Old PCN come back to life - photos inc. Please help.

MissyS

**Photos in next post**
Hi
I am hoping someone can help with a PCN issued by UKPC in December 2012.

Brief details - parked in a private car park in disabled bay. Put up my son's blue badge and went shopping. Came back to PCN on window for not displaying a pay and display ticket. Checked the sign in the car park and there was no information to say that blue badge holders should also pay (but there also was no information to say we didn't need to!). I wish I'd paid the 80p back then!!

I appealed the ticket (before I found any advice on here) and the appeal was refused. I sent a cheque for £2 to cover the parking cost and letter - this was returned.

I read all of the sticky threads at the time (after appeal) and the majority of advice back then was to ignore the letters sent so this is what I did.

The letters stopped in about June 2013.

In December 2013 I received another letter from Debt Recovery Plus asking for payment which I again ignored.

Yesterday I received a letter from 'Small Claims Solicitors' which I have hopefully attached.
This letter has worried me. I spent 2 hours reading the sticky threads for advice but I just cannot get ny head around it so would be eternally grateful if someone could give me some personal advice.

Perhaps the time has come to suck it up and pay?
Many thanks for your help.

MissyS

Stroma

Ignore them as they cannot issue a claim in their name or debt recovery plus, if you get a letter before claim then come back here for further advice.

Browntoa

I notice the pictures have your car registration in it, you may want to blank that out and post an updated picture

MissyS

Thanks for pointing that out - should be reposted and blanked out now.

MissyS

At the time of appeal I did not get a POPLA number - should I request one now? Is it too late?

Stroma

MissyS wrote: »

At the time of appeal I did not get a POPLA number - should I request one now? Is it too late?

More than a year has passed, I doubt that they will consider it now. Just ignore unless you get a letter before claim from the parking company

Coupon-mad

You do realise this letter has been discussed loads of times in the past week?

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4870010

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4870971

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4398287

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4870468

The advice has already been given to either:

- ignore it or

- treat it as a rubbish non-compliant Letter before Claim and respond robustly as per the LBCCC Fightback sticky thread.

Your choice. I find it amusing they cannot even get the letter-heading to match the supposed name of the firm! Misses off the S!

MissyS

Thank you both.

Coupon-mad - if it were you in this situation which optin would you personally take? Ignore or treast it as a non-compliant letter before claim? Thanks again.

Coupon-mad

I would robustly respond as keeper as per the LBCCC thread, to put them on the back foot. Because if it is meant to be a LBC then clearly it doesn't cut the mustard and if it isn't then no harm done - as long as you follow Daisy's LBCCC sticky and do not refer to who was driving or anything else - no unnecessary detail, just a robust rebuttal of it - a demolition! Then I would ignore any other protestations from them or DRP/Zenith of course as you have stated your case and should only then respond to a real compliant LBC (or court papers of course if the PPC tries it).

I can understand the plan to ignore it as well, because the more you look at it the more it looks like a Debt Recovery Plus standard letter and it is drivel! After all, we have seen this letter posted about by people with all sorts of different PPCs originally so I can't believe it is anything more than DRP's latest letter, in reality. It's not indicative of one particular PPC shaping up for court, that's for sure.

MissyS

Thank you for your advice.
As an aside I tried to open the website detailed at the bottom of the letter. The address does. Not exist funnily enough!