Unfair Parking Fine

reeny1

Hi,

On saturday I got a £100 parking fine from Premier Parking. My partner lives in a block of flats on a busy road in Exeter. I was picking him up and he had lots of bags, the road he lives on is very busy, and I thought it may be dangerous loading up the car on the road whilst cars whizz past. There is a car park under the flats, most of this car park is behind barriers, and you need a pass to enter. There are about 10 spaces that dont have barrier entry.. I thought it would be ok to leave my car here for a couple of minutes whilst we go up get his bags, and then load up. In the car park there is an office, I knocked on to ask if it was ok, but no came out. In the corner I could see someone in a car watching me, I smiled at them and thought nothing of it. There was also another person loading up a car, because students live in these flats too, and he was dropping his daughter off. I left a note on my car. I was gone for no more than 5 minutes and came back to find a penalty thing on my window, as did the man who was dropping his daughter off.
Can they do this? My partner lives in these flats. Also, surely it is safer to load up a car here, than on a main road that could potentially cause an accident. The most annoying thing is the fact that I am 100% sure the woman in the car in the corner gave me the ticket and was just waiting for me to leave my car, and pounce! Surely she should have warned me not to park there.
Any advice would be appreciated, I really dont want to pay this.

AlexisV

It's not a fine, it's a speculative invoice from a private company. Simply ignore them and all the threatening junk mail they'll send to the registered keeper.

reeny1

Thanks for your reply. I went on their website, and the only thing that got me a bit worried was this -

''With regards to our ongoing enforcement services against those drivers who do not pay their outstanding Parking Charge Notices (PCNs), PPS have just obtained a number of County Court judgements and admissions in the following cases:''

They list about 42 cases.

Is this just more scaremongering?

bromsgrovebarry

In a nutshell, yes. I know it all looks scary because these scammers can only use fear to extort money. There is no legal validity to their bogus 'fines'. Believe me, I make a habit of ignoring Mickey Mouse threatmail from Private Parking scammers.

Sir_Roger_deLodger

reeny1 wrote: »

Thanks for your reply. I went on their website, and the only thing that got me a bit worried was this -

''With regards to our ongoing enforcement services against those drivers who do not pay their outstanding Parking Charge Notices (PCNs), PPS have just obtained a number of County Court judgements and admissions in the following cases:''

They list about 42 cases.

Is this just more scaremongering?

If 42 people had really been taken to court by these idiots I think we would have heard about it.
They are telling porkies, ignore them.

McKneff

Dont you see, in your post quoting them, they say 'drivers' they could only take the 'driver' to court, they dont know who the driver, they can only get the registered keepers name from dvlc, and you are under no obligation to tell them who the driver is so completely ignore them, scammers, all of them.

Dont worry.

AlexisV

reeny1 wrote: »

Thanks for your reply. I went on their website, and the only thing that got me a bit worried was this -

''With regards to our ongoing enforcement services against those drivers who do not pay their outstanding Parking Charge Notices (PCNs), PPS have just obtained a number of County Court judgements and admissions in the following cases:''

They list about 42 cases.

Is this just more scaremongering?

They're lies. I'd say it was more an issue of fraud.

Sirdan

reeny1 wrote: »

Thanks for your reply. I went on their website, and the only thing that got me a bit worried was this -

''With regards to our ongoing enforcement services against those drivers who do not pay their outstanding Parking Charge Notices (PCNs), PPS have just obtained a number of County Court judgements and admissions in the following cases:''

They list about 42 cases.

Is this just more scaremongering?

Nice try PPS but you're not fooling us ..""admissions" ..so that will be drivers who folded and paid prior to any proceedings ...so out of the 42 how many were real CCJs and how many were "admissions" ?

(I think I could make an educated guess )

Trebor16

I wonder which bunch of scammers it is?

sparky1989

Think the clue is in the first dozen or so word of OPs post "Premier Parking"

Trebor16

sparky1989 wrote: »

Think the clue is in the first dozen or so word of OPs post "Premier Parking"

Doh!!! Just re-read it:D