ParkingEye 'Parking Charge Notice'

Shagger

Yesterday I had a letter from ParkingEye car park management with a couple of photos of my car on it along with instructions on how to pay them the £100 (£60 if I pay before 14/08) that I apparently owe them for overstaying the 2 hour maximum in a local shop carpark.

Apologies if this is the wrong forum section but I was hoping to get some advice on here as to how to proceed. From what little research I had chance to do last night, it looks like the standard approach up until late 2012 was to simply ignore the threatening letters until eventually ParkingEye got bored and gave up. It then looks like ParkingEye started pursuing more small claims court cases from early 2013 onwards (although many of these seem to have been unsuccessful or resulted in them settling for small sums like £15).

Does anybody on here have any knowledge or advice that they could share? I'm tempted to just ignore their letters and if it goes to court, so be it: the car park is a big, free one rather than pay-and-display. It was nowhere near full when I parked there and although I overstayed by 1hr 18 minutes, only 1 hour of that was when the shop was actually open. I don't see how they could possibly argue that they'd been anywhere near even £60 out-of-pocket by me overstaying by 1 hour and from what I've read, this is the crux of the argument.

tykesi

This is in the wrong forum, there is a specific parking tickets forum at the top of the motoring page, you need to post in there.

Before you do though, read AND digest the 'NEWBIES' sticky thread at the top of that board which will tell you how to deal with this without it going anywhere near court.

Guest101

Shagger wrote: »

Yesterday I had a letter from ParkingEye car park management with a couple of photos of my car on it along with instructions on how to pay them the £100 (£60 if I pay before 14/08) that I apparently owe them for overstaying the 2 hour maximum in a local shop carpark.

Apologies if this is the wrong forum section but I was hoping to get some advice on here as to how to proceed. From what little research I had chance to do last night, it looks like the standard approach up until late 2012 was to simply ignore the threatening letters until eventually ParkingEye got bored and gave up. It then looks like ParkingEye started pursuing more small claims court cases from early 2013 onwards (although many of these seem to have been unsuccessful or resulted in them settling for small sums like £15).

Does anybody on here have any knowledge or advice that they could share? I'm tempted to just ignore their letters and if it goes to court, so be it: the car park is a big, free one rather than pay-and-display. It was nowhere near full when I parked there and although I overstayed by 1hr 18 minutes, only 1 hour of that was when the shop was actually open. I don't see how they could possibly argue that they'd been anywhere near even £60 out-of-pocket by me overstaying by 1 hour and from what I've read, this is the crux of the argument.

Top of this forum is a sub forum for parking, in there u will find all the info.

But your first job (assuming u don't live in Scotland) is to appeal to them and request a POPLA code.

Ur appeal can be anything. Including just saying 'after reading MSE and parking prankster I'm not paying u a penny. Give me a popla code. Ps you're in the daily mail again today'

The point is to get the code

Shagger

Sorry, no idea how I missed that as it couldn't get much more obvious!

I'll re-post in the correct area of the forum