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Parking tickets, fines & parking
Discussion List
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Debt Recovery Plus
Please see the attached letter. This is the first letter we have received in relation to “failure to pay for duration of stay” and on the day of parking the parking machine was not working. Could anyone kindly advise the best course of action to take please? (Image removed by Forum Team)
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Help with Defence against DCB legal
My partner has recivied a claim for parking, at the time she was the registared keeper (no longer is) but she was not driving at the time. There a mulitple people on the insurance to drive the vehicle and the keeper was not one of them. We do not have an orginal request from the NPC, so I don't know how long the vehicle…
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CNBC losing the plot
Here's a good one... a friend who I'm advising on for a PCN that has gone past DCB Legal LoC stage, has received in the post from HMCTS (CNBC) a letter containing a single page of A4. On one side is the standard HMCTS cover letter that accompanies the N1SDT Claim Form and response pack, you know... On the back of this…
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G24/DCBL Court Claim September 2024 - June 2025 - Wickes Customer Parking
First, thanks for having me. I have received the following Claim Form: I followed instructions as per your other posts and submitted my acknowledgment of service with intention of defending all of the claim: Now I'm writing my defence following the template and I would really appreciate some feedback: 1. The Defendant…
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Letter of Claim - DCB Legal
Hi all. Received a letter before claim over the weekend for an alleged unpaid parking charge dating back to 2021! I had allegedly parked at a hospital in Coventry and then nearly 4 and a half years later, received this letter before claim. I have received no other documentation whatsoever so this is the first I have heard…
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PCN's issued on Private Freehold Bays
Hi everyone, Back on here with some new issues with these private car parking companies. This time CCPC. We own a freehold house with an exclusively demised, numbered parking bay, clearly marked on our title. It is not a communal space. Around 2 years ago we moved in, and more recently, the estate’s Residential Management…
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SMART PARKING LTD / ZZPS
Oct 2022 I parked on private land, not park of Alfred st car park. I receive a letter saying I owe money for parking without a ticket. Emailed asking for proof and singage. They said PCN was stuck to window. 7th may 2025 I receive a letter from zzps asking for 160£ emailed asking for proof again and basically was denied as…
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Smart Parking IAS Claim
Hi all Hoping you can help me out of this mess please. We had paid for a 2 hour visit, overstayed by 12 mins whilst drying our dogs, not realising it was ANPR and got a ticket from SP through the post. I have appealed online with the given template in the newbies thread however they’ve come back to me stating it’s been…
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Britannia Parking Notice to Keeper
Hi everyone, Hope someone can help. Just got a notice to keeper through the door, having read a lot of the threads on here and comparing the pictures of the POFA compliant and non POFA compliant, it is my opinion that the NTK that I’ve got is non POFA so I’m assuming I can appeal based on this and go down the route of not…
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dcblegal letter before claim
Firstly I would like to thank all contributors, may you be of useful help to my plight. I received a letter before claim from dcblegal for an issue from 2019 when I used to live in Luton. I responded by asking them to put the issue on hold for 30 days & submitted a SAR to their client G24. After a week or so I rang…
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What do I do? Email following passing over of driver details
Passed drivers details over, yet apparently I went over the 28 days, what do I do? This was following a ntk and a couple of the usual warnings
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Seeking Advice: Debt Collector for Parking Fine - Genuine Error & Difficult Time (UK)
Hi all, I'm hoping to get some opinions on a debt collector letter I've received from a debt collection company for £170, concerning an alleged unpaid parking fine from a private parking operator on 20th July 2020. My current car was involved. Here are the key points of my situation: * Payment Made: I paid for parking via…
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Parking space which is half hatched - what is the purpose?
I am currently in the process of appealing a PCN using the wealth of info detailed within this forum, my question pertains more to the space itself. I can't see any reason why this has been hatched off other than to catch out unsuspecting motorists? If someone reversed into this space they could get out of the car without…
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Parking charge / smart parking 5 years ago / ZZPS
Hi, I would appreciate any help or guidance please. I have read the newbies forum but have no idea where to start in regards to thread numbers etc. I have received a parking charge from zzps that backdates to April 2020. I haven’t received any correspondence in regards to this as I would’ve dealt with the issue 5 years…
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SMART PARKING AGAIN
Hello As Keeper of a vehicle I received two Notice to Keeper Parking charges. After reading the British Parking Association Code of Practice I appealed both on the grounds that Smart Parking had not given the required displayed/ notice of a change of parking conditions (4 months). On both sets of correspondence SP put that…
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Parking charge for dropping camping equipment at friends flat has escalated to DCBL debt recovery
Hi all, would appreciate some advice please. Essentially, I received 2x fines (parking without e-permit) for briefly loading/unloading my vehicle in my friend's apartment complex (we were camping with lots of equipment). My friend assured me all would be fine and she would take care of it before I entered. Received 2x…
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Pcn in pub carpark
Hi looking for some help. recieved a pcn from Britannia for car being parked in pub carpark without giving reg at the bar, the driver had parked there loads of times and didn’t know about the new system. pcn shows car entering and leaving with time stamps( driver not visible). missed deadline to pay £60 as away second…
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NCP and autopay - CCJ set aside: in-person hearing in August
Hello everyone, I wanted to get people's opinion on my parking ticket. I used to park in Manchester all the time and I used an NCP carpark near the office. They brought in autopay and I used it every day for ages. Then I changed job so didn't have to park in town anymore. Fast forward to earlier this year and I went into…
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DCBL letter on behalf of Smart Parking UK help please?
Hello, Firstly, thankyou for reading my thread. I have read the newbie information but it was very overwhelming. I'm hoping someone can advise on the best way forward. Today, I received a letter from DCBL with a notice of debt recovery of £170 for a PCN from 04/07/2021. This is the first letter or any correspondence I have…
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Parking fine, ex-husband hiding the letters
Hi all, My partner is in a sticky situation regarding a parking fine she's received. Apologies for the lengthy post but feel it's best to give all the history. My partner was handed some letter from her ex which was dated a month old. This was a reminder letter for a parking fine from 3 months ago. He denies any other…
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