New Generation Parking Cardiff, what do i do??

corsa0019

Hi,

i went out to pizza hut on the 16 of feb 2011 with my girlfriend then went to the cinema (odeon, which has its own carpark, red dragon centre) got back to my car and went home. did not see any signs where i parked(right outside pizza huts door!) but there was signs in other parts of this car park.

wake up this morning to a letter stating PARKING CHARGE NOTICE. from New Generation Parking, reason: NOT USING FACILITIES AT TIME OF PARKING

parking fines are as follows:

PARKING CHARGE NOTICE £75.00
REDUCED TO £65.00 IF PAID WITHIN 7 DAYS
8-14 DAYS = £75.00
15-28 = £125.00
OVER 28 DAYS = £150.00

if payment is not received within 28 days of this notice we reserve the right to take further action to recover this debt with interest. outstanding tickets will result in your vehicle being removed without further notice. vehicles may be immobilised whilst awaiting recovery vehicle.

Private Car Park - Conditions Apply
Private Property

Please do not park here unless you are using one of the complexes within the car park. parking only permitted for patrons to following businesses. Future Inns Hotel, Thomas Restauant, Pizza Hut, Miller & Carter

Maximum stay 2 hours
no return with 12 hours

please do not park in this car park in breach of the terms & conditions. Otherwise you are giving the authority to be issued with a parking charge notice/immobilised or towed away without further notice and agree to pay any fees incurred.

(as stated in the letter)

WHAT DO I DO??

Thanks

bargepole

corsa0019 wrote: »

... WHAT DO I DO??

Read some of the million-odd threads on here, and follow the advice given about a billion times - ignore their fake letters, there is no fine, you owe them nothing.

Don't phone them, don't write or email, and don't ever consider even for a microsecond ever paying them a penny.

taffy056

Well you are probably a bluebirds fan , and through clenched teeth I can happily advice you to ignore the cowboys completely, from a jack friend down west lol

trisontana

if payment is not received within 28 days of this notice we reserve the right to take further action to recover this debt with interest. outstanding tickets will result in your vehicle being removed without further notice. vehicles may be immobilised whilst awaiting recovery vehicle.

That would be an illegal act by them. It's against the law for a PPC to clamp or remove a vehicle over an alleged unpaid private parking ticket.

corsa0019

Great!! thank you so much for being helpful bargepole, taffy056, trisontana! made my day!!!

corsa0019

taffy056 wrote: »

Well you are probably a bluebirds fan , and through clenched teeth I can happily advice you to ignore the cowboys completely, from a jack friend down west lol

lol this made me laugh. thanks for the advice, i will just ignore these planks!

Surreystarlet

Did you get your car park ticket validated? I thought it was free to park there if you were visiting the cinema, but you had to have your car parking ticket validated by the cinema.

And I agree with the other posts on here - it would be illegal for them to tow your vehicle away in any case!

corsa0019

Surreystarlet wrote: »

Did you get your car park ticket validated? I thought it was free to park there if you were visiting the cinema, but you had to have your car parking ticket validated by the cinema.

And I agree with the other posts on here - it would be illegal for them to tow your vehicle away in any case!

the red dragon car park you need a ticket validated BUT where pizza hut and the hotel down the otherside do not share the same car park...

Coupon-mad

Old thread - stop reading.

Waste of time reading old threads, the advice changed ages ago in 2013!

Old thread - stop reading.

Waste of time reading old threads, the advice changed ages ago in 2013!

THE ADVICE IS NO LONGER TO IGNORE, GET ONTO PAGE ONE INSTEAD.

esmerobbo

Good God who do they think they are with that charge notice. Love to see them try and explain that as a justifiable charge!

So if they made no contact before 28 days you would owe them £150! 100% more then the original unenforceable charge! Who dreams these charges up?

desimodo

I was there on the same evening and got the same letter. I too did not see the signs and went to Future inn to get a brochure took a walk around the bay and grabbed a takeaway salad from Pizza Hut on my return. I am going to follow the advice of everyone and ignore it. A bunch of cowboys it seems.