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APCOA parking charge
Hi All - we had a nightmare in March. Long story short we had a hire car booked in Newcastle but our train was cancelled in Leeds and we were unable to reach Newcastle before the hire place closed. We made our way to a branch in Leeds station (Enterprise FYI) and were lucky enough to be able to move our booking and rent a…
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All Parking Services UK Ltd
Hi all, Newbie here i have read the newbies thread, i will be using the one size fits all as the first appeal. I recieved the below ntk in the post. it looks like it's not POFA worded. Can someone please confirm.
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Smart Parking/DCB Legal court claim form received (x2)
Hi there. Before I start can I please say a massive thank you to everyone who gets involved and who offer so much advice with regards to these parking ticket a$$ holes! I have spent 4 years searching this site, getting utterley confused followed by many light-bulb-moments of absolute clarity, before yet more confusion, and…
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HELP!!! - Parking Charge Appeal -POPLA / NCP
Hi all, I'm looking for advice on a POPLA appeal against a parking charge from NCP and whether my situation is likely to succeed. I have put the details below: Entered a 24-hour ANPR car park (standard NCP car park, comes under the T&C's for 'List of Car Park T&C's) Paid the correct tariff via Apple Pay (covers 2–3 hours,…
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SMART PARKING: DCB LEGAL. Court Claim 2025
Hi I received a letter two weeks ago saying that I will potentially be taken to court for parking fine, and potential CCJ. I have misplaced the letter but I have done the AoS on MCOL website. According to MCOL website: Claim issued against me: 17/10/2025 Received in post: 22/10/2025 My AoS: 24/10/2025 They received AoS:…
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Multiple PCN notices
Today I received two PCNs for parking my car in the same place on the 13th and 14th of this month. The parking bay in question is for a store across the road. It is clearly signposted as parking for patrons only, so yes, I'm in the wrong. The big problem for me is I have parked there an additional EIGHT times before…
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DCB Legal Smart Parking defended claim
Hi all, Ive received two(!) pre-legal debt collection notice from ZZPS on behalf of Smart Parking. The “offences” were both in May 2023 (insufficient paid time). I paid via cash on both occasions on an ANPR car park. I followed advise to not pay at the time and as of now August / September 2025 I have received the two…
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Parking Claim defended, now Directions Questionnaire/mediation
Went to Margate in an insurance provided courtesy car in 2024. Had a charge came through that we were over our allotted time. Any of 3 of the family could have been driving that day. We've basically ignored the letters since then. Had a Court Claim from DCB Legal. I put together a defence from info on this forum, and have…
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Car Park Breakdown.
At around 5.15pm my can handbrake stuck on. It was in a G24 Ltd managed car park with 90 minute parking limit. It was almost 11pm by the time the correct recovery truck arrived, but that's a whole other story. It left the car park on a flat bed truck, but fully expecting a pcn at some point. I have call times for recovery,…
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URGENT question -
Out of the blue on 9th May I received a letter from DCBL Direct Collection Bailiffs Ltd dated 5th May and giving me 14 days from date of letter to pay. This was terrifying! It demanded £465 in unpaid parking charges. These date back to 2023, all at the same mega-Sainsbury's car park, one a month over a 3 month period…
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POPLA rejected
What do you do now? Parking thieves want £100 I don't have.
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DCB Legal ‘mediation’ question [time sensitive]
Hello 👋 been following your advice on cancelling/ writing off an extortionate £170 parking ticket I got from Elite parking in Cambridge. It’s at this stage: I got an email from DCB legal to say that I should call them about mediation. Then in the email attachment was something else about mediation as well. I would like to…
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(VICTORY) UKPC - Driver left site - County Court stage
Hi all, My partner received a letter with claim form from the CCBC about a PCN served 6 years ago. Allegedly, the driver left the site but there are no picture of such a thing, just pictures of her car parked correctly in a bay by a cinema on the isle of wight. We have no recollection of this day and we quite often go to…
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Premier Park for Occupying More Than One Marked Bay but wasn't
I parked in an Aldi carpark at the end of a row, the adjacent driver was right to the edge of his space so I parked with my wheels over the edge of the bay in the traffic lane, not in another space. There is no question that I was not completely parked within a bay. However the charge notice states 'Occupying More Than One…
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BWLegal collection letter and Legal Defence
Hi everyone, i wanted to ask for some help with this please. I parked in a pay and display where parking with a disabled badge should be free, and received a ticket. I went to appeal and show my badge but it couldn’t find my PCN and I forgot about it over Christmas due to being a moron who can’t think about more than one…
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Debt recovery letter for airport drop off pcn
Hi, someone i know had a pcn from stansted airport drop off. They have ignored all the letters since and now are getting debt recovery letter. My question is should he wait for if they issue any court proceeding or contact the apcoa to let them know because of non pofa they can't transfer liability to keeper? Also what are…
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Travis Street Manchester
I intervened for a friend who received an unfair ticket for staying at Travis Street car park where they spent 20 mins trying to pay using the app (the only way to pay) and then left after being unsuccessful. Somehow I am now being taken to court by Car Park Securities as keeper despite never being the owner or keeper of…
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CE Ltd - broken down but cannot appeal
My wife has a Citroen Ami that ran out of battery so she pulled off the road into KFC car park, rang me and waited for me to go there. She went and ate in KFC so it's not like she hasn't given them money! I arrived to charge the car which obviously took some time and then we drove off again. So we didn't get a towtruck or…
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DCB Legal 50/50 Settlement
Hi All, I’ve been following the advice in the stickies how to respond to DCB Legal’ letter before claim. I requested 30 days breathing space whilst I sought debt advice. Whilst they haven’t specifically acknowledged that request, they have given me 30 days to consider whether I want to accept their clients offer of a 50/50…
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parking eye skipping response to appeal to send NOTICE OF RECOVERY
Hi all, I got a PCN from parking eye for not paying for parking at a school where I attended an event. In actual fact, I did pay for 2 hours but the event overrun by I think 20/40minutes and I lost track of time. I do not have the recipt but I have the paymnt for the 2 hours coming out of my bank statement. Their PCN…
