ticket for parking in private road

rosieposie67

8 days ago i had a parking ticket from Northamptonshire parking management for parking without a valid permit on a road known as Notre Dame Mews in Northampton. I have a disabled badge and was on double yellow lines so thought I was safe! After reading the ticket for £120 reduced to £60 if paid in 14 days i looked around and saw a small notice in a 2ft 6" wall saying it was a private road and no parking without a permit, this was obscured by a car parked next to it and another was on a 6ft post but was also obscured by a van parked next to it. should I pay or appeal or ignore and has anyone else had a ticket from this company and what did they do?

Trebor16

rosieposie67 wrote: »

8 days ago i had a parking ticket from Northamptonshire parking management for parking without a valid permit on a road known as Notre Dame Mews in Northampton. I have a disabled badge and was on double yellow lines so thought I was safe! After reading the ticket for £120 reduced to £60 if paid in 14 days i looked around and saw a small notice in a 2ft 6" wall saying it was a private road and no parking without a permit, this was obscured by a car parked next to it and another was on a 6ft post but was also obscured by a van parked next to it. should I pay or appeal or ignore and has anyone else had a ticket from this company and what did they do?

Hello Rosie,

Read the stickies and then you will find the best course of action is to ignore them.

muckybutt

^^ seconded ^^ ignore them you have broken no laws etc private tickets can be ignored safely

peter_the_piper

Northamptonshire parking management

not on AOS list under that name so can't get rk details. Good time to ignore, no contact from you and they don't know who you are.

Coupon-mad

rosieposie67 wrote: »

8 days ago i had a parking ticket from Northamptonshire parking management for parking without a valid permit on a road known as Notre Dame Mews in Northampton. I have a disabled badge and was on double yellow lines so thought I was safe! After reading the ticket for £120 reduced to £60 if paid in 14 days i looked around and saw a small notice in a 2ft 6" wall saying it was a private road and no parking without a permit, this was obscured by a car parked next to it and another was on a 6ft post but was also obscured by a van parked next to it. should I pay or appeal or ignore and has anyone else had a ticket from this company and what did they do?

I do hope you haven't contacted them at all.

As peter_the_piper says, this bunch are not in the Approved Operator Scheme so they CANNOT, repeat CANNOT get your details from the DVLA. The amount being over £100 gives the game away as well that this is just a bunch of chancers. They cannot send any letters or do anything at all, if you don't contact them.

They are just scammers relying on idiots appealing or paying. So don't hand them your details by appealing, it would be as clever as replying to a phishing email!!

Happy New Year!

rosieposie67

Thanks all,
No I have not replied to them:D
Its good to know they can't get my details!
You have all made my year, so thanks again.
Ignoring them seems to be excellent advice:beer:

Stroma

By the way if they do contact you it means they got your RK illegally and against the dpa, so if you do hear from them come back here if you don't mind.

Stroma

I guess it's these, been incorporated for about 3 months only

http://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/ltd/northamptonshire-parking-management

Can't find a website though

Kite2010

Total damages suffered by the land-owner by the driver parking on a private road with poor signs, zero.
Total amount landowner can sue driver for in court - Zero

Ignore the 3rd party, there is something about private roads signs needing to be suitable and seeable from the public highway if the road doesn't have a barrier.

rockoniko

I am so glad i came across this post! I was also on notre dame mews. I parked at the top of the road. And as i have a disabled badge i always look around me to make sure there arent any " no parking signs ". I made sure i took photos on my phone of areas all around my car once i had seen the ticket. NO SIGNS. The amount also was £120!! I was getting prepared to write an appeal letter and send a copy of the photos. I was a bit dubious about the ticket because i thought it would have something to do with the council. so when i checked the councils website and found it was not the same address as on the ticket and none of their fines were £120, i thought i would google them.

A HUGE THANKYOU to you all for your help!:T

How can they get away with this? There must be hundreds of people who have paid their tickets on that road! Is there anywhere i can complain about them? is it even worth it?

Sorry i sound a bit thick....what is RK and dpa?

Also, how are you all so clued up??!! THANKS AGAIN! i was really scared about appealing.

muckybutt

rockoniko wrote: »

I am so glad i came across this post! I was also on notre dame mews. I parked at the top of the road. And as i have a disabled badge i always look around me to make sure there arent any " no parking signs ". I made sure i took photos on my phone of areas all around my car once i had seen the ticket. NO SIGNS. The amount also was £120!! I was getting prepared to write an appeal letter and send a copy of the photos. I was a bit dubious about the ticket because i thought it would have something to do with the council. so when i checked the councils website and found it was not the same address as on the ticket and none of their fines were £120, i thought i would google them.

A HUGE THANKYOU to you all for your help!:T

How can they get away with this? There must be hundreds of people who have paid their tickets on that road! Is there anywhere i can complain about them? is it even worth it?

Sorry i sound a bit thick....what is RK and dpa?

Also, how are you all so clued up??!! THANKS AGAIN! i was really scared about appealing.

RK = Registered Keeper
DPA = Data Protection Act

We are all clued up as we have "been there done that" and we have all come out the other side smelling sweeter than roses and still had OUR hard earned cash in OUR pockets not theirs.