Private Parking Tickets discussion

jan_B_2

Not sure if I am doing this right and it may not be in the right place as I can't find where to start a new question!!! It's my first attempt! How does a private parking company get to know your address if you don't write and give it to them? Surely DVLA info is data protected? Thanks Jan

peter_the_piper

Welcome Jan B, not its not data protected unless you don't want to pay the £2.50 they charge for the info. They make millions out of this. Don't forget that they only know the registered keeper and not the driver. The two are not necessarily the same.
Have a good read of the various posts, 99% of them are about private parking tickets and how they are not worth the paper they are written on.

AlexisV

Anybody can buy anybody's address for £2.50.

Are you a burglar? Do you see a nice Ferrari in the street? With one simple payment you can ask the DVLA where that car is kept and pay his Cheshire mansion a visit in the dead of night.

Blame the last government.

HO87

AlexisV wrote: »

Anybody can buy anybody's address for £2.50.

Are you a burglar? Do you see a nice Ferrari in the street? With one simple payment you can ask the DVLA where that car is kept and pay his Cheshire mansion a visit in the dead of night.

Blame the last government.

In principle I don't disagree but any application has to pass the "reasonable cause" test. I personally have had applications refused and before anyone assumes I'm one of Perky's mates (I don't like pies anyway) they were in relation to accidents I dealt with while at my previous employer.

Sir_Roger_deLodger

HO87 wrote: »

....and before anyone assumes I'm one of Perky's mates.....

We don't. He hasn't got any. :D

peter_the_piper

No chance of you being a mate of Perkys, you've posted more than 20 times.

AlexisV

In principle I don't disagree but any application has to pass the "reasonable cause" test. I personally have had applications refused

Anyone can make up a reasonable cause though. Burglar Bill can just write that the car damaged his property and he wants to talk to the keeper on his v888.

Crabman

AlexisV wrote: »

Blame the last government.

Has the new government made any promising noises on this subject yet?

Coupon-mad

AlexisV wrote: »

Anyone can make up a reasonable cause though. Burglar Bill can just write that the car damaged his property and he wants to talk to the keeper on his v888.

Would it be a good way of getting a real address for a clamping firm, I wonder, rather than a PO Box?

If people made a point of writing down the clamping van and tow truck numbers, they could ask the DVLA for the keeper's details alleging 'damage to their own vehicle in x car park' therefore they need the keeper's addy.

On pepipoo, if this could be done for each clamping firm, the real addy could be divulged by pm to each new victim. However I suspect the data could not lawfully be stored or shared in that way, so people may have to just do this on a case by case basis.

Zoee

Hi there forum readers

Perhaps this question has been asked and answered somewhere within the 1793 posts so far and if the answer is here in this thread, possible to point me to the posting number? I would be very grateful:)

The background to my question is:
I've been issued with a PCN for £60 by a high street supermarket's car park firm. They say I have until the 17 Aug 2010 to pay up. I was not the driver at the time of the offence and when I requested photographic evidence of the driver, all I received back was

1) enlarged 'evidence' of my car front and back registration plates.

2) a letter saying "as the registered keeper, you are required by law to know the whereabouts of your vehicle and in whose responsibility you leave your vehicle while not driving it yourself"

3) and "the site is monitored by ANPR cameras, which are designed to take photographs of vehicles entering and exiting the car park. As such our camera system does not detect whom the driver is"

My question is:
I've read too late the information on this site, about not saying that you're appealing where instead you're suppose to say that you're refusing to pay.

So does this mean that when I spoke on the phone requesting what is their appeals procedure and verbally confirmed my name, address and the PCN number, have I unknowingly admitted that the PCN is correct?

And is it too late, to send off the 'I wasn't driving letter' that Martin has provided on this site?


Any advice is appreciated

Thanks
Zoe