CP Plus - have they actually successfully taken anyone to court

yellowbenzene

Hi, I am an A&E doctor and my local NHS trust has just contracted CP Plus to "manage" the enormous car park attached to the hospital where I work. Never mind that there are over 500 spaces and the car park is rarely full.

I am concerned about the threats promised by PPCs, but I have read several threads on here about how it's relatively safe to just ignore any letters I receive from CP Plus and their associates.

I plan to park in the car park as normal every shift, even if I do get a ticket. The situation is untenable where I work due to there being almost no public transport and I anticipate it will not last very long.

My question is: Will CP Plus take me to court if I have several unpaid tickets? Do any users here have experience of real action from PPCs like this?

AlexisV

CP Plus have never ever taken anyone to court.

Coupon-mad

AlexisV wrote: »

CP Plus have never ever taken anyone to court.

Seconded.

There is nothing to worry about, just collect the tickets like some posters on pepipoo forums do. Some people claim to have had hundreds of these bogus tickets.

Isn't it pointless of the Managers to use a PPC, it'll be the staff and elderly people who can least afford to pay who'll get the most of these mickey mouse tickets I bet. Can you spread the word to other staff that it really is safe to ignore these chancers?

Send people here or to pepipoo if they are concerned:

http://forums.pepipoo.com/index.php?showforum=30

And make sure they click the pepipoo link to the Watchdog programme that exposed this scam in May, so they know they can make paper aeroplanes out of these tickets.

yellowbenzene

a little bit worried that the NHS trust will take people to court over non-payment of fines.

anewman

yellowbenzene wrote: »

a little bit worried that the NHS trust will take people to court over non-payment of fines.

They tried and failed recently. Goes to prove even if your the NHS trust, the law works the way it should.

taffy056

Pathetic that NHS trusts in England are using shysters to scam people in car parks, i've said it before parking charges in hospitals are a tax on the sick and their visitors, disgusting behaviour !

Fyi in Wales all hospitals have free psrking for all including for staff.

landmark

anewman wrote: »

They tried and failed recently

You show me an NHS trust that has NOT failed and I'll eat my hat _party_

Bashy

landmark wrote: »

You show me an NHS trust that has NOT failed and I'll eat my hat _party_

Where you been for past few months head in the sand google it and see, Its wasnt that long ago a NHS hospital + PPC lost in court

AlexisV

I think you misunderstood landmark's post Bashy :-)

AlexisV

a little bit worried that the NHS trust will take people to court over non-payment of fines.

For a start they're not fines. Which is why the lost in court - private companies cannot fine people!

DaveF327

Just to play devil's advocate here, what's to say that PPCs won't start getting "clamp happy" during these last days it is still legal? If they know a practice is soon to be outlawed, I can see them all going on a mad clamping spree for as long as they still can.

Beware that a serial contravener whose car becomes known to the PPC may eventually fall victim to this. Just a thought...