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Council fine, don't understand it
Sugarmouse0707
Posts: 22 Forumite
I have recieved a letter from a debt collecting agency informing me that I owe £187 to the council for a parking fine issued around this time last year.
What I don't understand is;
Is it a mistake?Is there ANYTHING I can do? As It's gone to debt recovery I don't imagine I can dispute it with them, I'll just get told to pay it...Also I imagine had I received contact from the council at the time, it would be half the amount (or less).
The ticket I received back in 2004 WAS a mistake so I know they do happen, it wasn't my car registration, I resolved it by sending them a picture of my car and its log book.
Why haven't I been contacted before now?
I do a fair bit of driving and don't have a particularly great memory, but I have googled the location of where this supposed ticket was issued and I have no recollection of being there-I have no reason to be there, I live miles away.
I don't understand.
I'm thinking at the moment to write to the council and explain. If I have to pay the fine I will do but I don't want to pay the £187, which is £75 'compliance stage fee'.
If anybody can advise I will be very grateful.
What I don't understand is;
- I haven't received anything about this, prior to the letter
- It is a registration of a car I owned at the time, but in a town I don't ever recall visiting, some 60 miles from where I live
- I haven't had a council parking ticket on my car for YEARS, I mean back in 2004 or something.
Is it a mistake?Is there ANYTHING I can do? As It's gone to debt recovery I don't imagine I can dispute it with them, I'll just get told to pay it...Also I imagine had I received contact from the council at the time, it would be half the amount (or less).
The ticket I received back in 2004 WAS a mistake so I know they do happen, it wasn't my car registration, I resolved it by sending them a picture of my car and its log book.
Why haven't I been contacted before now?
I do a fair bit of driving and don't have a particularly great memory, but I have googled the location of where this supposed ticket was issued and I have no recollection of being there-I have no reason to be there, I live miles away.
I don't understand.
I'm thinking at the moment to write to the council and explain. If I have to pay the fine I will do but I don't want to pay the £187, which is £75 'compliance stage fee'.
If anybody can advise I will be very grateful.
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I suggest, being a council one, that you may be better served by posting this on pepipoo.com, council section.I'd rather be an Optimist and be proved wrong than a Pessimist and be proved right.0
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I have never heard of that, P-t-P but I will go and have a look, thank you!0
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Best advice in respect of council-issued tickets is on Pepipoo. The link to their Council Parking Tickets, Clamping & Decriminalised Notices section is hereMy very sincere apologies for those hoping to request off-board assistance but I am now so inundated with requests that in order to do justice to those "already in the system" I am no longer accepting PM's and am unlikely to do so for the foreseeable future (August 2016).
For those seeking more detailed advice and guidance regarding small claims cases arising from private parking issues I recommend that you visit the Private Parking forum on PePiPoo.com0
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