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  • hoohoo
    hoohoo Posts: 1,717 Forumite
    Dear DRP,

    I deny any debt exists. Please refer the matter to your principal. For the avoidance of doubt I will only pay if a judge rules against me. Any further letters will be considered harassment and I reserve the right to charge my time and expenses when dealing with them.
    Dedicated to driving up standards in parking
  • I have drafted the below to send to DRP - thoughts and comments greatly received. (Please note I'm a first timer!) still need to draft something to send to UKPC.



    Dear Sirs

    I am writing to you in response to your most recent correspondence dated xx xxxxxxxxxx 2014. I am writing as the registered keeper of vehicle ....... And previous registered keeper of vehicle ........

    I deny any debt to yourselves or UKPC. Please refer this matter back to your client immediately.

    Please do not contact me further regarding this matter. Any further letters will be considered harassment and I reserve the right to charge for my time and expenses when dealing with them.

    I look forward to hearing from UKPC directly regarding this matter.

    Yours faithfully

    Print name ......
  • Coupon-mad
    Coupon-mad Posts: 152,534 Forumite
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    Yep that's fine. More important is to get a robust letter (NOT APPEAL, NOT A BEGGING LETTER OF EXCUSES) sent out to UKPC and the Managing Agent/landowner, in the style already linked above.
    PRIVATE 'PCN'? DON'T PAY BUT DON'T IGNORE IT (except N.Ireland).
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    Home»Motoring»Parking Tickets Fines & Parking - read the NEWBIES THREAD
  • Thank you CM.

    I will send this one off this morning and meanwhile work on a more robust approach to UKPC.

    In my ignorance - do I wait to hear from UKPC again regarding the matter or do I write to them as well anyway?

    Thanks
  • Quentin
    Quentin Posts: 40,405 Forumite
    edited 19 December 2014 at 4:06PM
    Coupon-mad wrote: »
    Well it's been covered on other threads and by the Parking Prankster - it's changed hands and they aren't contracting out defences now.
    According to a recent post from Bargepole you (and Prankster) are directors of a rival company that undercuts them.


    You sure that has nothing to do with you sowing seeds of doubt about the competency of the competition you used to work for?
  • Coupon-mad
    Coupon-mad Posts: 152,534 Forumite
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    Quentin wrote: »
    According to a recent post from Bargepole you (and Prankster) are directors of a rival company that undercuts them.

    You sure that has nothing to do with you sowing seeds of doubt about the competency of the competition you used to work for?
    100% sure - I have posted facts. When you say 'used to work for' can I clarify some of us merely used to be paid (4 times in my case, that's all) to write defences - but that was when PTAS used to provide people with bespoke versions. They are not contracting out defences now.
    PRIVATE 'PCN'? DON'T PAY BUT DON'T IGNORE IT (except N.Ireland).
    CLICK at the top or bottom of any page where it says:
    Home»Motoring»Parking Tickets Fines & Parking - read the NEWBIES THREAD
  • Hi guys.

    I have today sent off my letter to DRP.

    Do I now wait to hear from UKPC or do I write to them now?

    I guess I also write to complain to the land owner now? I am going to dig out my leasehold documents at the weekend and have a good read of the details regarding the parking arrangements.

    Thanks
  • Umkomaas
    Umkomaas Posts: 43,415 Forumite
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    Neddy139 wrote: »
    Hi guys.

    I have today sent off my letter to DRP.

    Do I now wait to hear from UKPC or do I write to them now?

    I guess I also write to complain to the land owner now? I am going to dig out my leasehold documents at the weekend and have a good read of the details regarding the parking arrangements.

    Thanks
    Coupon-mad wrote: »
    Yep that's fine. More important is to get a robust letter (NOT APPEAL, NOT A BEGGING LETTER OF EXCUSES) sent out to UKPC and the Managing Agent/landowner, in the style already linked above.

    I think CM's advice here is pretty clear.
    Please note, we are not a legal advice forum. I personally don't get involved in critiquing court case Defences/Witness Statements, so unable to help on that front. Please don't ask. .

    I provide only my personal opinion, it is not a legal opinion, it is simply a personal one. I am not a lawyer.

    Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; show him how to catch fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.

    Private Parking Firms - Killing the High Street
  • Neddy139 wrote: »
    Hi guys.

    I have today sent off my letter to DRP.

    Do I now wait to hear from UKPC or do I write to them now?

    I guess I also write to complain to the land owner now? I am going to dig out my leasehold documents at the weekend and have a good read of the details regarding the parking arrangements.

    Thanks


    yes find the lease documents and examine them.


    No doubt you also have a management company -who would have engaged UKPC for the alleged "abusive" parking where you live. You are no doubt paying the management company for the upkeep of communal areas.UKPC pay 10% cashback to their client for every paid parking charge

    Google Tospig thread or funny Munny - both UKPC with tickets at their own place.

    Send a cease and desist letter to the parking company and management company.


    Can you confirm if you live England or Wales also?

    Sadly with the number of parking charges you have - a small claim is on the cards.



    @ Coupon Mad - IIRC the couple had more than one parking charge each :-)
  • Thanks!

    Probably should have re-read previous posts more thoroughly.

    :)
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