Controlled Parking Management Southall

Coupon-mad

davee64 wrote: »

Matthew. How did you get on. I went to Euro Car Parts Bank Hol Monday. ECP only unit open. 6 vehicles there and as you say, no defined reserved bays. Also there is no clear sign at the entrance to say it is private land and public not allowed to enter. Preordered my items so was only going to be there for a few minutes. Within 3 minutes, scooter pulls up and whacks on a Parking Charge Notice for £60. If not paid in 14 days increases to £100. This is disproportionate to the amount of time spent there. If there was a sign at the entrance, I would not have parked in there and parked on the road outside. Just want to know if you Ignored the notice and if so did they chase it up? Wife says I should just pay the £60, but think this is outrageous. Need some quick advice.

Same advice as given here:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4528779

You pay it and you would be stark raving mad! Sorry to your wife but she is completely wrong (and I am 'just' a wife and working Mum myself).

davee64_2

You pay it and you would be stark raving mad! Sorry to your wife but she is completely wrong (and I am 'just' a wife and working Mum myself).[/QUOTE]


Thanks Coupon Mad & Guy's Dad,

Advice taken

stressedmo

I have had the same misfortune, 23-03-13, a Saturday afternoon, and as the OP describes no other business was open except ECP.
My mistake was parking in the 'no parking zone' so heavily faded that all the other cars were on it and had obscured it.

I am concerned by the threat of Debt Recovery on the slip.

Was considering approaching Jill M Jones Cash and Carry as ECP say they are behind the fines.

trisontana

They are not fines, and "Debt Recovery" are just powerless debt collectors. They are not bailiffs!

Guys_Dad

davee64 wrote: »

You pay it and you would be stark raving mad! Sorry to your wife but she is completely wrong (and I am 'just' a wife and working Mum myself)


Thanks Coupon Mad & Guy's Dad,

Advice taken

So how is life as your first day as an about to be divorced man???

davee64_2

Cheaper, quieter.....

stressedmo

trisontana wrote: »

They are not fines, and "Debt Recovery" are just powerless debt collectors. They are not bailiffs!

Thanks for clarifying about the debt collectors, I have a lot to learn about all this, I am still 50/50...!

the fact is I didn't realise I was on the yellow 'no parking area' (badly faded) and while it was full of other cars he only ticketed mine and raced off!

davee64_2

As I found out at the same place Bank Hol Monday, they hit me like you too. Thought it was an April Fool, but have had time to think and will not let them win. I am ignoring the 'notice' and if they want my money, they can sing for it.
Take the sound advice I have got in above posts.

MathewB

Sorry Davee64,

I kinda did what everyone on this forum suggested, forgot about it and didn't come back to the forum until now!!!

Yes, I completely ignored the "ticket" and have now only just received the Notice to Owner.

I was going to completely ignore all correspondence from them but then I got to thinking - could I make money out of these clowns?

Has anyone replied to these people along the lines of, I will only respond to to court action and if you or any agent working on your behalf continue to write to me, Ignoring this advice would be a breach of contract and I will invoice you at £350 per letter!

Quite like the idea of messing about with this lot!!!

Coupon-mad

MathewB wrote: »

Sorry Davee64,

I kinda did what everyone on this forum suggested, forgot about it and didn't come back to the forum until now!!!

Yes, I completely ignored the "ticket" and have now only just received the Notice to Owner.

I was going to completely ignore all correspondence from them but then I got to thinking - could I make money out of these clowns?

Has anyone replied to these people along the lines of, I will only respond to to court action and if you or any agent working on your behalf continue to write to me, Ignoring this advice would be a breach of contract and I will invoice you at £350 per letter!

Quite like the idea of messing about with this lot!!!

NO that will get you nowhere. They won't take the bait and will still send out letters.

But if this is the first postal letter the Owner has received, you can appeal it now - and then again at POPLA, which is the new advice (better than ignoring as it costs the PPC £27 only to see their fake PCN cancelled).

See the latest POPLA decision thread at the top, two more wins added today (needs careful wording with help from the forum!). Why not think of summat funny to use in the first random appeal to your PPC, like one of those posters did on that thread!

Or something more serious such as sending a Letter Before Action to get rid of them once and for all, as I advised here (I post as SchoolRunMum on pepipoo):

http://forums.pepipoo.com/index.php?showtopic=77257

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A registered keeper could use this example LBA when receiving threatograms, when there's clearly no chance of registered keeper liability (such as when a PPC misses the deadline to send the first letter - as in your case I think?). I also included a new bit about removing all relevant registered keeper and car reg data from all formats of storage - so that if any more letters arrive then you can complain to the ICO too.

http://www.parkingcowboys.co.uk/keeper-liability/

They missed the deadline badly then unless they did write in between.