trying to contest a LOC sent by DCBLegal. They've had this response through after using the template in the newbie guides. They're not too sure what the next step is after this and are getting a little bit worried about whether they'll need to pay! Any advice would be…
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Smart Parking Penalty/ Private spaces
Hi everyone, I'm looking for advice on a penalty I received from Smart Parking 24/10/24. The car park is on Spring Street Car, Wilmslow. Council owned but some spaces and floors are leased privately by other companies (this one is Emerson). I paid correctly (Ringo) for my space and time, ticket fully visible and returned…
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Court judgement issued against me - I never knew!
So I would appreciate your advice please: in March 2023 I and my partner parked with a Blue Badge in a disabled space in Hartlepool Marina and bought some lunch, thinking nothing of it. I later get "parking charge notices" from Northwest Parking Management Ltd followed by DCBL and after taking advice ignored them as not…
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DBCL Claim Form- Does my defence sound ok ?
Hi, Further to my earlier post, this is my defence. Does it sound ok and do I need to add anything else? DEFENCE * The Defendant is the registered keeper of the vehicle in question. The Defendant denies liability for the entirety of the claim and puts the Claimant to strict proof of all aspects of their claim. * On the…
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Notice of debt recovery Unpaid CCJ
Hello I once again I'm here to seek advice on behalf of someone who is unfamiliar with the forum. I have gone through the newbies threads. But would like the simple step of breakdown of how to proceed with this particular case so that I can relay that information to the person. I have attached the letter that was received.…
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Myrtle Parade Parking dispute
Hi I need some advice, in may of this year I drove through the car park and parked on Chatham street and picked up a sandwich from subway. After it was eaten I drove back through the car park as I have done many times. Two to three months later I received an invoice for parking in Myrtle Parade which I disputed as I have…
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Horizon Parking, Tesco, Hove
I'm a little overwhelmed from reading the newbies post and other help here, finding it hard to know where to start and what is good or bad advice. I received a letter on 20th October, dated 13th October, about parking without a validated ticket on 25th September at Tesco, Hove. I had no idea they had re-introduced ticketed…
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Dcbl asda parkingeye
Hello everyone, i received today letter from dcbl , i neen parked my car at ada parking station for 15min in the morning( before i go to the hospital) i been parking here many times, maybe fine because i parked in the morning ( around 6 -7am but problem is no barriers there and now after 1 year they send me this letter.…
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Gatwick Drop-Off Charge - cant appeal because PC reference not recognised
Hi Sorry if it was discussed and I missed this somewhere. I am trying to appeal the Gatwick Drop Off Charge and normally I would go to the NCP website and complete the online form. However, when I enter the PCR in the appeal form they say it cannot be found? Becasue of that I now missed the timeslot to appeal and got my…
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Armtrac PCN Appeal Final Letter
Hello, I have looked through the Forums trying to find an answer before I post this, but there are too many and the helpful hints don't seem to cover our issue. We had a PCN for parking on Private Land. We bought a ticket and it has the right registration on it and the correct charge paid, but it was a windy day and the…
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Pre legal notice from ZZPS
August last year I received a PCN from Smart Parking and a couple of weeks ago I have now received a letter of pre legal notice saying if I don't pay the fine my case will be handed to a litigator who will proceed with legal action? Can anyone please advise me on what I should do? I have seen a lot of people saying to go…
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APCOA - Triple threat
Slightly odd situation, looking for welcome advice. I have trawled through the forums and as you will see I'm mid-process with some of this, but it keeps getting stranger. All tickets received at Chiltern Rail - Haddenham & Thame Parkway car park. Disclaimer - I am aware some of this is my fault. The first two PCN's were…
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CCJ set aside - update received letter regarding CCJ and payment
Hi - I am trying to help an elderly family member. Will try to keep this short and concise - their CCJ set aside call is tomorrow via video call parking offence in 2020 NTK in 2 days after CCJ 2021 they did not have a windscreen ticket The picture is taken from a car (patrol officer in a car) and the car is half out the…
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Parking Control Management - PCN
I wont bore everyone with screenshots and specifics (unless advised to of course). Long story short a vehicle registered in my name was parked in a restricted area (albeit a poorly signposted one at that). No windscreen ticket, just a letter in the post a month later asking for £60. Any point appealing or best to just wait…
