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Daymer Bay Car Park, PL27 6SA
The Registered Keeper has received a Parking Charge from Alliance Parking for an overstay at Daymer Bay Car Park, PL27 6SA. The Registered Keeper paid for 3 hours of parking, but overstayed by 50 minutes. The Registered Keeper wasn't the Driver. The Registered Keeper appealed to Alliance Parking, without identifying the…
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Case Report: Smart Parking wrongly pursued a former Keeper - Claim discontinued.
Invocation of Keeper liability under POFA impossible , Driver unknown, the existence of a Bill of Sale ignored This case concerned a former keeper who had already sold the vehicle to a car dealer. He held a bill of sale, and the dealer confirmed they would handle the DVLA logbook transfer. He reasonably assumed everything…
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Court Claim Form for parking in GP car park! Civil Enforcement Limited
I visited my GP with a young family member for an emergency appointment (which led to an immediate visit to A&E) in May 2025 Since my last GP a year prior, in early 2024, the GP practice had engaged a private parking company to manage their car park (car park owned by the GP practice) There is an iPad to enter your car…
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Private ticket (Group Nexus) at a retail car park in Croydon
Hi everyone, Seeking an advice on a particular situation (have trawled through the newbies section but could not find an exactly the same one). So, my mother in law who is a citizen and a resident of a non-EU country, was visiting us in recently at the end of April and I let her use our car (for which I am a registered…
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Claim form horizon/Gladstones
Hello, and thank you in advance for the support. I’ve received a County Court Claim dated 17/12/25. I’ve submitted the Acknowledgment of Service within the required timeframe, which gives me 33 days from the issue date—meaning my defence is due by 19 January (I believe). I’ve dealt with a similar claim in the past and…
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DCB Legal Letter of Claim - Smart Parking (April 2024) - V5C Update Trigger?
Hi everyone, I am looking for advice on a Letter of Claim I received in the post today from DCB Legal, acting on behalf of Smart Parking Limited.The Details: Date of Letter: 29 July 2026 Amount Demanded: £170.00 Date of Alleged Event: April 2024 The Situation: This Letter of Claim is the very first piece of mail I have…
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St. Anthony's Car Park, Penzance, Jubilee Pool, Pay on Exit, Parking Eye PCN, POPLA
If it hadn't been for another poster posting about this very same car park back in April: https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6665675/misleading-parking-eye-signs-leading-to-a-pcn I wouldn't have come across this brilliant resource. So here I am wanting to 'pay it forward'. There have been literally dozens…
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Successful complaints about private parking tickets - how to get them cancelled!
:D A happy thread of successes against private parking tickets by complaining! This is an ongoing record of cases where a motorist has succeeded in getting a private parking charge cancelled, simply by making an assertive complaint to the retailer/landowner/cinema/hotel/services (or other misinformed idiot) who naively…
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General form of judgment or order
Hi all, I've received a copy of the attached letter to the claimant (DCB Legal), stating their claim against me will be struck out if they dont serve a new POC by 20th July. If they do, I have until 17th August to submit a new defence. Now their deadline has passed, does anyone know how I can find out whether this was done…
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PPC Unsuccessful POPLA Appeal - what to do next?
Hello all, I received a PCN from a PPC (Car Parkers Anglia) for the Clink Road car park (Sea Palling, Norfolk) earlier in the year. The reason was overstaying a stipulated limit as marked by the CCTV / ANPR cameras - paid for 1 hour, total time between photographs was 1 hour 21 minutes (although my Google Timeline states…
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Creative Car Parking - not parked but got ticket
Hi Lovely Forumites Advice needed for a local community car scheme. Volunteer Driver drives in and collects person for an appointment & delivers them back a couple of hours later, at no point were they parked. A week or so later they receive a parking fee by post. They write and explain they just collected and then dropped…
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Request to submit defence after set aside - smartparking
Hi quick question and a situation I haven't come across yet. I recently succesfully went to court for a set-aside of a CJJ on the grounds it was improperly served. There is a story to this I'll post another day and @Coupon-mad thank you for everything you do. Judge agreed to award set-aside and all costs. However he also…
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Oxford City Centre PCN
Just wanted to post this in case anyone else gets one. They can be beaten. Visited Oxford city centre, that was my first mistake. They have a "temporary" scheme where you have to pay to use some roads, £5/day. That evening I tried to pay, but their website was broken. There was a note on there saying "if you get an error,…
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Payment Returned and then PCN (ParkingEye)
I tried to pay for parking on an app (evology at Fantasy Island) but it timed out. I received a "payment sent to Evology" notification from my banking app so I assumed it was paid. Get home and I've been sent a PCN from ParkingEye. Check the Evology Parking App and there's no record whatsoever. Check my banking app and the…
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(UK) Saba parking fine for parking in the incorrect zone in the hospital (i'm staff)
So, i pay a permit of £20 per month to park at the hospital as staff. One day i was late for work and decided to park in ZONE 1 as a one time thing which is closer to the hospital - I am only permitted to park in ZONE 3. I received a PCN, for failure to obtain a valid permit. So far i haven’t paid it, this was 15 days ago…
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Notice to Keeper - Napier Parking
Hi forum, Been done in by Napier parking, other half has received NTK as the car is registered in her name. Dad has dementia and told me his tablets were ready to collect, bit of a rush so I went in to town to sort, only to get there and actually check on his phone + with my sister (turns out she gets the reminders…
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Civil Enforcement - Unable to submit appeal after online portal closed no alternative contact method
Hi all, I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction as I'm unsure what my next step should be. I've received a Parking Charge Notice from Civil Enforcement relating to an alleged overstay in the car park at a KFC restaurant. Background Parking event: 17 June 2026 Notice to Keeper issue date: 23 June 2026 Notice…
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Need Advice – Fighting UKCPM PCN at Rathbone Market (110 Barking Road)
Hi all, I’ve just received a County Court Claim Form from UKCPM, issued via the County Court Business Centre, after months of letters from BW Legal. I’ve now acknowledged the claim on MCOL and want to fight this properly — but would really appreciate some outside perspective. Background: * Alleged incident took place at…
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OBServices - DCB Legal - Claim form - Defence advice (Now Discontinued)
Hi, I'm after some advice on how I should word paragraph 3 for a defence submission via MCOL please. I've read newbies and template defence threads. AOS was submitted via MCOL 1st Dec, 5 days after issue date of 26th Nov. Here are some particulars: Date: 07/04/2022 (!l The overstay to best of our recollection was only a…
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Gladstones Solicitors Letter before Claim
Hi, Horizon Parking have tried this on me before but it went away, this time I've had a solicitors letter. Horizon are claiming I strayed 7 hours in 2 hour stay car park at the local Tesco. The fact is I went there twice that day. Their letter showed 2 pictures, me arriving in daylight and leaving in the dark, it appears…
