ZZPS fine help

mermaid123_2

Hi there,

At the back end of last year my car was parked regular space at my local train station before commuting to work.

Little did we know, an independent company had come in and set new regulations regarding where you can and cannot park within this carpark.

I returned that evening to find a pcn notice on the windshield, and that day I had taken my partners car instead of my own.

We researched this particular fine and most of the advice we found stated that as an independent company (not government or police run) there was only so much they could do and likewise without proof of the driver at the time of the incident they could not press the matter much further without suing the incorrect party, so we ignored it.

We recieved two follow up letters from ZZPS stating £150 was owed in Pcn charges, having continued to ignore them we have now this morning recieved a letter from their so-called solicitors Wright and Hassle threatening court action if £168 is not paid within 14 days and that they could have a CCJ issued against my partner if we do not cooperate.

Can they do this? What would happen if we ignored this further or should we just pay and be done with???

bazster

Wright Hassall, what a great name for a solicitors' firm!

What scum parking company is it? (ZZPS is merely a debt collector, some other company issued the fake fine).

And who does the "solicitor's" letter say to contact? (I'm guessing it says to contact ZZPS, thereby giving itself away as just another threatogram from ZZPS to whom the solicitors have pimped out their letterhead).

enfield_freddy

last update on there website was 2013 http://www.wrighthassall.co.uk/knowledge/legal-articles/category/30/debt-recovery/


OP , which parking co was it ?

mermaid123_2

Thank you for your fast response.

It does say to contact themselves not ZZPS..

It looks fairly official and I'm pretty sure my partner will probably be very concerned and want to pay it. I however, would rather not if it means funding these types of predators!

Redx

you still have not named the parking company, only the debt collector

so for the third time , which PARKING COMPANY is it ?

mermaid123_2

Wow I just saw that myself, that hardly shouts that they're an upstanding business. It was Vehicle Control Services Ltd who operate the carpark and correspondence since that date has been from ZZPS only.

bazster

mermaid123 wrote: »

Thank you for your fast response.

It does say to contact themselves not ZZPS..

It looks fairly official and I'm pretty sure my partner will probably be very concerned and want to pay it. I however, would rather not if it means funding these types of predators!

It's meant to look fairly official, that doesn't mean it is. Not seen one from these "solicitors" before, it would be helpful if you could scan or photograph it and post it up (redacted of identifying details, of course). You'll need to upload it onto a picture sharing site such as Tinypic, and post a "broken" link on here (change "http" to "hxxp") so one of us can fix it and re-post it.

Was the original parking "event" before or after 29/09/2014?

bazster

Incidentally, the chances of legal action are vanishingly small. It's a railway car park so chances are it's covered by railway byelaws. This would mean it's not "relevant land" within the meaning of Schedule 4 of the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012, which in turn means that the vehicle keeper can't be held liable, only the driver could be - and they don't know who that was!

bod1467

bazster wrote: »

only the driver could be - and they don't know who that was!

Which is why we say to redact any identifiable info from anything you post up. Id also suggest editing the OP to "my car was parked", "Little did we know", and "The driver returned" and delete everything after the comma.

(3rd person speech rules)

mermaid123_2

I'm not very technically minded so I'll have a go at uploading the letter itself.

Incidentally it was just after. How come?

bazster

mermaid123 wrote: »

I'm not very technically minded so I'll have a go at uploading the letter itself.

Incidentally it was ********. How come?

Damn! VCS left the British Parking Association and joined the Independent Parking Committee on 29th September. If it'd been before that you would've had a simple, foolproof appeal route still open to you. Oh well, can't win 'em all!

Please remove the actual date from your post. The way we are heading the less potentially-identifying data you post the better. It might be best if you send a link to the image of the "solicitor's" letter to me by Private Message rather than post it in the open forum, I'll forward it on to the other regulars involved in the thread.