Parking eye letter before court! Help

gibbzy2k1

My wife has received this letter, which I will add picture of later, for being 15 mins over the 2 hours stay in a free car park. They say the fine in £100 and we have 14 days until they move it on to court. Because of the holiday we have only just recieved this letter 8 days after it was dated so time is running out.

Is it now too late to do anything?

Browntoa

Read the newbies thread , it contains the template replies you need to send to PE and then POPLA when they supply the code

There is no "loss " in a free car park and £100 is not a genuine estimate of loss (GPEOL)

Where is the car park ? , complain to the manager of the shop , what is the date they claim this happened

Redx

read the LBCCC thread in the crabman sticky thread first (if it is an LBCCC)

also read the NEWBIES sticky thread to try to understand this invoice

complain LOUDLY to the LANDOWNER asap for a cancellation asap

if its only the first NTK invoice, appeal it

ps:- its not a "fine", despite what you may believe

Marktheshark

Name the driver to reset the clock.
You have until formal legal proceedings are lodged to do so.

Umkomaas

If the Registered Keeper was not the driver, then the RK should write to PE with the driver's name and address for service. This will discharge any obligation the RK may have had and PE will have to pursue the driver.

Please read NEWBIES FAQ sticky for details of this procedure.

If it can be turned back to this stage, the charge can be easily overturned with our help.

PE often issue court papers especially if the LBCCC is ignored, so if you're not able to 'name the driver' as per above, you need to read zzLazyDaisy's LBCCC advice, contained in another sticky (collated by Crabman). Both above stickies are near the top of the forum index, one page back from here.

In parallel (not instead of) you should be making a complaint to the landholder/retailer on whose car park the parking event took place. Again contained in the NEWBIES FAQ sticky (post #6), there are examples of how a good old fashioned complaint to the right person in the organisation can effectively have these charges dropped.

Coupon-mad

gibbzy2k1 wrote: »

My wife has received this letter, which I will add picture of later, for being 15 mins over the 2 hours stay in a free car park. They say the fine in £100 and we have 14 days until they move it on to court. Because of the holiday we have only just recieved this letter 8 days after it was dated so time is running out.

Is it now too late to do anything?

Two options, either will get this cancelled:


- the keeper writes and names the driver (name and postal address of the driver who WAS - remember? - a different person than the keeper - oh yes they were!)
OR
- the keeper writes with a receipt or proof of purchases that day of over £30 and also complains to the retailers, Store Managers/Head Offices or the landowner.

Both scenarios are fully covered in the Newbies thread.