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Received Parking Fine Months After University Event – Unsure What to Do Next (DCBL / First Parking)
Hi everyone, I’d really appreciate some advice. In May, I attended an event at a university. The event terms stated that parking would be free as long as the vehicle registration number was provided at the time of booking. I parked without worrying, assuming everything was sorted. Last week, completely out of the blue, I…
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Just Park App
Hi, can anyone help me. I used the just park app to purchase 1 hour parking in a car park. The app charged me £53.00 and has booked me a space until 24th July. I noticed the error straight away but you could not cancel within the app - I still can’t. I clicked on request refund and they have come back to say that they…
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POPLA HIGH SIGN AND SUN BLINDING ON ENTRANCE
HI I was accompanying a Learner driver onto a closed home bargains store. 18.45 They wanted to practice bay parking. We were on for 28 min when a member of staff who was leaving said best to leave as we would recieve a fine. Today the fine arrived. I went back to the carpark to see how on earth we did not see the signs I…
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PCN from July 2024 – Never Received – Now with DCBL – Advice Please
Hi everyone, I'm seeking advice on how to proceed with a private parking charge that I only just found out about. Alleged contravention: July 2024 Location: The Hope and Bear pub car park, Reading (Euro Car Parks) Current issue: I’ve received a £170 letter from DCBL about it, giving me 14 days to pay. Problem: I never…
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Parking Fine Euro Car Park - Incorrectly Keyed Registration Plate ?!
I purchased a ticket and left within my time frame of 2 hours no problem. Euro Carparks sent me a fine, having appealed they replied saying appeal failed! ...theyare saying that it was a keying issue with my registration into the machine. I have the ticket as evidence - it does only show the first 3 characters of my…
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Minster Baywatch, Meadowhall, Gladstone Solicitors LBC
Hello all and thank you in advance. I’ve just received a LBC from Gladstones. On 2/1/2025 at Meadowhall a huge part of the car park (I needed to use) was taken up by the Christmas Fairground. I had a disabled passenger and displayed the blue badge. However, the only available space closest the entrance was a child/parent…
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Vehicle Control Services PCN and a court claim
Hi everyone, I would like some advice about my Parking Charge Notice. Key facts: PCN issued on 10/10/2024 Reson:81) Parked In A Restricted / Prohibited Area It was my first time parking in this car park. There was no more space around, so I decided to follow the person behind (my car is a black Honda). I assumed it was…
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David Lloyd Parent and Child Parking Dispute
Hi, I have read the amazing resource here regarding how to deal with these parking tickets and it’s very appreciated. My situation is as follows; I have been a long standing member of David Lloyd (3 or 4 years) and have a family membership of 4. They have recently introduced a parking enforcement company to manage use of…
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Claim Form - Capital Car Park Control / DCB Legal
Hello All, Annoying to have to be back posting here about a new PCN but glad to have made a few of your acquantaces already and I'm fairly confident about defending this claim. Mostly making this thread to document and make sure I don't overlook the obvious. So I was visiting my parents and it appears a new company has…
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Britannia Parking-DCB Legal Claim
Hi everyone, The original PCN was sent to my old address because, admittedly, I forgot to update my address with the DVLA after moving over a year before the PCN was issued. The first correspondence I actually received at my current address was already demanding £170. When I called to discuss this, I asked if they could…
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Paid but fined
Hi all. Bit of a long shot. The parking company say I didn't appeal in the 28 day time period. I did it on their Web page as soon as I got the fine, but I have no proof of doing so. I still have the original parking ticket I paid for. I only got a reply from them after I wrote and posted a letter after I got my second…
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Advice on dcblegal
Long story short, a family member has been hounded for a pcn on a sold vehicle. No evidence of sale and was a delay in notifying dvla. Said vehicle was also not registered by new owner. Have responded to lbc and requested 30 days PAP. This has been ignored and claim form issued a week later. Is this worth pursuing. Only…
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URGENT HELP!! Deadline for Defence today 7 July e-mail sent after hours to CNBC
I rushed and sent an e-mail defence to ClaimResponses.CNBC@justice.gov.uk I as worried about the time and sent it my e-mail at 16.45 tis is 28 days after service of notice having sent a AOS in time. The charge is for not parking correctly in the bays. I am worried that the time I sent it after 16.00 is too late, I also ned…
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DCBL Legal/Private Eye (5 months since Letter of claim)
Hi all, First off can I just say a big thank you to all who support on this forum. The threads are easy to follow with helpful tips for us Newbies! With my parking charge, I'm currently on the 'Letter of Claim' stage from DCBL legal on behalf of ParkingEye. It's a straightforward case; I believe to have paid the correct…
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Driver is deceased
I'm just reading all of the information provided in the newbie section. At the moment we're just dealing with dcb Ltd and on the final reminder. It's the usual did not receive any notices. The owner of the car is 82 years old and I will be dealing with this from now on. My question what are your thoughts on saying that the…
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NPC/DCB court claim June 2025
Dear Team of experts, I have received the below court claim for a parking contravention that took place in October 2024. I have done my acknowledgment online and i think i now need to email my defence by 30th July. I would be grateful if you could have a look at my drafted paragraph 3 and give me constructive feedback. For…
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Horizon parking fine - need help appealing please - SUCCESS!
Annoyingly I mistook the envelope for junk and only opened it today to find the fine is now £70! However there isn't a date that they posted the PC, just an issue date. EDIT: checked bank statements for purchases on day of ticket, can see a purchase for a shop on other side of this car park, so may have cut through this…
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Conditions of CCJ staying my record
Hi All, I am very new here so please be gentle with me. So I randomly received a N1SDT claims form from DCB legal following an over stay in a car park in 2023. The claimant being Smart Parking Limited asking for a sum of £274.88. Now I can barely remember what happened yesterday so trying to recall the events from 2023…
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Smart Parking NTK
Hi All, I received a parking charge notice from smart parking. This was in an area with several food related businesses but one of them has implemented control in their "area" there never used to be any control here and it's been in the local news having caught a lot of people out. The owner of the business just dismisses…
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Bilbrough top services
I pulled up to look at the price of a car on double yellows for 1 minute ignored all letters up to now court papers have arrived do I just pay it ?
