Parking Ticket -

richardvc

My OH has been issued a Parking Ticket (it says 'ticket' at the top) for not displaying a valid ticket.

Sadly, it had fallen into the footwell and wasn't on display, and despite appealing, the fine still stands.:(

Has anyone got any advice if we can do anything further ?

It seems farcical that she has paid for the ticket and yet gets fined because it has fallen down - I understand that a ticket needs to be on display and yet when that is shown as proof, it is rejected.

Any help would be useful.

peter_the_piper

Please give a bit more information.
Was it a council parking ticket of a private parking company ticket?
have you contacted them?

richardvc

peter_the_piper wrote: »

Please give a bit more information.
Was it a council parking ticket of a private parking company ticket?
have you contacted them?

It was issued by a company called Capital2coast security who run the parking on behalf of the council in Burgess Hill, West Sussex.

We have contacted them as we appealed the issue of the ticket.

Coupon-mad

richardvc wrote: »

It was issued by a company called Capital2coast security who run the parking on behalf of the council in Burgess Hill, West Sussex.

We have contacted them as we appealed the issue of the ticket.

Do they? I am in Sussex and have never heard of them.

Does the PCN carry the Council logo and was the appeal to be directed to the Council?

Was this on street, or in a car park?

BTW I hope you're objecting to the proposed CPZ in Burgess Hill? Shocking proposal, IMHO just a way of making money and catching residents out (many tickets in CPZs are issued to residents whose permit falls down, just like you've described, or residents' relatives who are visiting but forget to run out with a Visitors' permit quick enough!).

richardvc

The ticket does not carry the council logo and the appeal was directed to Capital2Coast in Brighton.

We are checking if it is run on behalf of the council.

HO87

West Sussex CC operate CPE across the county and, as far as Burgess Hill is concerned, the only car park I can establish is not covered by this is the Market Place car park which is privately operated. C2C do not appear to operate under the terms of CPE (Civil Parking Enforcement) so unless you are certain about the fact that "they operate the car park for the council" it would seem that what you have is an unenforceable invoice that you can safely ignore.

[EDIT] - if you had to appeal to C2C then it is an invoice NOT anything else. Do not fall any further for the scam.

Coupon-mad

richardvc wrote: »

The ticket does not carry the council logo and the appeal was directed to Capital2Coast in Brighton.

We are checking if it is run on behalf of the council.

This is a scam then. Ignore the bogus ticket, you owe them nothing at all.

I have just Googled C2C and they are bullyboy clampers so you were lucky just to get a worthless ticket to make a paper aeroplane from. Maybe their clampers were busy elsewhere.

Read all of this forum result, very interesting with addresses of the brainless gits themselves:

http://www.spygun.com/?page_id=4379

DO NOT CORRESPOND WITH THIS SCUM ANY MORE.

richardvc

HO87 wrote: »

West Sussex CC operate CPE across the county and, as far as Burgess Hill is concerned, the only car park I can establish is not covered by this is the Market Place car park which is privately operated. C2C do not appear to operate under the terms of CPE (Civil Parking Enforcement) so unless you are certain about the fact that "they operate the car park for the council" it would seem that what you have is an unenforceable invoice that you can safely ignore.

[EDIT] - if you had to appeal to C2C then it is an invoice NOT anything else. Do not fall any further for the scam.

It is Market Place car park.

The ticket has Ticket on it though !!

AlexisV

Does it say Traffic Management Act 2004, or 1984 Excess Charge Notice anywhere on it?

If not, it'll just be a scam invoice which you can ignore.

mambo69

Even better if you still have the ticket scan it and then send it back saying here is my ticket, i fail to see what the charge is for therefore please leave me alone otherwise i will sue for harrasement

richardvc

Good Morning,

Thank you all for your help so far - apologies about the slow reply but I have been to work and my OH has been down and checked out the car park.

It is not, as we first thought, run on behalf of the council BUT run by Capital2Coast parking on behalf of Market Place - my OH photographed the boards in the car park and if I knew how, I would post them here.

I know all of you have said 'stuff the ticket' BUT I do have one major concern.

My OH has a clean credit record and on the 'failure of appeal' letter it says that 'the debt if not paid in full will be passed to our debt recovery agent for collection with further costs incurred'. This would be a catastrophe if this affected her credit worthiness by something as trivial as a parking ticket appearing as a non-payment !!

What should our next move be and what is the worst case scenario especially as they have our address etc ?

AlexisV wrote: »

Does it say Traffic Management Act 2004, or 1984 Excess Charge Notice anywhere on it?

If not, it'll just be a scam invoice which you can ignore.

No it doesn't have either on it !!