UKPC parking charge!

Ikkemo

Same thing here. I received a letter from a debt collector offering me to settle or else await the court charges which will amount to £350 plus.
My fault; I left the site. Damages to the owner do not apply as I parked within the time limit. I keep wondering how these PPC can dictate individual's movements. Is that legal?

taffy056

Yes the charges will go up to £350 as they say, the great news is if you ignore them the charges will be £0.00 , bargain !

Stephen_Leak

And, by a strange co-incidence, £0.00 is exactly the same as the car park owner's losses as a result of your action.

There is no offence of "un-trespass". Read this ...

http://forums.pepipoo.com/index.php?act=attach&type=post&id=16231

ManxRed

Ikkemo wrote: »

Same thing here. I received a letter from a debt collector offering me to settle or else await the court charges which will amount to £350 plus.
My fault; I left the site. Damages to the owner do not apply as I parked within the time limit. I keep wondering how these PPC can dictate individual's movements. Is that legal?

No it isn't. Which is precisely why you shouldn't pay. What losses did the landowner suffer as a result?

If the car park wasn't full then nothing whatsoever.

Djarge

Hi

Wondering if you can help me...Please tell me i'm doing the right thing by ignoring these letters from UKPC and Debt Recovery Plus.

I have been doing some work for the University of Birmingham, there campus is controled by UKPC...Great!! The first week I was there I didn't have a parking permit (the Uni staff were just too busy to sort it out for me). I got 2 parking charges (£30 each) in 2 days of my first week of working there.

I've obvously been looking around and found out that if I ignore the letters they would get fed up and leave it.

There are signs everywhere stating I will be charged and to be honest I was expecting to get charged (but I had no where else to park, I couldn't let a customer down). I've taken everyones advice and just ignored the letters. These charges went to £60 each after 28 days and I have recently recieved a letter from Debt Recovery Plus telling the charges have now gone up to £120 each and I have to pay within 7 days.

The staff onsite have told me they pay £1 a day to park on campus that comes out of their salaries, so I guess the loss to the Land owner is a £1 a day (I don't mind paying that). All my family are telling me to pay to these charges but I'm not willing to fork out £240 to any body.

What do you guys think? I'm just worried that there was signs everywhere stating I was going to be charged.

Cheers

Stephen_Leak

You are right. Your family are wrong.

See my post #4 above.

Djarge

Cheers Stephen

Does it matter if the site is gated? Normally the Uni staff have a swipe card that lifts the gate (this takes the £1 out of their salary), With me not being staff I press a buzzer and they let me in.....no questions asked.

BASFORDLAD

No it makes no difference

Ask your family if they are easily fooled and if they pay when they get those nigerian scam emails?

just sit out the silly letters you get and educate your family

Show them the letter chain that is on this board

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Stephen_Leak

"25"? That should read "live".