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I Park Services/DCB Legal defence
Just looking for an expert review/critique of this defence that is being submitted for a claim from I Park Services through DCB Legal. No IAS appeal was made. The location is Mere Green, Sutton Coldfield. It was at night and the defendant (RK) was dropped off at the location with a friend and the defendants husband drove…
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Hope Cove Car Park 2024
On the 10/01/2024 I parked at this car park in Hope Cove. There was no one else parked there but us. Similar to previous posts on the subject. I received letter from PPS telling me I had to pay £60. I have appealed, only today receiving a letter that it was not successful, so it is going to the IAS next. As they say it was…
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One Parking and Llangrannog - again!
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/jan/26/man-in-welsh-language-parking-penalty-battle-claims-company-harassed-him
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Middleway retail park burton Smart Parking
After some helpful information from this forum I've just been told my appeal to POPLA has been withdrawn by the parking company and parking ticket cancelled. Thought I would post on here in case anyone else has the same problem as me being landed with a ticket for overstaying the free period by 10minutes and a few seconds…
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Smart Parking Appeal / Appreciation Post
Parked in a pub car park for half an hour while had a drink, spotted signs about car park is only for patrons but didn’t notice a machine inside. Like many I was angered to receive a PCN through the post. Sent the template from newbie thread via appeal form and a month later had the response. “ Thank you for your recent…
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Petition related to not receiving letters from parking companies.
Hi, I've recently had a need to read through a lot of stuff on this site, and others, and learnt a lot from it. However, I noticed a lot of cases where people are coming along and saying they've just had demands from parking companies for payments because they haven't replied to earlier letters which, they're claiming,…
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BPA site appears to be down
The BPA website appears to be having problems. I tried to access it just now and got an unsafe site warning. Your connection isn't private Attackers might be trying to steal your information from www.britishparking.co.uk (for example, passwords, messages or credit cards). NET::ERR_CERT_REVOKEDRefreshHide…
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ParkingEye charge success - vehicle breakdown
Hi I recently appealed a PCN from ParkingEye for ‘parking’ at a Welcome Break on the M1 whilst broken down awaiting recovery. A few days after doing this I took advice from this Forum and decided to ask WB to get the charge cancelled - although WB website says they don’t intervene, but today they have responded to say they…
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Charge in disabled bay - parked awkwardly
Hello I received the charge yesterday. I don't think I stand a chance of winning an appeal, but thought I'd check here. On a retail park, I was parked in a disabled bay (blue badge not the problem as was displayed) The stated offence from the 16th is 'Not Parked Wholly within bay' which was true. I tried to park better,…
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Civil National Business Centre (CNBC) performance statistics.
Stumbled across this earlier today... Weekly performance national business centre updated 12 December 2023 It shows where the biggest delays might be. For example it reports... * they are currently taking thirty-one working days - that's working days, i.e over six weeks - to send out a Directions Questionnaire. But we…
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ANPR cameras recently installed at Wickes car park, Barnstaple.
G24 infestation with ANPR scameras now in operation.
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PALS Hospital parking template letter
I had some success in cancelling parking tickets from a hospital after DCBL tried sending me the usual guff… please feel free to use my template directed at PALS which got my tickets cancelled within a week. Dear St George’s Hospital PALS I’d like to draw your attention to two very uncomfortable letters I received in the…
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You and Yours Call-in Today on Private Parking Companies
Radio 4 You and Yours right now is a call in about dodgy private parking firms: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001sd2q
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DCB Legal Limited - my Counterclaim against it
UK Parking Control Limited (UKPC) and its Solicitors, DCB Legal Limited (DCB) had picked up an old PCN Claim against me. Managed by DCB Legal Ltd and going back to 2017 (lots of letters, then a legal Letter of Claim (at this point also entering the Court's legal system), now a District Court Hearing later this month. As…
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No parking after 8pm, store closes at 9pm (allegedly)
Currently being investigated by the head of the parking group that got DSFP kicked out of the Sandhills car park in Devon. G24 signs have appeared at a B & M store in Barnstaple restricting parking from 8am to 8pm, but the store is believed to close at 9pm. Watch this space.
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Smart Parking, again!
I have seen several previous threads about Smart Parking, but all seem to have been closed. I have just put this review on Trustpilot and similar on Google after I stopped off at Angouleme Way in Bury after dropping hubby in Bolton. Smart Parking are the company concerned. I detest being ripped off, not the money, matter…
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Making a profit out of my PCN?
I got a PCN a couple of months ago (BPA member). Appealed by sending a letter as per the MSE guidance. I sent the letter Royal Mail Signed For. Their tracking showed it never got delivered. Meanwhile, I get another notice from the parking firm. So I claimed compensation from Royal Mail, who duly sent me £52.25. I then…
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TEMPLATES TO DEMOLISH MET PARKING AND CST LAW's ATTEMPTS LEVEL PARKING FINES AGAINST YOU
Hi AllThis post consists of 5 template letters (of 9 pages in all) which were sent between May and October 2021, and which succeeded in scotching Met Parking and CST Law's claims and threats. After my last letter of October 2021, sent directly to the head solicitor of CST Law, (Removed by Forum Team), I have heard not a…
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APCOA railway parking PCN - won
I'm posting this in case it helps anyone else who has received a PCN for parking in a railway station. By not naming the driver and following a few guides on here we won the case (APCOA pulled out when we submitted the appeal to Popla). Back in February we parked at the local railway station and thought we had paid with…
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A funny tale
Once upon a time..... I was visiting the Law Centre (now defunct), it was in the backend of Sheffield (and that's not the joke!) with no through traffic. Painted on the brickwork of the building were the words PARKING and I assumed that I was good to park (albeit on a very very wide piece of tarmac - not causing a…
