Private Parking Tickets discussion

AndEllis

Hi there,

I'm a noob looking for help please. When moving I was issued a ticket on some pretty much deserted private land but private land nonetheless. It was for £100 but £50 if I paid within 14 days. There was no signage around where I parked but there was signage at the beginning of the street where I did not think to look. The ticked was from MET parking services.

I felt hard done by as there was a loack of signage, however I was ultimately in the wrong i guess. Reading this guide I have ignored it but they wrote to me with a £100 fine and then with a £125 14 days later. It goes up £125 each 14 days from now on and I'm getting nervous. Can someone please advise whether I should:

Pay up now and take the £125 fine.
Continue to ignore them.
Appeal on the grounds of not enough signage.

Thanks so much in advance for any help.

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peter_the_piper

1) no
2)yes
3) ever so no.

Nikki_Morgan04

Hello, I'm hoping someone may be able to help me out on this one.

I recieved a 'parking ticket' for parking in a hospital car park. I work at the hospital in question as a student nurse and have a valid staff parking permit. However, one day I returned to my car to find a big yellow sticker slapped on my windscreen.

Turns out I was infact parked in a visitor car park. A inadequatly signposted visitor carpark may I add!

Anyway my question is, the 'ticket' has NHS written all over it, is this ticket a private firm? I'd assume it was private, I imagine the NHS hire out contractors to ticket people in the hospital carpark. What does everyone else think?

daveyjp

Who wants the payment?

If it's not the police or local Council ignore and wait for the letters.

MissSmith_2

On 28/02/2010, my car was clamped on Pembury Estate, Hackney by London Parking Control Ltd. I had thought that the place in which I had parked was 'safe' as there were no notices around my chosen parking area. I paid the £125 release fee at that point, the immobilising officer told me to appeal as there were no signs in that area.

I made an enquiry with SIA to check that the licence number on the receipt was valid and it was, along with the correct license holder name.

I sent a letter of appeal to London Parking Control on 16/03/2010 asking for my money to be refunded. To which they replied refusing to do so, with 'photographic evidence' highlighting the signs on the estate (no where near where I had parked).

I issued a claim online through HMCS Money Claim Online on 12/04/2010 against LPC and the landowner Peabody Trust. To which I received a defence from LPC disputing the claim in full!

I now have to pay a court issue fee and send the questionnaire back to the court. Do you think I have a case or should I opt to settle through a mediator and forget it?

Any help and/or advice would be greatly appreciated!

peter_the_piper

First please start a separate thread as the answers on here will get lost in all the others. Second, go back to site and get copious photo's of the area where you were parked and lon distance showing the nearest sign compared to your place.Also post this on pepipoo.com as there are more people online able to help you.

Hayley_McCulloch

Don't pay - you will next get a letter from Roxburghe's solicitors -Graham White Solicitors, Surrey - they are one of the same company - don't even bother phoning them - they are as cold as ice - especially Monica ! I have recently received a Notice of Intended Prosecution from Graham White Solicitors. My charges as they stand at the moment with Roxburghe are now £182; however Graham Whites are threatening that their fees will be added which are just over £207 - my solicitor has now sent Central Ticketing, Roxburghe and Graham White's a letter which basically states that what they are doing is unlawful - you cannot get a CCJ and they cannot send you to Court. My solicitor is asking as to what criteria Central Ticketing are working to when stating that an appeal has been unsuccessful and why their so called criteria, if they have one, is not explained in their correspondence. I will keep people posted as to the response my solicitors received - oh, by the way, I work at the solicitors office so this is not going to cost me anything!

Oopsadaisy

Hayley, why are you wasting your money on a solicitor?

The solicitor is ripping you off - in that they should have told you to merely ignore everything [job done for £20], but instead they are writing letters on your behalf [cost £300].

The letters will be ignored by the scammers, and presumably your solicitor will charge you again to tell you they haven't had a response.

Ignore, don't pay a solicitor, ignore, don't write to anyone, ignore.

trisontana

Oopsadaisy wrote: »

Hayley, why are you wasting your money on a solicitor?

The solicitor is ripping you off - in that they should have told you to merely ignore everything [job done for £20], but instead they are writing letters on your behalf [cost £300].

The letters will be ignored by the scammers, and presumably your solicitor will charge you again to tell you they haven't had a response.

Ignore, don't pay a solicitor, ignore, don't write to anyone, ignore.

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oh, by the way, I work at the solicitors office so this is not going to cost me anything!

White_Jaguar

Does anyone know if it is a legal requirement in Scotland to receive permission from 100% of residents, who are also the landowners, and not just a majority, before a PPC can be instructed by a Factor to 'police' the parking in a residential complex.