Please help

chel_400

Hi, I was wondering if you could offer me some advice in a parking matter? Last September I was working for a care company visiting older people within their own homes and one of my visits was to a supporting housing block. On parking my car I clearly displayed a sign that I was a care worker visiting a person within the block, I was well know to all the staff and management team at the supported living home. Once I had completed my visit I return to my car and found that a private company had issued me with a parking notice for failing to display a parking permit. I applied this, following the instruction given on the ticket and did not receive any feedback until I got a letter 6 weeks later informing me that as I had fail to pay the fine it had now been increased. I wrote to them again, enclosing my first letter as requested they review the fine again. I did not hear anything further until this week when I received a letter from a small claims solicitors informing me that unless I make full payment now, they will be taking me to court to obtain a CCJ. I have stated that I applied this fine on a number of occasions and did not receive any feedback from the company and they has stated that it has now gone to far and unless I pay the full amount they will be summonsing me. They have stated that any court judge with go against me as I di not chase up the parking company and I will lose. Is this true, would I be better off paying them rather than going to court or can I obtain a statutory declaration to force the parking company to review the fine again?

pogofish

Did you read the sticky as directed on you original thread in the other fourm?

If not - start with the Newbies Sticky at the top of this board, which outlines your situation and the various options open to you at different stages of the process.

Also, please tell us who issued the ticket - there is experience here of chalenging most PPCs and there may be more specific advice on dealing with them effectively but disregard any threads over six months old - the post-POFA 2012 situation is still evolving and there may be out of date info.

chel_400

Hi sorry miss understood you reply.


The ticket was issued by a company call UKPS and the company chasing me for it now is mall Claims Solicitors

hoohoo

Complain to the BPA at aos@britishparking.co.uk

Tell them what you told us and send copies of your letters.

come back if the BPA do not help.

Guys_Dad

hoohoo wrote: »

Complain to the BPA at aos@britishparking.co.uk

Tell them what you told us and send copies of your letters.

come back if the BPA do not help.

The point is that they should have considered your appeal and, if they rejected it, sent you a letter saying so plus a POPLA code to enable you to appeal to POPLA.

That is your complaint to BPA, the PPC and the solicitors.

Edna_Basher

UKPS (or UKPS (North West) Limited to give it its Sunday name) became a member of the Independent Parking Committee (IPC) with effect from 1st October 2013 and is no longer a member of the British Parking Association (BPA).

However, you describe how this alleged contravention took place last September (2013). In your letter of complaint to the BPA, you will need to make it clear that these problems arose while UKPS was still under the BPA's watch, otherwise they may fob you off by telling you it's not their problem.