Ukpc parking ticket

KatHaz

Hi,

I received a car park ticket (for £60 if payed within 14 days and then up to £100 there after) when my car was parked in Boucher road car park in Belfast northern Ireland. The car was not parked in a bay space - it was parked beside a space in an area where there was no sign or road marking to say that parking was not allowed. The registered keeper was not the driver.

We have received 2 letters asking for payment. I then sent in an appeal email stating that the registered keeper was no the driver.

There were several circumstances as to why the car was parked there -

Firstly the driver has been in receipt of higher rate mobility allowance from the DLA for over a year before the ticket was received. They also have a blue badge, which was not displayed at the time. There were NO disabled spaces available. (actually there were NO spaces available even after 2 laps around the entire car park!)

The car was only parked for 5 minutes. The drivers 2 year old child had been admitted into the children's hospital (which is 5 minute drive away from car park) and the driver needed to go into boots to pick some things up for their sick child. After trying unsuccessfully to get a space elsewhere they parked the car outside a bay as they could not leave their child for a long period of time.

In the next bay over from the ticketed parked car there was another parked car who was parked in a partially boxed area, indicating it was not a proper bay, and yet they were not ticketed for doing so. Is this not discrimination? The wardens must have seen the other car as it was the next car over from where our car was parked? Why our car and not theirs?

They have sent me another letter back rejecting my appeal letter, again to the registered keeper (who was not even in Belfast that day and not driving the car) asking for payment stating that the car was not parked in a proper bay.

I really don't want to pay these scum bags money!

Help please!

Thanks

KatHaz

Help plz

Bump

Coupon-mad

I then sent in an appeal email stating that the registered keeper was no the
driver.

You didn't need to appeal, in NI you can still ignore this whole scam:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAIcdi9niHA

That video sums up the situation as it still stands in Scotland and NI where you have no POFA 2012 'registered keeper liability' law.

Hope your appeal didn't name the driver nor imply who that person was? Just ignore them but complain to the Landowner (or on-site Store Manager if there is one) and get them to cancel it. Again do NOT state who was driving, this is what you must not divulge. But then again it's only UKPC so you are in no danger! Read my latest post here today about UKPC:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4826269

That's the waste of fresh air firm you are dealing with! Complain about them, keep all the silly letters but ignore them unless they break the habit of a lifetime and try their first ever small claim...and choose you in NI?! - won't happen!

KatHaz

They are threatening me with court action tho... They were able to contact the dvlni to get registered keeper details?? Worried!

Coupon-mad

All AOS members get DVLA or DVA data. So what, it's unfair - madness in fact! - but no amount of complaining has changed it in recent years.

See the above advice, have you kept the driver's details secret? Watch the video. Read threads like yours which show the silly threatograms you can make into paper aeroplanes:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4798537

Scotland is the same as NI:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4810595

This is all hot air, relax and enjoy laughing at them now you know! And what about this?

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4794531

''Last week the NI Assembly spent 1.5 hours discussing PPCs and passed the following motion'' :p

It's all good in NI!!

HTH

KatHaz

Didn't say or confirm who the driver was. Simply said that the driver had a blue badge and motability issues, referred to the driver all the time.

Should I write into them again and restate to them that although my husband is the registered keeper he was not driving the car?

Coupon-mad

No. Read what I have just edited into my replies (all links on both replies), and laugh!

You could report them to the EHRC for disability discrimination if you want. Or your local MP and Trading Standards NI. But do read the links and have a smirk!

KatHaz

I hate to go on but on the citizens advise website it says that if it's a boa member they can approach the Eva to get registered Keepers details and pursue them for payment, it doesn't say that they have to be the driver. My husband is in business And i dot want his name to be messed about by scum like these so I just want to make sure I have covered all bases! Sorry if I'm going on!

Won't let me post a link

Coupon-mad

KatHaz wrote: »

I hate to go on but on the citizens advise website it says that if it's a boa member they can approach the Eva to get registered Keepers details and pursue them for payment, it doesn't say that they have to be the driver. My husband is in business so I just want to make sure I have covered all bases! Sorry if I'm going on!

Won't let me post a link

Stop it. You are making me laugh! Citizens advice indeed! :rotfl:

KatHaz

*DVA I meant

In the appeal letter I referred to the driver as I did in my original post above

KatHaz

Really?! Is the citizens advise not good advise?! Lol