PCN Excel Parking - Media City Salford Quays

karen_4444

trisontana wrote: »

Still worrying?

Excel are definitely a private parking company. There is a remote possibility that they are monitoring the car-park on behalf of the council, but that's very unlikely.

Hi..........just wondering if you know what would happen if excel were monitoring a car park for the council?................Would they then have a case to go to court?

Thanks

taffy056

karen_4444 wrote: »

Hi..........just wondering if you know what would happen if excel were monitoring a car park for the council?................Would they then have a case to go to court?

Thanks

If they are acting for a council you will see 'Penalty Charge Notice' on the ticket together with logos of the council, plus you will appeal to the council and pay them direct. You will know if you get one of them, and it should never be ignored.

esmerobbo

karen_4444 wrote: »

Hi..........just wondering if you know what would happen if excel were monitoring a car park for the council?................Would they then have a case to go to court?

Thanks

Even if Excel were acting for a council, non payment would not go to court as parking is decriminalised. If they are controlling a council owned car park, the tickets would most likely be private. Unless as Taffy said it said "Penalty" or "Excess" and the payment was made to the council.

A few councils are handing control over to private companies to save costs, but they are usually then a private concern with no official regulation. (However legitimate parking charges should still be paid)

If you don't pay an official penalty/excess charge it will be passed to Northampton TEC which is a sort of rubber stamping county court, were a charge certificate will be issued then if you don't pay that a order of recovery, then if still unpaid bailiffs! Hence why we always say deal with an official ticket ASAP.

Alexis27

I'm not aware of Excel carrying out any council PCN contracts.

Coupon-mad

Alexis27 wrote: »

I'm not aware of Excel carrying out any council PCN contracts.

Nor me, they only act in a scamming PPC capacity AFAIK.

FLAPJACK

I wonder if EXCEL are employed by PEEL HOLDINGS.

PEEL HOLDINGS own most of Media City....the BBC are paying rent for their new operation on Salford Quays (and their staff have to pay to park .....so could be a link).

I am pretty sure that PH rent out a lot of apartments there too....maybe the poster who is disabled should approach them as the LL.

I'm sure I have read here that only a cop or traffic warden issued tickets should not be ignored as they are issued under the Traffic Act of whatever year....this is stated on their tickets too. But not to my knowledge on tickets issued in private car parks. Thus making parking in a private car park a civil matter and parking on double yellow lines a unlawful matter.

This is why the police do not get involved with the dispreputible car park at Haworth because it is private i.e a civil matter.

Steve_xx

I've read this thread with interest. Mainly because I wanted to find out if my Mum could park free, using her blue badge, at Media City free of charge and close to the BBC studios, but it appears not as the roads etc are owned, apparently by Peel Holdings. But there's nothing to distinguish them from an ordinary public road and so I would think that many blue badge holder could come unstuck if they park on their roads.

I note that posters on here are advocating that these non PCN charge notices should be ignored because they are not authorised by any particular body or council. I just wondered that if one did choose to ignore it whether or not there was a potential for one's credit rating history to be adversely marked/impaired due to non-payment?

ManxRed

You cannot affect someone's credit rating history unless they have (a) breached a consumer credit agreement with the company in question (so this won't apply) or (b) had a CCJ awarded against them which they have then failed to settle (this won't apply either).

So no, there is no potential whatsoever for anyone falling foul of private parking to have their credit history affected in any way through non-payment.

Steve_xx

ManxRed wrote: »

You cannot affect someone's credit rating history unless they have (a) breached a consumer credit agreement with the company in question (so this won't apply) or (b) had a CCJ awarded against them which they have then failed to settle (this won't apply either).

So no, there is no potential whatsoever for anyone falling foul of private parking to have their credit history affected in any way through non-payment.

Many thanks for clarifying that point. It would be horrendous if non-payment of one of these spurious fines could have an affect on your credit rating I guess.

At Media City the roads look like any other and so a disabled, blue badge user could easily park there, displaying a blue badge and then be fined. It's not a very good situation there for disabled people I think. There must have been some incidences of disabled drivers parking on those roads but it seems that other than the poster on here who lives there, that nobody else has been affected.

ManxRed

They ought to be clearly signed, if not then issuing parking charges in respect of parking 'contraventions' of any kind would be in breach of tha BPA Code of Practice. In reality this doesn't mean a lot (the BPA are a thieves guld effectively) however the DVLA take a pretty dim view of breaches by BPA members.