Parking tickets, fines & parking

Hello all, I must say that Claude has this forum on high regard since it repeatedly recommended to try to get some advice from here. Here is the case 1. I visited a pub on New Year's Eye of 2024, parked my car, stayed there for 30mins or so and left. I hadn't seen any sign indicating that a parking fee needed to be paid.…

Hi By accident, I drove through both the drop off and pick up areas at Manchester airport a few weeks ago.At no point did my wheels stop moving and no one got out of nor got into my car.I was trying to find my BF and his friends to pick them up. I was using FIND MY FRIENDS to navigate to his location and was a driving…

Good evening, The driver fell asleep one night on the way back from work cause he was feeling exhausted and went over the free parking limit. I found a similar case on the forum of a person mentioning a telegraph article where a MOTO spokesman states there policies of not charging drivers for taking a nap due to safety…

Just starting to write my defence, I've received a total of ten letters since the incident in late 2021 all filled away. I did the initial appeal as the registered keeper only "saying something along the lines of bring it on" I was waiting for the letter of claim which 100% has not been received at either of my two private…

I stayed at the McDonalds car park for 1hour and 20 minutes rather than just the 1 hour (from what I recall I did leave and come back in because of something however I may be wrong). Would it be best to just ignore this or should I do the template response I found in the forums, which was: Dear Sir or Madam, Re: Parking…

Hubby received a parking charge for parking on a double yellow line outside a family members property (estate parking patrol by Wing Security). He was using a hire van so I'm concerned to just ignore it as I imagine the NTK will be sent to the hire company and they will most likely just pay it and deduct the amount from…

hi, I'm a newbie, so sorry if I'm asking stupid questions, basically I missed paying the drop off fee at Stanstead airport (did go onto payment site , but obviously didn't complete payment, so obviously my fault), I received a APCOA parking fine, appealed on basis of first time offended, In the appeal I didn't state i was…

Hi all - firstly many thanks for your help over the years - have won many private PCNs and one council PCN where they were doing works and signage was poor. Now on Angel street manchester, where there are 2 e chargers in 2 of the bays, Ive displayed a disabled badge while charging (as ive done many times before). Ive come…

Hi, I just received a letter of claim from DCB in the post regarding a parking charge my dad incurred back in February 2025. Since then, we have received multiple letters from Debt Recovery Plus, CST Law, DCBL and now DCB. They had initially claimed we received 8 letters when we only received about 2 or 3 and even in the…

Hi all, I'm having great joy with Total Car Parks who name themselves as creditor on the Notice to Keeper. However it's not that simple. TCP are subcontracted for the site by County Car Parks who in turn are contractually bound to the landowner- So the big question is.. Who's the creditor? Thanks everyone.

Hi all, I use a local University sports centre which has a 2hr free parking run by First Parking. I have just got a notice of debt recovery from dbcl for £145, which I'm going to ignore as per the newbies threads etc. The offence was in mid April so at least 2 months ago However I have had no comunication at all from first…

Hi everyone, I’m hoping to get some advice here. I recently received a letter from DCBL saying they had tried to contact me at a previous address. Long story short, we forgot to update the address on our car’s logbook (this has now been corrected). They've since tracked down our current address and are now saying that,…

Hi all, I’m writing to seek your advice on responding to a DCB Legal 'Letter Before Claim' (LBC) regarding an alleged infraction that occurred on March 16, 2024, at Stansted Airport Starbucks (Southgate Park). I received this notice on the 16th of July, 2025, and waited for 5 days (my ‘Service’ date) to elapse so I can…

Hi All, Any help with this would be much appreciated, thanks in advance. Civil Enforcement LTD have started a MCOL against me. This is for parking at Marshall's Yard in Gainsborough. I suspect this is linked to a previous case that I had help with on here, despite the date being different (genuinely don't think anyone…

Good Afternoon I received a letter from CNBC regarding a parking offence which they claimed G24 has taken me to court. I have since read the forum provided by @Coupon-mad on how to respond to them. I have since submitted AOS via Mcol website and also submitted my defence as well. Today, I have received an acknowledgement…

Hello. I need some friendly advice and guidance as to how to deal with a PCN from a private car park operator. I believe where I parked was not subject to any parking charges, and about an hour or so after parking in this location I paid and parked in another location with clear signage (and have the evidence to prove I…

Hello, For context: A couple months ago I picked someone up from the East Midlands airport using the rapid drop off. It was late so I went to pay the day after and after getting through the whole process, the page just went blank and I just assumed payment went through and went on with my day. Cut to a month ago where the…

I have received this today in the post, what action should I take now, it seems incredibly excessive I have not responded to anything or identified a driver. Is the claimant correct? This is over two years old I I cannot recall the date let alone who always driving

Hi everyone, The parking ticket was issued when I was attending my GP surgery. At the time, I contacted the GP and they sent me a message confirming that I was parked there legitimately and that I should not need to pay the parking charge. I forwarded this information to the parking company, but they later responded saying…

Hello everyone, I am hoping someone can help me as I am really struggling with a private parking charge and do not know what to do next. Here is my situation: On 11th April 2026 I attended a private event at a Holiday Inn hotel in the Manchester area. The event was booked under a signed Event Agreement which clearly states…