Private Parking Tickets discussion

MrsMulberry

Hello All
I am going through all this parking malarky at the moment . My car was parked in a Macky D car park . I was 2 cm (yes 2) over the white line . Got a ticket . I was in there approx half hour . I have not replied to Mett parking . I have recieved loads of letters . Funny thing is solicters letter are from the same address. lol (I have a vision of a man sitting at one desk with a mett hat on and then moving to another desk in the same room and changing his hat to a grahaem white solicter hat ) The letters are quite scary as they are ment to be but I am holing out on princeple .Stubbern as I am I dont really care if I go to court . But am still nervous .

MrsMulberry

meant to say my husband is the one getting the letters as he is the registered keeper. There is no photo of me driving the car only of it being parked .

shuggie58

My son had stopped at a service station on the M6, he stopped on a coach parking space, as he got out of the car, a man approached and gave him a ticket for parking in a coach bay, my son asked him if this was a wind up, as the car the man had got out of had a child strapped in it. The fine was for £80 but if he paid within 14 days it would only be £45. My son got back in the car with the ticket and drove off, it gives a time he had stopped and in the duration time it says N/A. This happened in Lancashire but the company is in London.
What should he do?

peter_the_piper

shuggie58 wrote: »

My son had stopped at a service station on the M6, he stopped on a coach parking space, as he got out of the car, a man approached and gave him a ticket for parking in a coach bay, my son asked him if this was a wind up, as the car the man had got out of had a child strapped in it. The fine was for £80 but if he paid within 14 days it would only be £45. My son got back in the car with the ticket and drove off, it gives a time he had stopped and in the duration time it says N/A. This happened in Lancashire but the company is in London.
What should he do?

File it in a deep drawer and forget it. As usual, don't contact them or reply confirming anything. The least said the quicker they give up.

peter_the_piper

digitalsgirl wrote: »

The thing is as I said in my post, we have paid, as this was about a months ago...but we are still suffering the consequence of losing the £50.
Is there anything we could do????

Sorry, I misread your post. Equally sorry to say thats the last you will see of the money. There is no way of getting it back once paid short of a small claims court but unfortunately this costs money to get going with no guarantee of success.

nevergivein

Anyone heard of Parking Control Services Ltd? I have much info on them but what I need to know is how to prove the one company owner works from home. Then Bailiffs will go there to carry out the Court Order and or seize goods The BPA and post forwarding agencies used will not give me information even though my MP has asked (the BPA) as they say they cant due to the Data Protection Act
Thanks for any helpful posts made to this question

Coblcris

Companies House will provide director reports for a very small fee. This can be done over the internet.
The BPA is mistaken at best, although I suspect that it is a more forthright cause in their case. There is a specific applicable exemption in the Data Protection Act .
I refer to S.35
Disclosures required by law or made in connection with legal proceedings etc.
35 — (1) Personal data are exempt from the non-disclosure provisions where the disclosure is required by or under any enactment, by any rule of law or by the order of a court.
(2) Personal data are exempt from the non-disclosure provisions where the disclosure is necessary
(a) for the purpose of, or in connection with, any legal proceedings (including prospective legal proceedings), or
(b) for the purpose of obtaining legal advice,

I suggest that anyone elsee who wishes to contact the BPA for such information does so in writing and quotes S.35 in full.
Make it clear to the BPA that you have prospective legal proceedings and that the BPA has to provide the information. There is no need to tell the BPA the exact nature of the prospective proceedings beyond 'a court case'.

If they refuse, which sadly I fear they will do despite the legislation, then innediately send a very forthright and firm complaint to the Infomation Commissioner.

I suggest for those unfamiliar with the Data Protection Act that a few minutes reading would be both illluminating and useful.
http://www.statutelaw.gov.uk/content.aspx?LegType=All+Primary&PageNumber=1&BrowseLetter=D&NavFrom=1&activeTextDocId=3190610&parentActiveTextDocId=3190610&showAllAttributes=0&hideCommentary=0&showProsp=0&suppressWarning=1

crazy_chic

I work in a Hospital i pay monthly to park my car on the hospital grounds (which by the way is a gravel pit where the staff park), if i am on a late shift there is no where on the staff parking to park i have to either park on the pay and display and pay AGAIN or park on the pay and display and not pay then i get a ticket, if i dont pay that ticket then the company are enpowered to take that fine out of my wages no questions asked i think this stinks members of the public can get away with it and good show to them too but staff cant

King_Drax_I

'Plus, when you sign anything, include a note that you are paying "under protest" to ensure it knows you don’t accept the legitimacy of the charge' - Main article.

I've always had a problem with the idea of declaring that you are paying 'Under protest'. Although it's never hapepned to me, I can imagine that the clampers are well used to people claiming this and will simply refuse to accept any cheque or other note saying 'signed under duress' or any other such thing. After all, they have your car, it's two in the morning, it's raining, and you're a single woman out on her own. Of course you want your car - now!! They simply have you by the short and curlies and they know it.

As if they're going to accept anything that says anything to do with under protest, duress, or anything.

Has anyone any real experience of this?

King_Drax_I

crazy_chic wrote: »

I work in a Hospital i pay monthly to park my car on the hospital grounds (which by the way is a gravel pit where the staff park)....

Sounds like a certain big Devon hospital? TB, perhaps?