Writing to Private Clamping Company to Appeal

MX5huggy

I asked the estate agents in High Wycombe - who looked after the monies for the landlord - about listening to this saga and I was told "the landlords don't want to get involved"! Thus, I never knew who or where to contact.

A £3 search on the Landregistry will give you the land owners address.

Crabman

Hi folks, I've moved this thread over to MSE's new Parking Issues Board.

All the best with this Chairboy

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Paranoid

Central Parking Services Ltd
Sole Director Damien Haywood
11 Stiven Crescent
Harrow
HA2 9AX

Formerly Star Controlled Parking Ltd of the same address but with Damien's father (Mark) as Sole Director. Mark's girlfriend Theresa Constant was Company Secretary and Manager and has never had the SIA non-Frontline licence. Mark is illiterate and admitted in Court to selling "about" 10 cars a year without legal title. Including ours.

Useless to spend money sending bailiffs to registered office addresses as they are no more than a convenience to meet Company regulations.

Also successfully sued the landowners.

SCP changed their registered office 5 times during my case. Now in Truro...!

Any questions? Please ask.

discontented

It's a waste of time sueing them personally as they are a ltd company - try either sueing the land owner and report them to the SIA -I tried and got nowhere but they've got about 8 ccjs between Mark & Damien (Star & Central) and they are obviously cowboys

Chairboy_2

I would just like to thank everyone who has proffered advice and suggestions re-Central Parking Services and to Paranoid who PM'd me, just read 8th July.
I have only recently come out of hospital (from March) having had further spinal surgery resulting from a spread melanoma and so had not focused on this parking issue - the warrant date shortly to run out.
I was particularly interested to read the two 'fresh' posts above which tended to confirm my view on what hassle was involved. I will just have to add the outlay on to my daughter's degree costs - despite the bitter taste in my mouth!
If the adage: "God takes the best first", is correct, then there is a fair chance that these COWBOYS will make it to 100! Thanks everyone.

Silk

Hi Chairboy,
Theres an interesting Blog here http://cpsltd.blogspot.com/
plus http://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/news/1787356.0/?act=complaint&cid=714152#show

Quite a few addresses listed for you to send the Bailiffs to

Chairboy_2

Thanks Silk for that link. As per link, I experienced the same response from the SIA and also from CPS on my explanation appeal. They seem bombproof to me. It is M Hayward who issued the illegal notice and I guess after contacting the SIA, he is listed as 'licence 'expired' 8 July 2008 - number 0201100286661605, yet on the blog he has a different number. As someone else has pointed out, sending the bailiffs has brought little satisfaction other than adding to the penalty. If he has so many ccjs - it appears they are conveniently ignored. Anyway, thanks to those providing his Harrow address.

Paranoid

Central Parking Services Ltd were dissolved by Companies House on 11.08.09. CPS floated a "new" company three months earlier. Name is now Central Parking (Middlesex) Ltd. Both companies have same PO Box number, same mobile phone number and same sole director - Damien Haywood. Signs in car parks where they still nobble hapless motorists are very similar, except, of course, release fees are even more extortionate.

Registered offices are all addresses offered by Small Firms Services Ltd, of Coventry.

Damien Haywood also has another company Controlled Parking Management Ltd, formed in July 2009. Ready, perhaps, for the next reincarnation.

CPS had at least 5 CCJ's registered against them during the last year.

New companies are cheap to float (£25-£30) and it costs nothing to default prompting Companies House to initiate dissolution. Notice of dissolution is posted in The London Gazette three months previously, giving plenty of time to get the "new" company up and running.

Neat don't you think?

Crabman

Paranoid wrote: »

Neat don't you think?

Very :rolleyes:

All the more reason for people to name the landowner as a joint defendant in any court action to reclaim their losses

Paranoid

Yes, I agree Crabman. I did in my case but the judge only awarded us very small damages against the property company, which was paid. Naming the property company might at least alert them to the modus operandi of the clampers, and sack them, as happened in my case. The clampers owe us over £18,000 but readily escape by dissolution/new company ploy described earlier.....!