UCS Parking & TNC Collections

nic_o87

Hello, I hope someone can help.

I live in a gated development that has parking managed by UCS Parking. In late 2012, they took over the parking management and issued all residents with new parking permits - which I admit I had forgotten to put in my car.

In January 2013, I was given a Parking Fine by UCS for not displaying a valid permit - the old one was still on my windscreen and I was parking in my allocated space. I explained the situation to them and they said this was not a valid reason. Looking at various forums on here, the advice seemed to ignore it.

Approx six months after the initial notice, I began to receive letters from TNC Collections who were now managing the collection of payment. Following the same advice as before, I ignored them. They are now calling, texting and writing to me on almost a daily basis.

The issue is that I only moved out of my family home late in 2012, and my car was still registered to my parents house. This means they are being called on their landline too. I am now getting worried that they will take things to the next step and start knocking on their door.

Does anyone have any advice? Am I best to pay them the £112.50 they are asking for? I really do not want to, and currently would struggle to afford to.

Thanks so much.

Umkomaas

Next time they call (they are only debt collectors and have no powers over you or your parents) tell them this:

'The debt is denied, you must now refer this back to your client. Further calls from you will be regarded as harassment and I will have no hesitation in pursuing this further through any necessary channels in order to get you to cease and desist'.

This hopefully will throw the case back to the PPC and it's then a question of seeing what they do from that point.

UCS have not taken anyone to court in the past 12 months, and I suspect never have previously (perhaps someone who's been around a bit longer than me can confirm?).

HTH

Coupon-mad

Does anyone have any advice? Am I best to pay them the £112.50 they are
asking for?

No!

TNC are a random debt collector and I BET their first letter wasn't a compliant Notice to Keeper and was likely sent too late for registered keeper liability. Look up schedule 4 of POFA 2012 and read 'paragraph 8' which in simple bullet points shows what the requirements and deadlines are for a NTK which has to follow a windscreen ticket, if a PPC is to establish rk liability.

Did you keep the letters? You can probably get this cancelled by complaining to the BPA like I suggested to this poster yesterday:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4811281

BPA email details on that thread. DO NOT divulge who the driver was at all in your complaint wording because the whole point is you are complaining about harassment of a keeper - the WRONG PARTY - who is not liable due to the late Notice from TNC (bound to have been!). So the PPC could only pursue the driver and this is harassment that the BPA should stamp out.