Vcs Doncaster airport parking charge notice

Sirdan

trisontana wrote: »

Where their master plan falls down is that they are issuing "parking charge notices" . Note the word "parking". Of course in your case and the one where somebody stopped for less than a minute to post a letter, the vehicle technically wasn't parked, it just stopped.

This is very much like the situation at Luton Airport where motorists have received tickets while stuck in a traffic jam or are stopped at a red light and have committed the heinous "crime" of letting a passenger out of the car to walk the rest of the way to the airport.

Being stopped in traffic is not parked. Being stopped at the side of the road if not loading / unloading IS parked.

I am sure the PPC and POPLA would go with this definition:-

"In legal terms parked, means the standing of a vehicle, whether it is occupied or not, otherwise than temporarily for the purpose of and while one is actually engaged in the act of loading or unloading of property or passengers."

Not sure posting a letter qualifies as unloading of property ...debateable.

Thelooneytuner

micka72 wrote: »

just received a pcn from this company.pulled into a deserted bus stop just before airport entrance to retrieve my glasses which had fallen on the car floor.having read other peoples experiences i shall ignore it.will keep tou updated on how things progress.

This was pretty much the same circumstances as me however it was a different object.

Thelooneytuner

Ok so today I received yet another letter. It has become quite hilarious now though! I'm now on what seems my 4th "final demand" not only that they have offered to reduce the amount I needed to pay from the previous letter from around £400 to now £160.

There is no consistency to any of it. Not even the time between letters!

I'm almost chuffed at the reduction in price....... bargain

Not

trisontana

"How they wish to proceed" means "give up".

taffy056

It will go up to £207.25 it always does , then it goes to £0.00 as you ignore the scam and get a 100% discount

Half_way

Maybe you should arrange a meeting with Mr Sobell to sort things out

taffy056

Half_way wrote: »

Maybe you should arrange a meeting with Mr Sobell to sort things out

Yes he's about 95 and probably has dementia and doesn't remember he was a solicitor , best of luck with that

ManxRed

"my client, Roxburghe...."

"Me" in other words, given that its Roxburghe's typing up the letters and sending them out.

Anyway, Roxburghe's are a third party agent and cannot initiate a court claim anyway - they'd be in contempt of court.

Good luck with that one Graham/Michael/Lacky at Roxburghe.

:beer:

Bessy_the_Dog

Thelooneytuner wrote: »

Hi guys, just after a little advice. I received the notice after I got back off holiday.

Basically I pulled in at a bus stop as my car mat was lodging under the pedals so I did the logical thing and pulled in to sort it out, literally 60 seconds! Apparently that's a finable offence.
I appealed against it and you guessed it, it was declined. I did this before reading up on the subject but the area now seems a bit sketchy because I appealed so I'm unsure where I stand.

My letters and email can be found on my photo bucket rdboulby

Here's the email

To whoever it may concern, I am emailing with regards to a recent letter I have!received!regarding a parking charge notice Ref VC01
I am appealing this parking charge for the very fact I was not parking. The reason I had, and I state HAD to pull in was due to my vehicle mat in my vehicle becoming lodged under the pedals. After nearly having an accident on the previous roundabout I pulled into the nearest safe location to dislodge the car mat.
I know I have not!committed!any breaches of laws here and pulled over in a safe manner to rectify what could have escalated into an accident causing injury and damage to me, my passenger, another vehicle and occupants as well as the upcoming roundabout.

I await your response

Mr tuner

Anyone had dealings after an appeal and then ignoring?

The first notice of charge



My appeal



Appeal reply

Just to go back to your first post and the above photo of the sign, it says that their terms and conditions are on signs located on the approach roads to the airport. So if you stopped to actually read those T&C`s you would then incur another parking charge to read them, do they expect you to walk down the approach roads first to read them before you decide whether to proceed or not? If in the very unlikely event it went to court the judge would laugh it straight out of the door. Incidently, I`ve had the exact same letter chain, to the word from Excel and I`m at exactly the same point in the chain as you

Thelooneytuner

Haha I never noticed that bessy.

Another point that makes this seriously laughable is the fact they spelt my name wrong AGAIN and to make it even more embarrassing yet a different way to the first way it was spelt wrong.....