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CP plus Parking Charge
I've received a parking charge letter via post from CP plus for £100 for not paying for parking in St. Peters Retail Park in Mansfield. The letter states I stayed for 1hr and 3mins and exceeded the free 45 mins. I've read the newbie forum and was going to use the template but wanted to ask if it was appropriate as the…
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Help Needed – Letter Before Claim from Gladstones for Council-Owned Car Park PCN
Hi all,I’m looking for some advice as I’ve just received a Letter Before Claim from Gladstones Solicitors chasing me for an unpaid PCN from January 2025 (nearly 11 months ago). This has appeared completely out of nowhere.I moved house earlier this year, so I may have missed previous letters. Gladstones say they carried out…
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Paragraph 3 Defence Help Please
Hi All, I was not the driver at the time, but am the registered keep of my wife's car. She was driving at the time and doing a dog walk for a resident on the street in question. Said resident would be a witness, if required, but is that actually needed? I am unsure how do complete my paragraph 3. Do I state I was not the…
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Defending claim from UKCPS / Moorside Legal
I’ve had a PCN from UKCPS, they refused all appeals, I’ve ignored all further correspondence and now been issued with court claim via Moorside Legal. I’ve submitted my AOS via MCOL and need to prepare my defence before 14/5/25. In the meantime I’ve been focusing my attention on landowner complaint however they are saying…
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Another Stansted APCOA query
Hi all. Daughter had a courtesy car while her car was in body shop for some work. She volunteered to run some friends to Stansted Airport so used the hire car. This was in June. Obviously didn't see any signs regarding costs. I have received a Parking Charge letter from APCOA Parking with the usual charge and warning etc.…
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Gatwick Airport Drop-off
Hi all, I am aware of the fairly recent "relevant land" defence for PCNs relating to airport dropoff but have a query related to it. We went to court with NCP some time ago (and won thanks to your support) but an exchange with the Magistrate keeps bugging and thought I'd seek your views. The Magistrate made a very clear…
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ecp + starbucks = court (help needed)
Hi all — hoping for some help with a DCB Legal claim (ECP) after a Starbucks drive-through visit I’ve read the NEWBIES thread and I’m now at the stage of preparing my Defence. I’d really appreciate some guidance on what points to include. Background (brief): * I was travelling for a medical training day and stopped at…
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Upcoming mediation call with DCB Legal
Hi all, so I have my mediation call on the 5th of January for a case where I was stopped in a car park and not parked, anyway my question is I am permanently moving out of the country three days after the call so if we don’t come to a resolution on the mediation call what would happen? I understand the next stage would go…
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Group Nexus, DCB Legal court claim 2025, the driver parked in a disabled bay
Hi guys, So as the title suggests, I have a PCN for parking in a disabled bay at B&Q. i know this will be frowned upon and I myself wouldn;t usually park there, but we were in a rush to get something and there were literally dozens of empty spaces so it would make no difference to anyone on this particular day. Anyway, a…
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NCP PCN for ANPR error
Hi, The car is leased and is typically parked every Thursday at an NCP car park. On this occasion, they allege that the car stayed for over a week. Which is incorrect. The car was parked on 30th of Oct and on 6th of Nov (separately), and payment was done via their app. It appears that their camera has not recorded the exit…
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PRIVATE PARKING SOLUTIONS - SMALL CLAIMS LETTER
Hi all, I have the attached small claims letter for an alleged parking offence last year, on Regis Road, Kentish Town. To date I just ignored all correspondance regarding it. I do not remember about the offence particularly as it was a works van and I wasn't driving it at the time, but I am the owner of the business that…
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Merged: LBC received – disabled bay PCNs (genuine wheelchair user, Equality Act?)
This discussion has been merged.
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Patcham High School / Community Centre - One Parking Solution
Hello, having posted in this discussion, it was suggested I started a new thread, so here goes. My initial post was as follows: hello, don't know if this is the best possible place to raise this or whether to start it's own thread, my car was ticketed in the same location and same circumstances. I did not pay the charge…
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BW Legal LoC - Permit Holders Carpark
Hi guys, I've just got home from some time working away to see that I have a LoC from BW Legal on behalf of Armtrac SS, the 30 day window to respond expired 2 days ago which I missed. The charge applies to my vehicle being parked with no permit in a permit holders only 'carpark' belonging to Harbour Hotel, St Ives which…
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All Parking Svs UK - zzps- Popla??
Hi allHaving scanned what seems like a thousand threads, I'm finding my particular issues haven't been covered before .....so apologies up front if its been covered before & I've missed it/them. I got an NTK/PCN by post for a residents carpark, for non display of permit. Issue 1) valid permit was on display, but had slid…
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Parking in Disabled - Mcdonalds
Hi, I have received a notice to keeper from MET Parking services for parking in a disabled parking space at Mcdonalds. The driver at the time was told to park up and wait for their food. The car park was busy and the waiting bays were taken up. The driver parked in the free space which happened to be a disabled parking…
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Horizon Parking Charge Tesco Overstay
Evening all, I have today received a parking charge for a roughly 30 minute overstay at Tesco on the 28th November. The parking charge issue date is the 8th December. Today I have received the letter and charge, dated the 8th December, which seems a bit sus, a seven day delivery time? I have read the newbie thread and my…
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DVLA complaints about PPCs abysmally low. Why?
I recently submitted a Freedom of Information (FoI) request to the DVLA to find out how many complaints they’ve received about private parking companies—particularly those we frequently see breaching the PPSCoP and PoFA. It’s often said that the DVLA won’t “bite the hand that feeds it”, and we regularly hear complaints…
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Getting Defence Ready
Hey there! So I'm currently in the process of writing up my defence and was wondering if there are any other points or previous cases to point towards that will further aid my support. Apologies in advance for the long read but I have been reading through numerous threads and pages the last few months to be better equipped…
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Manchester Airport T1 drop off fine
Just received one of these through the post from APCOA after dropping our son off who was moving to Australia and we were understandably distressed and must have missed the signs and there was no toll in use like we have used at Liverpool before. Anyway I’ve seen there are a million and one of these posts on here but our…
