Legion Group parking charge - advice please.

tenham

Hi,
I have received a letter by post from "legion Group - A division of OCS Group Ltd" stating that as i am the registered keeper of my car (which i have recently sold) that i have a parking charge notice.
The story - The letter states that i parked my car in breach of regualtions displayed and that i have not responded to a notice that was affixed to my vehicle. I have not seen or aware of this notice. I was parked at my place of work (a hospital) during a night shift.
Im not sure where i stand with regards to this "fine" and of course my place of work. The letter states that a "failure to pay will result in Debt recovery and/ or Court Action being taken to recover unpaid parking charges".
The charge is £30.
So, my question - do i have to pay?
Thanks in advance for your help.

27col

Good question. Short answer. No!
There won't be any court action or any other action, apart from a few letters. Unless someone knows different.

give_them_FA

No, just ignore it. Standard advice. Do not waste time querying it or contact them in any way. It is the usual scam, but if you query it they think you are actually taking it seriously and that they have hooked a sucker, so will pester you more than usual

If you ignore them they will send you some junk mail and the amount will rise as they try and bluff you into paying, but after a bit will cut their losses and give up.

tenham

Thanks for such a quick respone! Has anyone any idea who these people are and an example of letters from them please?

Coupon-mad

Yep, they are just a company who - among other things - issue fake PCNs. Just another PPC. Ignore them like we all do.

They use letters from 'Debt Rcovery Plus' according to this old thread on pepipoo (please no replies on it as it's months old):

http://forums.pepipoo.com/index.php?showtopic=60922&start=0&p=583181&#entry583181

Debt Recovery Plus letters are shown in our top thread in pictures, listed under quite a few PPCs. See my signature, you are just one click away from the forum index view with the sticky thread you need at the top.

DRP letters lead nowhere, just laugh and play snap with each matching letter. Watch the Watchdog clip on the top thread too.

jembutler

My daughter received the same letter from legion last month and i just ignored it. She has today received the following.

"Dear jjlklkl

As the owner of vehicle blah blah your were written to on the 17/02/2012 and informed of the breach of regulations in which the vehicle was involved.

The breach of regulations concerned are that on the 12/12/2011 the aboce vehicle was parked in the car park, which is a car park provided by Knowsley Met Council and was parked in a permit bay without valid permit.

You are hereby warned that debt recovery and or court action will now be instigated to recover unpaid parking charges unles payment of 40.00 is made immeadiatley.

The instruction of a debt recovery company will incur additional costs, if court action is necessary we will in addition ask the court to make an order requiring you to pay legal costs which we estimate at 40.00. The court may also fine you.

Due to contractual obligations with our client your details will remain on our system for 6 months after this period of time we will remove all personal details from our database. However under the data protection act if a payment is received the charge notice recinded or once the case has been resolved through the courts your details will be removed immediately from our database."

Should i still ignore???

Ich_2

which is a car park provided by Knowsley Met Council

That I think changes the whole deal, if it is council owned it's a different set of rules

jembutler

Ich wrote: »

That I think changes the whole deal, if it is council owned it's a different set of rules

why is that? upon speaking to knowlsey council they just tell me its nothing to do with them and to speak to legion?

Ich_2

I was looking at it as a Council owned site with Legion acting as their agents which is a different set of rules. he wording though is for a private site so I wonder if they are using Knowsley's name incorrectly in that case

give_them_FA

I agree. If it was an official council PCN, the route it would take is rigidly fixed; and what is described above certainly isn't it. Councils do NOT use debt collectors or write letters like this. It may be that the car park is "provided" by the Council but administered privately. Unless someone from Liverpool knows better? Esmerobbo, you there??

Poster, where is the payment being requested to go? Has the Council office address been on any of the paperwork?

Hold fire until this is cleared up! Private parking companies are notorious for trying to pretend they have an authority they don't actually have and this sounds like that to me from what you have posted. Remember they are liars and scammers.

jembutler

They are asking payment to be sent to Legion's head office.