Uk Parking Control Ltd

peter_the_piper

Certainly follow up the lease/buy aspect and when you/they have seen the papers saying you/they own the strip tell the management company to call off UKPC as you/they do not wish to be in the "scheme"
Do this after you have cost the ppc money.

I can see the scenario if they ever tried to take it to court.
Judge:- Are you the owner of the land.
PPC:- No I am acting for the management.
Judge:- Who actually owns the land?
PPC:- The defendents relative.
Judge:- And is this relative asking you to invoice the defendent?
PPC:- No.
Judge:- Case dismissed and stop wasting my time.

zipman23

It has been almost a year to the day that I parked "illegally" at a multistorey car park at the Metro Centre in Gateshead and having just been telling my significant other that I hadn't had a letter about my "unpaid debt" for a while...lo and behold a letter arrived yesterday kindly reminding me of said "unpaid debt."

It reads...

Dear Mr XXXXX,

"You have still not paid the above debt. Unfortunately, this means we may recommend to our client that they should issue a claim against you in Court."

*YAAWN*

The telephone number they have listed for me to pay over the phone has 1 digit too many for a start but how long do they normally take before they decide to take you to court? Its been almost a year hahaha. Surely if this so called debt was genuine, I'd have been up before a judge by now??! They can jog on.

BretRiverboat

Hi all

I get the idea - do not reply to the letters - however I did sadly send a letter (before reading here) stating that I would not be paying a charge because I was not parked in a bay, and mine was the only car I have seen ticketed in the last 6 months I have been parking there.

They responded back as you all have said, telling me that the charge is valid.

My question is: If I have told them I was there, do they have the right to chase me for the charge?

Thanks all!

Stroma

Just ignore them and stop communicating to them. They will give and crawl back under the rock they crawled out of.

Coupon-mad

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sullysteve

Hi Guys,

I have had 2 tickets recently from the same spot. I havent paid but i have been told that the law changed in august last year and that they can enforce this. There is a link on the AA website saying DO NOT IGNORE the fine. Can someone just confirm that i wont obtain a CCJ from this? The thing is the car is registered in my brothers name so its his credit i'm worried about.

sullysteve

Oh and they are a member of the BPA.....

ManxRed

Nope.

1. Its not a fine, its a speculative invoice relating to a (purported) breach of contract.

2. There was a law change in Oct, not August. This law change meant that under certain criteria a private parking company may pursue a registered keeper for any charges that would have been liable to the driver. In the case of most private tickets, nothing was liable to the driver in the first place so nothing has changed.

3. Being a member of the BPA carries no legal weight at all. Its just a private members club for parking companies.

4. CCJs are obtained in the same way now as they always were. It needs a court claim, a win for the PPC, and then you still refuse to pay up. None of this will happen so the CCJ is not going to happen either.

5. Same goes for Credit Ratings. The only way someone's credit rating can be affected - other than defaulting on a credit or loan agreement - is via a successful court claim. Which isn't going to happen.

HOWEVER... it will be your brother who will receive all the hollow legally meaningless threatening letters from the parking company. If he's OK with this then fine, but if not, then YOU could appeal the ticket now, stating you were driving (but don't give them any more details than that) and then they have to send the letters to you.

And the YOU can ignore them.

fisherjim

sullysteve wrote: »

Hi Guys,

I have had 2 tickets recently from the same spot. I havent paid but i have been told that the law changed in august last year and that they can enforce this. There is a link on the AA website saying DO NOT IGNORE the fine. Can someone just confirm that i wont obtain a CCJ from this? The thing is the car is registered in my brothers name so its his credit i'm worried about.

The advice on the AA website looks like propaganda supporting the BPA it's dreadful in my opinion. http://www.theaa.com/public_affairs/reports/parking-tickets-private-land.html

sullysteve

so does that not really mean anything?