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Smart Parking Parking Charge Query
Hi, can I just check my understanding re NTK Parking charge (postal only). Alleged contravention 3/8. Issue date 6/10. Smart Parking should have followed POFA and therefore cannot prove keeper liability as notice not issued within 14 days? Q is do I just ignore or respond pointing the above out and decline to identify…
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PayByPhone - NCP PCN - PAID PARKING for 1 DAY but PEAK TIME NOT INCLUDED
Hi everyone, I’ve read the Newbies Sticky Thread and noticed that Crabman mentioned that appeals using the template are now being routinely rejected, so I’d like to make sure I handle this correctly. In a nutshell, this is what happened: My wife travelled to London by train on 14th October and parked at Ely Train Station,…
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Got a parking ticket while charging my EV – unclear signage about paying for both charging and parki
I recently got a parking ticket while charging my electric vehicle in a car park. The signage was really unclear, it seemed to imply that paying for charging covered the time I was parked there. Only after getting the fine did I realise they apparently expect you to pay both for the parking and for the charging. Here are…
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G24 DCB Legal court claim
Hi All Posted about this some years ago and at the time I got advised to ignore, which I did. Have had a read of the newbies thread but just wanted clarification on a few things: Backstory * Received parking fine from G24 for staying in Attercliffe/Meadowhall Retail park 9 minutes over the allotted 3 free hours. Dated 7th…
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Letter before Action - Civil Enforcement
Hi All, Been trying to fight my way through the various chats and posts but failed to see clearly what to do with an LBA. This dates back tio over a year ago and out of the blue they have sent me one. Worst still I thouyght I had naother week but the cheeky buggers have dated their letter 13th October even though I did not…
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Claim form only contains initial, not first name.
Hi there,Just wondering if anyone has any guidence. I am helping a friend who has a County Court claim form and she needs to file acknowlegement of service. The claim form and the parking charge notices have all been addressed to her with just Initial and last name. She did appeal initially and acknowledged to being the…
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UKPC Parking Charge Notice - Misleading Parking
Good afternoon, I am writing in the hope that someone might be able to advise. I have received a notice as keeper for parking at a car park with the reason being "Registered users only" (it's very vague). She had intended to park at the parking for Bracknell Station, but just next to it is another multi-storey car park…
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POPLA rejection
Hi Newbie here so please be gentle, short background of PCN parked in Poole Quayside carpark(Brittana carparks) over Christmas.I Paid £5 something to park which I thought was for 4 hrs, but it turned out it was only for 3hrs. I got sent a letter stating id overstayed my parking by 27 minutes. £100 or £60 if you paid within…
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DCB Legal - Euro Car Parks
Had a letter from DCBL in early June in relation to an alleged parking contravention all the way back to February 2023! I have absolutely no recollection of being at the car park. To my knowledge that was the first piece of correspondence I had received. This may be because I moved house and sold the car a couple of months…
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Court Case Coming Soon - Helping Elderly Man & Need Some Advice Please
Hello, I have just started helping an elderly gentlemen with a court claim from National Parking Management (NPM), He's a bit scatty, can't ready very well & lost most of the documents including the court documents. If anyone can give any ideas or guidence , it would be appreciated as I'm not sure what to do. He is the…
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Parkling Charge Notice (UKPS) – Dragon Retail Park Cardiff
Hi, On Saturday, I received one of these letters from UKPS (see attached): I have read through a lot of these posts, including the Newbies section, but wanted to start my own thread to ask a couple of questions before appealing. On the day in question, I had an appointment booked at the Ford car dealership next door to the…
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HMCTS Letter - Fake or Real?
Hi There My Daughter has received a letter apparently from the HMCTS but there is no PoC on it and it doesn't look very cosha. Could somebody help or advise as to it's legitimacy or can it be ignored. She has been chased for an alleged parking offence with many letters over the course of the last 2 years which she had…
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Overstayed Car Park
I have read the NEWBIE guide but I am still unsure which path to go down. To cut to the cake, the parked vehicle overstayed by 12 minutes and 19 seconds and received a parking fine for £100 (reduced to £60 in 14 days nonsense). It was issued by Parking Group Ltd. Specifics: Entry: 20:08:22Paid session: 20:10–22:10 (proof…
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G24 small claims
Hi, I received a county court claim from g24 ltd in april this year for a parking charge from June 2019 to which i replied in the post with: Dear Court Manager, I am writing in reference to the above Claim M******, which i understand has been issued against me in connection with an alleged unpaid parking charge. i wish to…
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Carflow PCN notice.
Hi, Just wanting some quick advice on whether it is worth appealling a PCN notice I received. I paid for 2 hours and yes I was 20 minutes late due to my mother being discharged from hospital. When I got back to the car and realised, I went on the app and tried to extend my parking but was unable to. Probably stupidly, I…
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Letter of claim after legitimate parking at petrol station! DCB legal
hi all, long time lurker and have followed advice on the newbies threads and other peoples posts but unfortunately for me, have now got to the point where i think i will be needing your support with this "ticket". for a bit of history around this- In 2023, my bmw went to a Petrol station run by MFG which offered car jet…
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Help - Anything i need to add/remove to defence?
So i received a CST Law letter back in September/October for a fine of £170 for a parking offence in Feb 2022. All details were sent to my old address so this was the first letter I received after they obtained my new address from DVLA. I initially made contact to ask for details about the offence etc however when i called…
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DCB Legal - Case Struck Out
Hi, I’ve not posted on
here before but am very grateful for the excellent advice that has been made
available (thanks to @CouponMad and @Umkomaas). I’ve had a ParkingEye PCN dating from 2020 that was passed on to DCB
Legal. I ignored their letters and calls until receiving the notice from the
Small Claims Court (Mar-25). I…
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REVIVING THE PRIVATE PARKING BILL
Progress by DLUHC on the Private Parking Code of Practice has been abysmal and is now at a complete standstill until after the General Election. BPA & IPC continue to thwart the will of Parliament, most recently by publishing their homebrew Code which ignores all of the main "teeth" that the 'proper' Code should…
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UKPC / DCB Legal - defence draft, please advice
I'm fighting a UKPC /DCB Legal claim. The vehicle in question was parked at some retail park XX. However the contract submitted by UKPC during POPLA suggests that there are two distinct car parks there: XX - Car Park 1 and XX - Car Park 2. While they issued the PC under Car Park 1, the vehicle was actually parked in Car…
