ParkingEye Fine, which we ignored... Help!

Mjkpio

I followed the flowchart and ended up at 'post a thread in the forum'!

Ok, ...redacted...

A week or so later a Fine letter came through from ParkingEye with a photo of the car requesting £60 payment. After some googling it looked like the advice was to 100% ignore it and any following letters - so we did. I now realise I missed some of the more recent, and different advice.

So we ignored 3 of these letters. Another has just come through headed "letter before county court claim" and requesting an increased £100 fine.

A bit more googling and it looks like this is now genuine and we DO have to pay the fines!

So I'm pretty confused what advice to follow and what to do now. They can't deny they weren't in that car park, even if they didn't know it wasn't the Surgery's one, but we just followed what we read.

Anyone have any advice or suggestions? Or do we now just pay the fine?

Thanks in advance

ColliesCarer

No you don't have to pay

Follow the advice on the LBCCC fightback thread you will find in crabman's sticky thread The Parking Tickets Board linked here for you

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4896178

Providing the registered keeper and the driver are different people the registered keeper can use the 1st response letter by zzzLazyDaisy to acknowledge the LBCC and re-set the clock by naming the driver - see post #10 of the LBCCC fightback thread

The parking company should then send the driver a PCN (Notice to driver in their own name) - once it arrives it should then be appealed - see the sticky NEWBIES thread for advice on how to do that and a template 1st appeal letter

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4816822

prosnap

Firstly .... You have referred to this four times now as a fine




It is not a fine!


Private companies cannot issue fines .... By Law!

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Redx

the advice here changed over a year ago due to the law changing in oct 2012 under POFA 2012 which is 18 months ago

so no idea why you ignored it in feb 2014 when the law changed 16 months earlier

please read the sticky threads carefully

BenefitMaster

Mjkpio wrote: »

Or do we now just pay the fine?

Thanks in advance

You're welcome.

IT'S NOT A FINE :mad: :mad: :mad:

Please get the "fine" concept out of your head. Parkin'Lie have no right to fine anyone.

Mjkpio

Thank you so far.
1: the driver and registered keeper is the same person, does this therefore nullify your reply ColliesCarer?
2: ok, I get that it's not a fine, it's an invoice. But with the changes is it still enforceable by ParkingEye or the courts?
3: RedX - I didn't know the law had changed and my google searches hadn't brought up the new information. I wouldn't have ignored it if I had! However we're outside of the 28day period so not sure how relevant some of the stickies are for us now?

Redx

Mjkpio wrote: »

Thank you so far.
1: the driver and registered keeper is the same person, does this therefore nullify your reply ColliesCarer?
2: ok, I get that it's not a fine, it's an invoice. But with the changes is it still enforceable by ParkingEye or the courts?
3: RedX - I didn't know the law had changed and my google searches hadn't brought up the new information. I wouldn't have ignored it if I had! However we're outside of the 28day period so not sure how relevant some of the stickies are for us now?

1) yes it does nullify the course of action , cannot be done if they are one and the same person

2) it certainly is unless a judge decided its not

3) maybe not but you stated you checked in feb 2014 (2 months ago) and yet I know for a fact the advice on THIS FORUM in those sticky threads has been there for about a year, although it does get changed and expanded upon , so this forum and pepipoo has had the correct information for 12 months and I used that info 3 times last year and have advised many people on here since I joined last year, so please dont say this advice wasnt here or that ignore was the correct option

its a shame your google search didnt turn up this forum , martin is on telly enough times to ensure people look on here for info

as for the sticky threads, yes you can appeal to PE, NO they dont have to give you a popla code as you are out of time , they could if they wish to do so at any time but prefer your money so will hound you for it

what can you do ?

get the landowner to cancel the ticket (explained in the sticky threads)

if PE issue an LBCCC, try to get it referred to popla as an ADR (explained in the sticky threads)

if court papers are issued, defend it and try to get it to popla as an ADR

Nodding_Donkey

Strange, if you google 'Parking Eye fine' then this forum is number 1 onn the list.

Righteous_Parker

It's not helpful to keep arguing about what threads come up when you google, I'm a newcomer to these threads and it took some digging before I happened upon the latest information. It comes across as if newbies are being accused of lying, which is not nice.

It's also not helpful to shout at newcomers that it's not a fine.

Other than those issues, this is an excellent place to come for help. Good luck with your situation, mjklpio!

Redx

the latest information is pinned to the top of this forum and is the NEWBIES thread by coupon-mad, and its been pinned there for 9 months or more

Righteous_Parker

Yes, but we don't always enter the site that way.

Believe me, we don't do it deliberately, we just search for help with our parking charge problems and we end up in old threads. It happened to me and I really never set out to annoy.