Parking Eye - Bolton G Casino car park 'was not legal for 7 years. CCJ WON.

n0355209

Bolton G Casino car park 'was not legal for seven years'

If im honest I was in the wrong when I parked and didn't pay no excuse I just didn't pay not sure why. But when I received the £70 ticket I read some outdated advice to ignore the letters, Im glad I did in a way as I read the article below.

theboltonnews.co.uk/news/10844108.Bolton_G_Casino_car_park__was_not_legal_for_seven_years_/?ref=erec[/url]

The week previous I had received a parking fine in relation to the car park I refused to pay the fine due to the nature of the car park, private etc. I then read the article and this made my view on not paying. They then sent three/four more letters which were ignored. It surprised me they were pursuing this due to the lack of planning permission at the time of my offence.

Then in March this year they issued me with county court papers, to which I submitted my defense based on the article wrote and the fact that planning permission wasn't present. My alleged offence occurred on the 24/10/2013, they submitted there planning application on the 31/10/2013, and it was granted in Jan 2014. The defense was a simple two lines stating the lack of planning permission for the cameras and the pay points made the claim invalid.

I got off, others wont have, people will have just paid their fine without being aware of the issue. I submitted my defense and they had 28days to response once receiving the defense this has now lapsed so in essence I won the case, technically its stayed.

It was never heard in court, I believe this is because they know that they may be ordered to pay back any people who were fined during Dec 2006 - Jan 2014

If any one knows of anyone who has been fined at the "Bolton G Casino car park", during the above period spread the word. Repost were you can.

In essence they weren't allowed to enforce the hourly charges, as they had no permission, it was up to the customer of the car park if they wished to pay.

:T:T:T:T

Regards

James

prosnap

Working link .... http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/10844108._/

Coupon-mad

Interesting one - PE with no planning permission?!

Please don't assume a stayed case is over. Keep your eyes on this forum re the ParkingEye 'test case' decision due soon from HHJ Moloney in Cambs.

n0355209

So I posted this last night, I jumped the gun clearly.

I received a "Notice of Proposed allocation to the small claims track"

Which states that:

This is now a defended claim.

I will ask my granddad at weekend about this but he is a bit out of touch, can any one help on my next step.

Ta

Coupon-mad

Well it's all in the NEWBIES thread - that's why it's at the top of this forum board. You may not have noticed but post #5 of it is all about small claims defence.


P.S. to avoid embarrassment & a misleading thread title I would 'go advanced' while you can still edit your thread title!

n0355209

Moderator please delete