Parking Charge G24 Sheffield

Rodger28

Hello everyone.

I'm a new user to this forum so please go easy on me. I am after some advice on a parking charge I received about 5 months ago. My self and my wife to be went for a meal and also decided to go to the cinema. We arrived at the parking area to discover it was full due to a concert that was on at the arena across the road (people park where the restaurants and cinema are so they don't have to pay in the arena) so, I parked at the retail park behind the cinema, this was roughly 8 o'clock in the evening and all the shops were closed. I arrived back at my car roughly after midnight and was on my way. A few weeks later I received the charge asking for £50. On the advice of a friend I chose to ignore it. As time has gone on I have had letter after letter threatening court action and bailiffs. My charge is now at £110. Now they have also said in the letter that falling to pay will effect my credit rating ect. Now I have just placed an offer on a house and I'm really worried this is going to affect my purchase of a house. I have done nothing but worry about whats going to happen and it's really starting to get me down now. Now I'm really considering just paying the £110 just to get them off my back and it be done with, but I just can't see how I can be charged for staying in a empty car park. I welcome any advice.

Regards
Rodger

kirkbyinfurnesslad_2

Well you are at the stage now where ignore is the only real option

It wont have any effect on your credit file etc. You dont simply pay someone to stop sending you silly letters.

If you do , can i have your address please?

G24 dont do court so you have nothing to worry about

Coupon-mad

Wow what a lot of unnecessary worry caused by missing the chance for the registered keeper to appeal. Never mind - the driver hasn't missed their chance to appeal have they? And of course that wasn't the same person as the keeper WAS IT?!

Read the 'NEWBIES READ THIS FIRST!' sticky thread (top of the forum...) which covers all your options at silly old debt collector letter stage. Your options are the same as everyone else whose thread title here says 'I ignored' 'I took old advice' 'Am I too late to appeal?' of which you will see LOADS in the first few pages. All directed to read the debt collector section in the NEWBIES thread (post #4 of it has a whole section & hyperlinks that we cannot re-type every time).

Learn how to rewind the clock FOR THE DRIVER TO BE NAMED BY THE KEEPER (DIFFERENT NAME AND ADDRESS) SO THEY CAN GET THEIR OWN FRESH NOTICE TO APPEAL or you can of course simply ignore G24. Of course it won't affect your credit rating, read this!

http://forums.pepipoo.com/index.php?showtopic=24362

Please do not reply HERE saying who was driving unless it was not the keeper. And it wasn't was it...and that driver has a new address don't they? Or will have.

Redx

speaking tongue in cheek, the "friend" who told you to ignore it should pay it, as they should atone for their terrible and ill-conceived advice , with friends like that you dont need enemies

a soft appeal to the ppc followed by a proper appeal to popla would have killed this stone dead

take note:- read the last post very carefully and do as she said

Rodger28

Thank you for the advice. I best make a brew and get reading.

Thank you!!

kirkbyinfurnesslad_2

Rodger28 wrote: »

Thank you for the advice. I best make a brew and get reading.

Thank you!!

No problem, what ever you do dont worry

Rodger28

Just been reading through the "newbies read" thread. Has there been any cases where they have issued a PCN after business hours? Or am I clutching at straws?

Thank you for your help!

Redx

pcn,s have been issued on private land by a lot of these parking companies , doesnt really matter what time it is, and certainly for places like the range

Coupon-mad

Rodger28 wrote: »

Just been reading through the "newbies read" thread. Has there been any cases where they have issued a PCN after business hours? Or am I clutching at straws?

Thank you for your help!

Clutching at a straw you don't need to clutch. Let the driver clutch at 'proper straws' which will win at POPLA when they get their chance to appeal. Wait until you have just moved into the new place, then time a letter to the PPC (from the keeper at 'old address' to name the driver as 'Ms or Mr xxxxxx at new address'). Because from what I can gather...the keeper probably wasn't the driver on that occasion...of course.

This method also stops the worry of thinking about debt collector letters arriving at the old address, as the PPC HAVE to write to the driver when name & address is given (there are templates on here - one example is in post #10 in the 'LBCCC Fightback' sticky thread but you'd need to adapt it as there won't be a LBCCC from G24).