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Notice of Debt Recovery (Bristol Airport) stopping in a zone where stopping is prohibited
I recieved this 'Letter of Debt Recovery' from DCBL a couple of weeks ago. It says it related to an incident of 'stopping in a zone where stopping is prohibited' which occured on 12/03/2025. This was the first correspondence of any kind that I have recieved regarding the incident. We moved house in September and only…
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ZZPS debt recovery after no first UKPC letter but 2nd UKPC letter chasing (No reply to appeal!)
In June I was in a car park/industrial estate that was 2 hours parking FREE. The gym confirmed I signed in that day but for some reason the car park tablet to enter the number platedidn't work to stay longer than 2 hours. I never got UKPC's car park's first letter telling me of this fine. The first letter I received was a…
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Civil Enforcement Limited Parking Fine - County Court Claim Issued
Hello, CEL Ltd - Gone to claims court I've received a Claim Form from Civil National Business Centre about a parking fine and would really like some help with this. I read on the forum that there is a whole thread with a defence template but I have been unable to find this. Incident I was dropping off my 16 year old son at…
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Claim Form Received
Hi all. Would be grateful for some help. I received a claim form in the post yesterday. It is from a parking fine from nearly 2 years ago. It's hard to remember the details from that long ago but I know that we tried to pay at the machine by card but the machine wouldnt take card payment. So then we had to go online on our…
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Parking fine - appeal rejected - Horizon at Tesco
, I had received a PCN from Horizon Parking for 2hrs 16 mins at a tesco superstore as a registered keeper. In my appeal, i had used the following text - This is an appeal by the registered keeper - No driver details will be given. Please do NOT try the usual trick of asking for driver details in order to get around the…
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Asda Parkingeye PCN
We have received a PCN for Asda Peterborough. Its 2 hours for free. It says to call into the store if you need more time. I am going to write to Asda to ask them to intervene but wondered if i need to refer to the driver as ‘the driver’ when writing to Asda? Brief facts… My husband was unwell on the day. He suspected he…
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Ongoing Claim and a Surprise CCJ
Hi all, I'm looking for some advice on a CCJ I have received as well as advice an ongoing claim I'm defending from the same claimant. At the end of August I received an N1SDT claim form, submitted by DCB Legal. I followed the advice of this forum, submitted my AOS and only recently sent my defense. Today I received a…
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Why did DCB Legal ask me for my DOB
DCB Legal rang me earlier today to see whether I would settle a parking fine. We couldn't agree a sum, so off to court we go.... But what I found curious was that they asked me for my Date of Birth when doing a security check. "I haven't given you my date of birth!" I replied. "We can find that out from a third party!" was…
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Dcb defence 2025
Hi, I have received a letter of claim from DCB legal. I have read the newbies post (which is great, but I’m not sure I’ve done it perfectly as there’s a lot to navigate!) and sent a reply email (I didn’t use the online portal, I emailed info with their reference). I never received anything about this parking fine until…
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Smart Parking, DCB Legal court claim 2025
Dear All I've received a letter from Debt recovery plus about a parking charge of £170.00. It's the first I've heard from them. I rang them and they've informed me that a compnay called smart parking havr passed the debt on to them. The letter informs me that their client has previously written to me about a parking charge…
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MET Parking & Southgate Park, Stansted Airport.
Hi all, This is more of a rant than anything else, with maybe the hope that a little discussion will put my mind at ease regarding the injustice of it all. Other parking operators such as NCP and APCOA seem to be able to realise 99% of the time that once a keeper replies that Airport Land is not relevant land for the…
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Gladstones LBC: Draft Response for Review
Hi all, I’ve received a Letter Before Claim from Gladstones Solicitors on behalf of Premier Parking Enforcement Ltd (dated 8th September 2025). The alleged issue is that my car was not fully within a bay. However, there were large containers and other obstructions directly opposite the bay, which narrowed the roadway. To…
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Court Fine
I’ve received a letter from a supposed West Midlands Central Finance Unit saying I owe over £700 but I have absolutely no idea what this is for. My credit score is clear & I haven’t received any fines that I am aware of. How do I know if it’s real?
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Bay Sentry via DCB Legal, issue date 9th September, POC has pleaded the alleged contravention
Hi all My wife has recieved a Claim Form from 2021, she cant remember much as was years ago. She has moved house a few times so must have been missing all the other warning letters n debt collectors letters etc. From what she does remember she was visiting a friend who was living in a flat within a controlled parking zone…
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Minster Baywatch - Lancaster
Hi all, hoping for some further advice. Keeper received NTK from PPC Minster Baywatch. There is a ticket albeit the reg has been keyed incorrectly. Parking timeframe was kept within the period and vehicle exited car park with over one hour remaining before ticket time end. PPC NTK states that the specific offence has…
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Help with completing defence statement
Hi all, I received a parking charge from UKPC in Oct 2024 after allegedly parking on private property. I appealed this originally as I was physically being prevented from leaving the car park due to another vehicle user blocking the only exit from the car park, and the fact that the hotel had a 15 minute drop off policy,…
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UK - Fine Parking lot near Stansted Airport MET parking
Hi everyone, I couldn't decide which section was best for this question. Apologies if this is the wrong one. Basically, I had briefly parked in front of a star bucks at SouthGate. We didn't even leave the car as we were debating if going there or to another shopping mall. A month later I received a parking fine over 60…
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IAS reversed decisions
2 PNCs were received for two
consecutive days from UK CPM. After UK CPM rejected the 2 appeals, follow on peals were made to IAS. On the 29th day of waiting for the IAS
adjudicator’s ruling, logged into the IAS portal to check. Upon checking, both
appeals showed “Appeal Allowed,” with timestamps of 11:04 and 11:05, from…
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Parking Group Limited - DCB Legal LTD claim 2025
Hi All, I helping my wife with her defence. EOS already submitted. Background. She purchased a valid ticket but either misplaced it or it was blown over on her dash. She does have a witness to this. She did keep the ticket but left it in the car when it was told and believed nothing would be pursued. She did receive the…
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Newbie Panicking. Received claim form
Hi everyone, thank you for all yours help for others. Yesterday received claim form dated 6.2.2025, 11 days after issue date. Its from euro car park & dcb legal ltd. Pcn issued 6.6.2021, checked my email and submitter appear 15.7.2021 . Rejected. Afte that received couple of letters but ignored till yesterday's claim form.…
