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Parking Charge to pay or not to pay
Alleging overstay. Landowner won't do anything to help - haven't officially complained but made a few shirty phonecalls & spoke to a manager. workflow dynamics Thoughts?
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UKPC POPLA Appeal- Registered Users Only
Hi All I've got a couple of days left to file my POPLA against UKPC for a PCN my dad received for parking in a 'registered users only' car park. He last used it in 2023 prior to UKPC taking over so was unaware of the restrictions. My draft POPLA is below- I'd welcome any comments or recommendations. I haven't mentioned it…
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DCBL notice of debt recovery letter
Just received a letter in the post about a notice of debt recovery from a parking charge in 2023! It says it cannot be appealed and ‘must’ be paid within 14 days.. do I wait for another letter to come through? Thanks!
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DCB Legal Smart Parking Claim Tower Road, Newquay. Defended and discontinued
Hello all Thanks to the advice on the forum I made a successful POPLA appeal against a Smart Parking NTK in 2021. Unfortunately friends who were with us had moved house and missed the deadline for the appeal. They notified Smart Parking of the change of address. This arrived the other day. The MCOL website would not…
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Trouble with Bank Park
Hi All, I'm a newbie here. Living in South West London. Thanks for having me. I've recently had Parking Charge Notice from a pribate company called Bank Park, who operate in this area. I was wondering if anyone had any advice on how best to deal with. Apparently I parked my car , just outside the lines of a parking space…
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Napier Parking - reminder letter £170 - ignore?
Have read the newbies thread and wanted to check I'm doing the right thing. I had to tell Napier I was the driver as my husband was being chased as Keeper and didn't like it. Situation is this: we pulled into the car park on Church Hill in Northfield, which I thought was still council-owned and used to be free after 6 pm.…
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Dart Charge - Enforcement
Hello, I am writing this on behalf of someone else. The individual in question used the Dartford crossing in February of this year and wasn't aware of the requirement to pay. Yesterday, they had a visit from an enforcement officer demanding payment. Some context - both they and their daughter are disabled, suffering from…
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CEL Private Parking CCJ Claim — Poor Signage Defence — Help Needed
Hi All, concerned newbie here desperately looking for advice on how to move forwards with County Court Claim from Civil Enforcement Ltd. Incident occurred last year on January 30th at the Bellevue car park (237-259 Greenwich High rd, SE10 8NB) in front of ALDI and many other small shops. CEL refused my challenge on grounds…
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Alliance parking
Hello, I received a Notice from Alliance Parking for 10 mins staying on the Pottery street Swansea without any marks, not on the parking bays. I was trying to find a relative business to appeal, but unsuccessful. Only one mark I found on the street, the photo attached above. It mentioned that road is Private, but no names…
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DCB Legal #Discontinuance
ECP and DCB Legal, received the notice a week before they had to pay the court fee. Thank you newbies thread! @Umkomaas
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Saba Parking Charge Notice: Appealed
I appealed a PCN in a Saba station car park citing POFA schedule 4 didn’t apply on railway land and stating that I wouldn’t be naming the driver and to cancel or issue a POPLA code. What I didn’t know about was an amendment to the Act that allows keeper liability on land previously under statutory control came into force…
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Apcoa Farnborough Main station
Hi all First time posting on here and keen for some advice please. I received a ticket from APCOA for failing to park in a marked bay at Farnborough Main station. It was a ticket left on my windscreen, and any tickets received previously here (both unfairly and won after challenge) were posted to my house directly. I…
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Notice of Proposed Allocation to the small Claims Track" questionnaire to fill out.
Hello All, I have received a 'Notice of Proposed Allocation to the small Claims Track" questionnaire to fill out. I am so confused as to what steps I should take now. Before coming across this forum, I had already filed a 'defence' instead of 'acknowledgment'. Do I fill out this questionnaire? If so, how do I fill this…
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Smart Parking/DCB Legal new tactic, no option of appeal?
Last weekend I received a letter from Debt Recovery Plus seeking £170 for an alleged contravention from 2 months ago without any prior communication from Smart Parking. Verbatim from the letter: We are Debt Recovery Plus, we have been instructed to recover your debt. Our records show this parking charge has not been paid.…
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Appealing APCOA without expired code
I received an airport parking fine letter from APCOA after 28 days due to it arriving at my old address (I had not notified DVLA yet of my address change) I would like to appeal it using the standard format of not identifying the driver but the option to do this on APCOA site has expired. I tried emailing POPLA (enclosing…
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Smart Parking PCN - NTK Error
Hello, I have a PCN from Smart Parking via ANPR (no windscreen ticket) The Notice To Keeper arrived later than required as outlined in POFA Schedule 4 paragraph 8 Date of contravention: 28/03/26 Date issued: 13/04/26 Which exceeds the 14 days required to serve the NTK. This would be the main point to appeal to the IAS. Is…
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BW Legal help !!
Hi everyone, I'm looking for some advice regarding a Premier Park parking charge that has now been passed to BW Legal. Background Location: Birchley Island Retail Park, Oldbury Date of parking event: 6 June 2025 Maximum stay: 3 hours Recorded stay: 3 hours 21 minutes PCN amount: £100 POPLA appeal: Rejected Current BW Legal…
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Multiple CCJs at old address - never received claim forms - what should I do?
Hi all, I've recently discovered that I have three CCJs on my credit file and I'm feeling completely overwhelmed. The CCJs are dated: July 2025 January 2026 June 2026 All of them are linked to my previous address: The problem is that I moved out of that address in May 2025, before any of these judgments were entered. I had…
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Northern Ireland registered car, ticketed in England
The registered keeper of a car registered with DVA Northern Ireland has received a ticket in the post from a private car park in England, issued by a company called 'Initial Parking'. My very crude & limited understanding is that POFA doesn't apply in NI, however it does in England & Wales. What I'm unsure of is if POFA…
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Major Keying Error - currently being messaged by Trace Debt Recovery
Hi everyone, really need some advice for an NCP Parking Charge that's since been passed to Trace. on the 4th March I parked and paid at NCP Lincoln Brayford Street. I paid the fee of £14, and have bank evidence confirming this (location, date, money paid). A month or so later I received a Parking Charge Notice by NCP…
