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Smart Parking-DCB court claim
Hi, Your help would be hugely appreciated, please. I have only just found the letter but it is dated 27th August, so I will be late responding. The claim is dating back to August 2020, I have ignored all previous correspondence but until about a month ago I had not received any chasing letters for about 5 years. I don't…
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Sainsbury’s - Euro Car Parks fine (Overstay)
Hi, I’ve received a NtK by ECP as I have parked in Sainsbury’s past 16:00 on a Sunday. Their terms and conditions state that you are not allowed to park outside store hours. I have missed this as their terms and conditions are small and unreadable from 2-3 metres and you need to go under the sign to properly see. Their…
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ECP DCB Legal court claim 2025
On 21st March, I received a PCN from Euro Car Parks for parking in Chelmsford Meadows car park. The entry time was recorded as 24th February 2024 at 23:16:41, and the exit time was 25th February 2024 at 03:40:23. However, I live 27 miles from Chelmsford and was at home asleep during this time. It appears that my car has…
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Parking Fine Claims Form
Hello, First of all sorry for my newbie parking post. I am aware I may get some of
this wrong but I have genuinely tried to read all the guidance and started my
own thread as instructed. I am really grateful for the advice and help I have
already read. My details are vague as suggested in the sticky post. If you want
me to…
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Here we go again. Just received a letter from Civil National Business for parking ticket case 2
Thanks to this forum, I won a case against VCS 4 years ago. However, VCS still hasn't paid me. I’ll definitely be chasing them up to collect the payment from their lost court case. Today, I received a letter from HM Courts & Tribunals Service, Civil National Business Centre, regarding another parking case. Here are the…
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DCBL/Euro car parks question from a new member
Hello. I've received letters from DCBL in Feb, March, April, and May 2025 relating to an unpaid parking charge of £170 on behalf of Euro car parks for "parking longer that the max allowed period" in a coop car park back in Dec 2022. I have also received a letter from DCB Legal in June. And most recently a letter from…
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Elms Legal - Letter Before Claim
Hello All, I am hoping you can give me some advice. As registered keeper of a vehicle, I recieved a letter from Excel parking stating I had been parked illegally in a business park I was visiting for a meeting. I ignored this letter. I then received a 2 letters from DCBL debt recovery. I tried to phone these guys, but they…
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Luton airport PCN - paid online in accordance with the terms but mistakenly selected the wrong date
My partner picked me up in his car at the Luton Airport 5 minute drop off car park at 00:33, leaving at 00:35, on 05/09/2025. For this airport you pay online within 24 hours. I thought I had done this. Received a PCN just now from APCOA and in my anger/panic/frustration phoned them up to understand why the charge was sent,…
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Smart Parking PCN Issued in Scotland
Hi all, Just wondering how the appeal process works in Scotland? Any quick fix like in England? Used EV Charger in an overflow car park, no specific signage relating to Smart Parking etc. Car park was associated with Bannatyne gym but assume that EV charging is publicly available
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smart parking DCB legal ltd
Hi people is there anybody who could advise me on a the process im in a lot of physical and mental pain and my concentration is very limited. so far I have submitted the aos within the 14day time frame and now working within the 28 day window before a CCJ would have been issued against a parking fine from 2022 which I have…
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Stansted Airport Drop off/Pick up
Hi all, I used the Stansted Airport drop-off/pick-up area on Tuesday night, entering at around 23:45 and likely leaving within a few minutes—probably before midnight. As you know, payment is required online by midnight the next day. However, when I tried to pay, the website only offers payment options starting from 1:00am…
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Nexus taking me to court
I followed all the advice on the forum (I think) and I just got an email saying that they are proceeding with taking me to court. I really though from what everyone had said that they'd just drop it. I wish I'd paid it in the first place now! Really stressed about this now. Why haven't they backed down like everyone said…
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*Time sensitive* Just learned of CCJ against me and the payment deadline is tomorrow (12 Sep)
Hi everyone, I’ve just found out (yesterday evening) that I received a CCJ ruling for a parking charge from G24 (through DCB
Legal) and I’m stressing about what to do next. Sorry I haven’t had time to dig through all the links on the newbie post properly as I’ve only
just realised how tight my deadline is. However the post…
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POPLA Decision Southgate Park
A big shout out to Coupon Mad and the rest of the guys and girls that gave valuable advice and encouragement to take on MET PARKING. We Won ! DecisionSuccessfulAssessor NameStuart LumsdenAssessor summary of operator caseThe operator has issued the parking charge notice (PCN) due to parking without payment or…
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PCN from 2023 (gladstones) now at money claim stage
First off, I have recently had a parking fine from February this year cancelled with the help of this forum, thank you! This thread relates to a fine from 2023, Tesco car park, (horizon) now being pursued by Gladstones. I appealed at the time, it was rejected, naively I didn’t appeal to POPLA as I thought it would just go…
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bristowsutor / Penalty Charge Notice due to Transport for London
Hi, Hope someone can help, I have just received the following email requesting over £700! Should I assume this is genuine? They have the correct vehicle listed and I have driven in London before but I've not received any letters in the post. How did they even get my email?
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Britannia/DCB Legal PCN - CNBC Claim - Comments on defence answers 3 and 4 please
Hi everyone, I have read through all the newbies thread and understood
most of the process, and was hoping for some assistance with the date I have to
submit defence via email by and comment on my draft. I have calculated that I need to submit the defence by Sunday
22 March at 4pm. But does this get moved forward due to it…
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PCN for Camponile hotel - DCB Legal
Hello there, I'm hoping for some help with the draft defence against DCB Legal. Was parked in the Campanile hotel Runcorn without a ticket for 1-2 hours. Points I want to make in paragraph 3: *Occured late at night in Febraury around 10pm when dark and raining heavily, signage was not very readable - especially any written…
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Bristol Airport Free Waiting Zone Fine
We recently collected my sister in law from Bristol Airport, she was delayed waiting for baggage but we saw we could pay if we went over the hour. When she finally arrived the free waiting area was packed and we had to ask a taxi to move to let us out which resulted in us being just outside the hour and so had to pay £10.…
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Help with CCJ claim
Hi, I’ve received a CCJ claim letter dated 15/08/2025 for a Tesco parking breach. The situation was that I parked in a disabled spot and on the first letter I received it was for the correct Tesco store. However, every letter since and also on this claim letter they’ve kept stating that the breach of parking was at another…
