Private Parking Tickets discussion

queenbee123

i agree, ignore the letters then they eventually give up!

bargepole wrote: »

Well done on getting the Private Parking Tickets Guide on the site.

I'm not sure I agree with sending all those letters that Martin suggests. If you engage in correspondence with the PPC, they will often think they've got a fish on the hook, and keep pestering you for longer.

If you ignore all correspondence, they will have no idea whether the registered keeper was the driver or not, and will be extremely unlikely to risk paying £30 for a court claim, only to find out it wasn't.

There are no known cases of a PPC taking anyone to court when no contact has been made. But there have been cases where a PPC has identified a driver from a posting on an internet forum, so be careful what you write!

daveyjp

In a similar vein to the poster about the flats above, last week we visited a local restaurant. It has a dedicated car park, but is also close to a busy shopping centre so they have trouble with non customers using the car park.

Lots of PPC signs have appeared, some have been altered to say parking is for staff and customers then usual guff about the terms of the contract. Others haven't been altered and state the parking is for permit holders only.

On entering the restaurant they now have a book and you have to enter your car reg. When asked if we had parked in the car park I said yes, but refused to enter my reg in the book - the waitress didn't know what to say, I said I had nothing against the restaurant, but I had a lot of issues over PPCs - this went over her head. All she could say was if I didn't fill the book in I'd get a ticket.

I refused, spent over an hour in there, but I didn't get a ticket - I was most upset!! Imagine going to Court with that one!

Crabman

essex-kel wrote: »

hi ill try to keep it short!! i live in a housing assosiation property with a private residents car park for which we have permits. about a week and a half ago i parked my car as normal outside my gate and the security firm (which appear once a year!) appeared i had to run in my house and retrieve my permit from my kitchen,i said i would be 5 mins which i was i came back out and he had clamped me. I refused to pay and 5 days later they towed my car away. This morning he hammered on my door asking for £1000 i laughed and told him to clear off he was very rude and abrubt i was a bit scared being on my own anyway he threw a form at me and told me to sign it and took my car key he asked for the log book which i refused. My question is what can i do now? can i fight for my car back which i know is not worth much but its the princible i asked to clear the car and he said no way! im really angry! can they get away with what they done? thanks kelly

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trisontana

Another victory against the clampers:-

£83 victory for common sense

trisontana

To add balance to the above I am afraid that I have to report this:-

Court told of signs in parking wrangle

I wonder how that happened?

bargepole

trisontana wrote: »

To add balance to the above I am afraid that I have to report this:-

Court told of signs in parking wrangle

I wonder how that happened?

Yes, another one to chalk up for the Pie-Eater, but then if you go to court with a rubbish defence like "I didn't see the signs", and they can prove you did, you're going to be fighting a losing battle.

trisontana

bargepole wrote: »

Yes, another one to chalk up for the Pie-Eater, but then if you go to court with a rubbish defence like "I didn't see the signs", and they can prove you did, you're going to be fighting a losing battle.

If she had introduced the matter of unfair penalties (as in the Mansfield case), then I imagine the case would have gone the other way.

Coblcris

The judge's statement, if accurate of "It looks like a parking ticket to me" is enough to overturn the case in its own right in my opinion. Additionally it is enough to start a true investigation of this company under various Consumer Regulations.
Absent the full facts one has to conclude that there will be other appeal points.

jimisex

I parked on a private road by accident, and the guy who owned the road had my car towed. The towing company wouldn't release it unless I paid £206, which I did. Do I have any way of recouping this money?

Oopsadaisy

Yes, read lots of the other threads on here and go tp pepipoo.......

Basically sue the firm and the land owner.....piece of cake.