UKPC and now DRP

MX101

Hi,
I was issued a PCN for staying over the permitted 20 minutes in a parking bay in a free carpark outside our local shops. I was unaware that this limit applied and was issued a £90 fine.
After doing limited research I ignored all the letters and am now on my second letter from DRP.
This one is a notice of intended court action and the charge is now £150, if I pay up then they wont pass the fine on to the creditors solicitor.
What to do next?
I have not made any appeal with UKPC or with DRP but have since read that it is best not to ignore.
One final thing - I emigrate to Switzerland at the end of October so wont be here to sort anything.
Advise needed and much appreciated
Thx

Redx

all info on debt collectors is in post #4 of the newbies sticky thread at the top of this forum (including DRP)

MX101

Redx wrote: »

all info on debt collectors is in post #4 of the newbies sticky thread at the top of this forum (including DRP)

Even at this late stage in the process?

Redx

MX101 wrote: »

Even at this late stage in the process?

I would advise always people to ignore any debt collector in these parking matters , especially DRP

the trick was to originally appeal the pcn and go to popla, you missed that part so have little option but to ignore now (its statute barred after 6 years under MCOL)

please read that post I mentioned , its designed to stop debt collector threads by explaining everything

fisherjim

They don't really intend any court action, only bullying threatening letters hoping you will help pay for the owner of UKPC's next Spanish villa upgrade. All you can do now is ignore and get on with living your life.

MX101

Redx wrote: »

I would advise always people to ignore any debt collector in these parking matters , especially DRP

the trick was to originally appeal the pcn and go to popla, you missed that part so have little option but to ignore now (its statute barred after 6 years under MCOL)

please read that post I mentioned , its designed to stop debt collector threads by explaining everything

Oh no - I just sent an appeal email to them!
Should I ignore any further correspondence from now on?

fisherjim

MX101 wrote: »

Oh no - I just sent an appeal email to them!
Should I ignore any further correspondence from now on?

If you are at the second Scam DR+ letter stage you missed the boat to appeal, now they will bombard you with more junk mail possibly from another scam company called Zenith!
You should ignore from now on unless you get real court papers which is unlikely from these idiots.

Coupon-mad

Should have ignored it all - you would have known that just by reading the ten thousand or so, other threads on here about DRP letters going back nearly ten years. Please read the Newbies thread and ignore them, now you've sent one appeal - fine and dandy - it won't hurt but it won't get a POPLA code. And you should only have sent an appeal (if any) to UKPC, so if you sent it to the debt collector you seriously wasted a stamp!

DO NOT PAY. DO NOT LET A WELL-MEANING RELATIVE PAY IN YOUR ABSENCE.

Next time Google the position if you get any parking ticket. They are all appealable, Council ones and all (at least in this country). You missed a trick and opened the door to junk mail for years now. So what, that's what people have been receiving for so long that most regular posters are, I am afraid, bored by the subject of these letters and can't add any advice above what's already out there no the zillions of other threads, all the same. This is not 'late in the process' - it's the usual tedious threatogram letter chain - and you are not about to get a court claim. But if you did, of course, you'd need to defend. I hope someone will be opening your post who won't panic and pay but can tell the difference between a debt collector letter and a real court claim form?

One final idea would be - why not write to UKPC as the registered keeper, 'name of registered keeper at English address', naming the driver as 'name of the driver' (even if the same surname of course as that person could be a family member...for all I know...*) at your Switzerland address'? Then if the driver at Swiss address gets sent a silly letter they can reply ONCE to confirm they were driving but are out of jurisdiction for the UK Courts, end of story. And if UKPC ever tried a small claim (almost unheard of for them) the keeper at English address can prove they sent a letter - that they kept a copy of - naming the driver in 2014. That would also be the way to stop the debt collector letters although there's no point writing to them; DRP will say it's too late to name the driver (no it's not, let's not have this discussion again when it's all over loads of threads already just like the info about DRP letters).


*Please don't tell us who was driving - no knee-jerk reply starting 'BUT'!! And no pm's about debt collector letters and how to respond or not.

Redx

this is one reason why my advice on debt collector letters about PRIVATE parking matters always has the same ADVICE word , IGNORE