UKPC - Braehead, Glasgow

mcjihad

Alright, does anyone know if a ticket from this mob will stand up in court? A friend was accused of parking in a disabled bay and is being hit with an £80 fine!

Stroma

It's not a fine, and it won't go to court. So tell your friend to ignore them completely

Coupon-mad

mcjihad wrote: »

Alright, does anyone know if a ticket from this mob will stand up in court? A friend was accused of parking in a disabled bay and is being hit with an £80 fine!

Does anyone know if a UKPC 'ticket' will stand up in Court...LOL! :rotfl:

Google Result specific to MSE. Click and wait for it to load all the MSE thread results. Happy reading for you and your friend, but you could have searched the forum just as easily!

The only time UKPC ever went to Court, they were taken there:

http://forums.pepipoo.com/index.php?showtopic=63597

UKPC scamogram 'debt collector' letter chain to expect. The registered keeper just needs to be ready to file this little lot of junk mail:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2329119

Get the picture?!

However, a word to the wise, if a driver and passengers have no chronic disability then please, DO NOT park in disabled bays anywhere, including on private land. They are there to met a need and if they are empty at one point and you are only going to the cashpoint or whatever, it doesn't mean that someone won't need that bay a minute after you or a friend have hogged it. Unless your friend had a disability then he should not have parked there (but nor should he pay UKPC!).

Buzby

Scotland is shortly to introduce fines for this (Disabled parking no badge displayed). It is currently before Parliament and expected to be law shortly. You'll be pursued in the usual way but unlikely to end up in court until after the law is formally enacted.

FWIW, the Braehead signage is clear and to a high standard of compliance.

SCO

why do organisations use the private parking companies if they are not enforcable tickets?

OP: As a previous poster said is your friend or a passanger entitled to use a disabled bay?

ManxRed

Because the PPCs convince these organisations that they will cure all their parking problems for free.

The PPC then simply pocket the money from the gullible people who pay up without realising the unenforceability of the tickets.

What ends up happening is that the organisation who hires them finds that their customers receive unwarranted harassment from the PPC - by the time they realise this they find they're locked into a contract with the PPC that they cannot get out of, as Somerfield discovered to their considerable cost:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4238243

trisontana

Buzby wrote: »

Scotland is shortly to introduce fines for this (Disabled parking no badge displayed). It is currently before Parliament and expected to be law shortly. You'll be pursued in the usual way but unlikely to end up in court until after the law is formally enacted.

FWIW, the Braehead signage is clear and to a high standard of compliance.

Is this the same act where a landowner/PPC can invite the council to oversee disabled parking bays in private car-parks? If so that's been law for a couple of years now and the take-up has been very low because PPCs don't want to lose this source of income.

Fergie76

Buzby wrote: »

Scotland is shortly to introduce fines for this (Disabled parking no badge displayed). It is currently before Parliament and expected to be law shortly. You'll be pursued in the usual way but unlikely to end up in court until after the law is formally enacted.

FWIW, the Braehead signage is clear and to a high standard of compliance.

Is it? I thought it was already introduced and only a couple of car parks have taken up this scheme?

Braehead has loads of parking and I have never had a problem parking there, even at Christmas.

pogofish

Buzby wrote: »

Scotland is shortly to introduce fines for this (Disabled parking no badge displayed). It is currently before Parliament and expected to be law shortly. You'll be pursued in the usual way but unlikely to end up in court until after the law is formally enacted.

FWIW, the Braehead signage is clear and to a high standard of compliance.

Absolute Rubbish!

All that is due to happen next year is that certain central local authorities are bringing their enforcement in line with the major urban authorities and the upshot of the Blue Badge Reform and Blue Badge Improvement Scheme (BBIS) 2012 will see some minor tweaks in policy and practice nationally.

Absolutely none of which apply here as this is a private car park and any legal enforcement of BB spaces there would need to be done under the DPPPA - which has been a complete failure in the commercial parking context because the PPCs simply have no intention of giving-up the income.

The DPPPA needs to be specifically applied to each site and that has not happened - there are maybe a grand total of two retail car parks in Scotland that use it. Although it has been much more successful in the residential context.

jrmroxx

Got a ticket in a private car park from UKPC on 1st nov 2012.
I appealed imediately and got a confirmation email back.
Only today I got a debt recovery letter for £150 (original £60).
I phoned the company who told me they sent a letter stating my appeal had failed. I never got this letter and told the girl this, who when checking discovered they had not sent the letter...oops!
So do I have a case for cancelling the ticket due to their negligence,
after all it was my negligence that I did not see the boards on the wall of the building I parked near. So 2 wrongs make a right.......right.;)

Coupon-mad

What do you mean?

This is a scam - a fake PCN - so why are you trying to make a case when you should be just ignoring it?

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/forumdisplay.php?f=163

Read a few threads (except don't bother with Park Right, not a helpful sticky)...everyone gets those debt firm letters, I have some here!