UKPC parking charge - should I pay?

amielouise1

Hi,
Could someone please help! I have receive 3 parking tickets from UKPC for parking on a verge on yellow lines at the end of the lay-by by my block of flats. There is a sign next to it to say you are not allowed to park on the verge but below are a few points:
- we have one space allocated to our flat and on one occasion someone was parked in my space. It was evening time and dark and I had my 10 month old baby in the car and it was pouring down with rain. There was no visitors space to park and I can’t park in someone else’s space. So in this situation I parked on the verge and got my baby in the house and someone came round and sat with my child while I moved my car. I was parked there for 20 mins and got a ticket.
2. My second ticket was my BF at the time came around and had to park in my space because there was no where else for him to park and the last two times he parked on the streets behind our flat he got his van broken into and lost thousands pounds worth of tools. So I let him park in my space and again I parked on the verge and got another ticket.

in these circumstances, where else would I go? I also have had my car broken into twice when parking at the street behind so I wasn’t going to park there with my sons car seat in etc and risk for the third time getting broken into. 

UKPC was patrolling our street a couple of years ago but their was an appeal from the residents to get them removed and they were gone. If I remember correctly we received a letter from the property management (not the people who provide our contracts) saying UKPC are going to be patrolling the street again. I do not understand who agreed for them to come back. 

Someone who lives in another block across the road was taken to court by UKPC for £3k worth of parking tickets ( their made up value) for parking outside the bays but she has told me today she won her case due to her lease not mentioning anything about parking and where she can and can’t park.
In my situation, I do believe the property management of the flats sent a letter to say UKPC are back and the signs do say don’t park on the verge so have I got no chance and have to pay the fine? My tenancy agreement doesn’t haven’t anything about parking on it either.

i have appealed two tickets and they rejected it and sent them to a debt company who have added £100 pounds into the ticket.
i have two letters about a parking fine but I actually never got the parking ticket on my car so I have ignored this one for the money.
shall I ignore the debt company and let me try take me to court or have I not got a leg to stand on?

please help as I am a single mum and completely stressed from it all! 

Thanks 

wintapper

Hi

Need some advice as there seems to be some conflicting thoughts on dealing with unpaid parking tickets.  I received today a Claim Form from County Court Business Centre in Northampton on behalf of Gladstones Solicitors Ltd. The form looks like a photocopy with no official stamp. Is this for real?

The claim is for two unpaid parking charge notices back in December 2019 and January 2019 whilst rightly parking at my daughter's martial arts class. As members of the club we are allowed to park in the overflow car park on the other side of the building if the other car park is full. I have and other members have done and continue to do so without any issues.

I was not aware of these charges of £160.00 each until 23rd March 2019 when I received a letter from the company Debt Recovery Plus Ltd.  I contacted them straightaway and informed them we are allowed to park in the carpark as my daughter is member of the gym, quite frankly they didn't take much notice and was very rude and unhelpful.  I then subsequently took the letters to the Manager of the gym who then immediately emailed UK Car Park Management Ltd informing them of the error and requested cancellation of said PCNs, which they did (I have copies of the email correspondence confirming cancellation).

Rightly or naively, after to being told to ignore any further letters from DRP and Gladstone Solicitors (mostly from forums like this and  internet and youtube research;  whole thing was just a great big scam, I did just ignored them, until now! I am a bit worried that I will be taken to court and a CCJ put in place and as a single mother this is the last thing I want hanging over my head!

I have started to fill out the Claim Form and I am also in the process of drafting a letter to Gladstone Solicitors requesting 'proof of the claim and any original agreements and Dead of Assignment demonstrating that the claimant has a right to bring about a claim against me'. The italic part is suggested by Youtuber called Jo Blogg who I found on youtube today amidst my panic - Is this correct? I don't really understand the legal jargon:/

With regards to the Claim Form I am in the process of filling out the paper form (not online).  Do I need to give them my date of birth and email address as they have my address to send correspondence to? My defence will be mainly what I wrote above apart from the ignoring the letters part of course!

Any advice in the next few days would be most appreciated as I have 14 days from today to send of the letter to the Solicitors and to complete the Acknowledgement of Service Form. 

Many thanks

KeithP

Wintapper, stop filling in any forms.

You must start a new thread.
Trying to deal with more than one person's issue in a single thread can only lead to confusion.

So please start a new thread and on that new thread tell us the Issue Date on your County Court Claim Form.

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