HELP!!!!!!!!! uk parking control ltd

loulou73

Hi all need urgent help,went to mcdonalds on monday to meet a colleague,bought a breakfast and 2 coffees,colleague bought 2 coffees stayed for just over 2 hrs and now have got a parking ticket for £50 if i pay now or £100 if i dont pay until after 1/04/10.Cant believe it,apparently i am only allowed to stay for 75 mins.Should i pay them.Where do i stand?

Berkshiregirl

Ignore it, do nothing with it other than file it. I got one from them for parking in my own space at my own flat.

You'll get 3-4 with the bill going up and up, then a final one offering a payment of about half what they said you owed them as a "goodwill" attempt then they'll stop contacting you all together.

The worst thing you can do is to reply to them at all.

loulou73

thanks for your info but i have rang the mcdonalds in question and spoke with manager who has contacted company to get them to cancel the inforcement as i was in store as a buying customer and in future if i tell them i will be in there a while they email through your details to cancel the pcn before it gets issued.
Hope this helps.

DaveF327

Sounds like a promising outcome, but if you had a receipt for those breakfast items, keep it just in case the manager can't be bothered and the PPC do take you to court.

rev_henry

loulou73 wrote: »

thanks for your info but i have rang the mcdonalds in question and spoke with manager who has contacted company to get them to cancel the inforcement as i was in store as a buying customer and in future if i tell them i will be in there a while they email through your details to cancel the pcn before it gets issued.
Hope this helps.

Well that's good, but not really necessary to avoid paying, but WILL save you hassle!

sarahg1969

DaveF327 wrote: »

... just in case ... the PPC do take you to court.

Like that's going to happen.

robredz

DaveF327 wrote: »

Sounds like a promising outcome, but if you had a receipt for those breakfast items, keep it just in case the manager can't be bothered and the PPC do take you to court.

This is not a PCN in the same manner as a Council or Police FPN, they rely on the law of contract to ground their claim, if you ignore them it is highly unlikely they will waste their time and money going to county court, as it is a civil matter, check out pepipoo here for more info:

http://forums.pepipoo.com/index.php?autocom=ibwiki&cmd=article&id=56

DaveF327

sarahg1969 wrote: »

Like that's going to happen.

I know it's highly unlikely, but it has happened.

The infamous PCN-UK issued real court papers to a friend of mine, and after filing a defence, the judge decided there should be a hearing. A date was set, but PCN-UK chickened out and never paid the hearing fee so the case was struck out. The point is that some are becoming that bit more daring. I don't want to scare anybody, but I'd like to give them some confidence by advising to prepare for the worst.

NickWarren_2

As has been said, File it in the bin and forget about it.
These people rely on scaring you into paying. They won't take you to court. They have no intention, Too much effort for them.

Dr.Shoe_2

You just go to court and say that you were not the driver of the car.

darich

Dr.Shoe wrote: »

You just go to court and say that you were not the driver of the car.

So you're advising the op to lie under oath in court and risk jail for perverting the course of justice??

Ignore the correspondence....but I wouldn't advise lying in court.