Capital2Coast - thoughts welcome on very dated incident!

scamander

cheers Daisy,

will do as advised!

Stroma

Make complaints to the council as this company appears to be acting fraudulently by ticketing on a public road. Also as this carries 10 sanction points, complain to the dvla and bpa

aos@britishparking.co.uk
foi@dvla.gsi.gov.uk

scamander

cheers Stroma - will do!

Coupon-mad

scamander wrote: »

alleged incident took place in Worthing (West Sussex). Registered keeper lives there too.

Agree about the ticket but nothing I can do about that now.

I am from West Sussex and would like to check this scam out when I visit my niece in Worthing shortly! Which road, outside which park?

Hovite_2

Coupon-mad wrote: »

I am from West Sussex and would like to check this scam out when I visit my niece in Worthing shortly! Which road, outside which park?

I doubt you'll ever get an invoice again - I would imagine your registration is on every PPCs database because they don't want the hassle

Coupon-mad

Hovite wrote: »

I doubt you'll ever get an invoice again - I would imagine your registration is on every PPCs database because they don't want the hassle

Oh that would be a shame - but it can't be or they would know who I am!

scamander

Coupon-mad,

the car was parked in Surrey Street, Worthing. At the bottom there seems to be a private car park (I checked it out on google street view). From what I remember of the photo they included in the letter the car was pictured on the street and presumably from the car park.

But it wasn't in the car park at any point. It was parked legally on the street.

Hovite_2

scamander wrote: »

Coupon-mad,

the car was parked in Surrey Street, Worthing. At the bottom there seems to be a private car park (I checked it out on google street view). From what I remember of the photo they included in the letter the car was pictured on the street and presumably from the car park.

But it wasn't in the car park at any point. It was parked legally on the street.

Ah, yes I know the street. Council run parking down the sides but it leads into a Travelodge car park. I suspect it's the Travelodge car park that C2C "manage". I'm down there on Friday hopefully so I'll take a closer look.

Coupon-mad

scamander wrote: »

Coupon-mad,

the car was parked in Surrey Street, Worthing. At the bottom there seems to be a private car park (I checked it out on google street view). From what I remember of the photo they included in the letter the car was pictured on the street and presumably from the car park.

But it wasn't in the car park at any point. It was parked legally on the street.

Here.

I know that place, I have turned my car round in that Travelodge before but never stayed there.

scamander

I was just looking over some points that have been raised here which are very useful and have formulated two options.

(a) Reply as above with an appeal, citing that the vehicle was not parked on private land and the photograph shows this.

(b) do nothing - surely they need to prove that the letter has been received (i.e. recorded delivery)? When the second letter arrives (if it does) then surely it could be claimed that the first wasn't received?

I am furious with myself for advising for the letter to be torn up as I'd like to have checked to see if they did cite POFA. If they did I could go down the route of:
(c) Reply with "I am the registered keeper but as the delivery of this exceeds the 14 day delivery date (the 'offence' was dated to mid-March!) you do not have rights to pursue against the registered keeper and you must contact the driver directly".

I then would expect a letter asking for the driver's details but in no way enforceable so they wouldn't be given and the matter dropped.

I suppose I could go down the route of (c) but I'd need to find a copy of their template FCN.