Ticket in my flat car park

special_spud

Hi. I am new to this and I need some help!
I live in a flat for which I pay a mortgage and maintenance fee. My flat comes with a parking space.
The management company that I pay my maintenance fee to contracted a company called 14 services to enforce the parking in the car park.
My mistake totally; I forgot to put my permit on my windscreen and I got a ticket (I was parked in my own space). I wrote to them explaining and respectfully asked that my fine be cancelled, they denied my appeal.
I really dont know what to do now, I know the advice is always to ignore it and not pay cand they will go away but I am in ajob that if I got a CCJ I would lose my job.
Please can someone help me. Im really panicking.
Thanks

Enfieldian

Please read threads on Private Parking Tickets.

You have nothing to worry about.

Edited to include: You say that you know what the advice is but you are asking for help? I am confused.com

What more do you want?

special_spud

Thanks for the answer. I guess I just wanted to some extra confirmation that I am doing the right thing! Im really worried and thought maybe 14 services were different?

Coupon-mad

special_spud wrote: »

Thanks for the answer. I guess I just wanted to some extra confirmation that I am doing the right thing! Im really worried and thought maybe 14 services were different?

No, they are no different. You can safely ignore them, honestly. Don't pay, it's a scam!

They cannot just apply for a CCJ, whatever their threatening letters might suggest.

For you to get a CCJ, the procedure would have to be ALL of the following:

1). The PPC takes you to Small Claims Court (almost unheard of as they'd lose)

2). The judge finds in their favour (not going to happen if you turned up with your permit)

3). Then you refuse to pay the Court-ordered payment in the allotted time (why would you?)

4). ONLY then can the PPC can get a CCJ against you to force you to then pay up.


Can you see why a CCJ would never happen in this scenario?

Apart from the fact PPCs don't do Court, if they ever did and then let's say that situation (2). above somehow, extraordinarily, actually happened, well you'd accept the findings of the Court and pay at that stage wouldn't you?! In which case it wouldn't get to stage 3), = no CCJ!

The fact you forgot to display your permit doesn't suddenly mean you were temporarily not authorised to park there. You were still authorised, you live there and you have paid for a permit. Almost certainly your lease allows you to park there, in fact if the lease pre-dates the stupid permit scheme then it's very possible the permit scheme is unenforceable anyway.

Why have they got a bunch of scumbags 'policing' the spaces anyway?

special_spud

Thanks! Im feeling better about it now. Ill hang on and hope they leave me alone!!!
Thanks again for the replies, Im loving the support and will be posting more in the future.

taffy056

Please don't fall into their trap, these people are trying to scam you out of money that they legally not entitled too. They will try to intimidate you with debt collector letters and solicitor letters, understand this, they are bogus and often come from the same address as the scammers, these people do not do court as its a waste of time and money for them, they look for soft targets, you i'm sure will not be one of them. Just come back when you get further letters if you wish

mc2705

Exactly the same thing happened to me. I was parked in my parking space but had taken out my permit as I was getting the car scrapped the next day. The scrap bloke who came to get the car noticed that there was a "fine" on my windscreen.

I wrote to appeal and told them the facts (it was my space, the permit was removed because the car was being scrapped etc). They wrote back to say my appeal was unsuccessful but thanks to this forum, I just ignored them. I only ever received the one letter as it was probably obvious to them that I wasn’t going to pay a "fine" for the use of my own parking space!

Interestingly a couple of months later my buzzer went. A very rude man was at the door telling me that if I paid £50 now he would not bother putting a ticket on my car. I was confused as I don’t own a car anymore (but am still entitled to the parking space). No matter what I said he was adamant that I owed him £50 and couldn’t seem to get it into his thick head that somebody else had parked there. I just hung up the intercom in the end!

Anyway I saw him leaving the car park in his works van with his mate and noticed that they were both smoking. I am not the sort to grass people up for that sort of thing, but I took great pleasure in reporting him to Smokefree England.

peter_the_piper

Why not phone/notify the parking firm to say he was after a parking fee without giving you a ticket, thus depriving them of £50. (beer money)