UKPC and Disabled Parking Notices

activeviii

Thanks HalfWay,

I have tried a few times to take in the sticky information, but I'm finding it hard work. for a normal minded person i guess its straight forward.

I was driving the wifes car at the time. Parked in a disabled bay outside currys store, Gateway Retail Park, Tewkesbury Road, Cheltenham. GL51 9DU.
I did have my Blue badge with me but forgot to put them up
no cost to park in any of the parking bays but there was a sigh above car, i did not notice it or i would have remembered the badges,

I can see it just getting paid and lesson learnt not to shop there again. I really am that bad at trying to take information in.


thanks again for all your help

Kind regards
Phil.

fisherjim

activeviii wrote: »

Thanks HalfWay,

I have tried a few times to take in the sticky information, but I'm finding it hard work. for a normal minded person i guess its straight forward.

I was driving the wifes car at the time. Parked in a disabled bay outside currys store, Gateway Retail Park, Tewkesbury Road, Cheltenham. GL51 9DU.
I did have my Blue badge with me but forgot to put them up
no cost to park in any of the parking bays but there was a sigh above car, i did not notice it or i would have remembered the badges,

I can see it just getting paid and lesson learnt not to shop there again. I really am that bad at trying to take information in.


thanks again for all your help

Kind regards
Phil.

No one on here is going to suggest you pay this scam charge, and UKPC make a habit of preying on easy targets that look like they will cough up.
Look at it this way if you don't put in a little effort and just pay these shysters all you will be doing is contributing to their tame attendants bonus, and the UKPC bosses next Range Rover and extension to his already over sized house in Buckinghamshire nothing else!
Your money will not go to charity, or to supporting local services or public transport, it also urges them on to scam yet another victim. But of course it is your choice!

Redx

by paying them you allow them to sc@m more people like you (and me)

if you cannot deal with this yourself, have a look at the paid for appeal service on parking cowboys website

activeviii

17 phone calls and 4 emails and still no one can point in the right direction.

Macarthur Wilson are the retail management company who say BP investment Managment are the owners.
BP say they only do petrol stations.

to appeal you need to write a letter but then reading all i have it looks like it will be rejected either way so back to square one.

wait will the enforcement notice comes in, let the bailiffs knock the door. let it go to court and they end up paying all costs and then they get sued under the equality law 2010.

to ill and £0 bank balance to pay anything so will have to let them come knocking.
not sure what else i can do at the moment.

thank chaps for all your input

Phil

bod1467

I've no idea who you talked to at BP. If it was the local filling station then I'm not surprised at the answer you got. BP are far bigger than simply doing "petrol stations" ... I mean, do you not remember all the kerfuffle about the Deep Water Horizon incident?

BP Investment Management Limited (BPIM) is an asset management arm of BP plc. The firm manages pension funds for its parent company. It invests in the public equity, fixed income, and alternative investments markets across the globe. The firm typically makes its alternative investments in real-estate and private equity. BP Investment Management was founded in 1936 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

http://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=24587069

BP p.l.c. operates as an integrated oil and gas company worldwide. It operates in three segments: Upstream, Downstream, and Rosneft. The Upstream segment engages in the oil and natural gas exploration, field development, and production; midstream transportation, and storage and processing; and marketing and trade of natural gas, including liquefied natural gas (LNG), and power and natural gas liquids (NGL). It also owns and manages crude oil and natural gas pipelines; processing facilities and export terminals; and LNG processing facilities and transportation, as well as NGL extraction business. The Downstream segment refines, manufactures, markets, transports, supplies, and trades in crude oil, petroleum, and petrochemicals products and related services to wholesale and retail customers. It offers lubricants and related products under the Castrol, BP, and Aral brands to the automotive, industrial, marine, and energy markets; and petrochemicals products, such as purified terephthalic acid, paraxylene, acetic acid, olefins and derivatives, and specialty petrochemicals products. This segment also sells gasoline, diesel, and aviation fuel. The Rosneft segment engages in the exploration and production of hydrocarbons in the United States, Canada, Vietnam, Venezuela, Brazil, Algeria, the United Arab Emirates, Turkmenistan, and Norway; and offers jet fuel, bunkering, bitumen, and lubricants. This segment also owns and operates 10 refineries in Russia; and has an interest in 4 refineries in Germany. As of December 31, 2014, this segment owned and operated approximately 2,500 retail service stations in Russia. The company also produces bioethanol, sugar, and biobutanol; exports power to the local grid; transports hydrocarbon products through shipping and chartering services; and holds interests in 16 operating wind farms with a generation capacity of 2,585 megawatts. BP p.l.c. was founded in 1889 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

http://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=394466

activeviii

I spoke to the letting agent who passed on the details for the land management company.
i will try again tomorrow. when the lady that deals with the currys site is back in office

Fruitcake

activeviii wrote: »

I spoke to the letting agent who passed on the details for the land management company.
i will try again tomorrow. when the lady that deals with the currys site is back in office

Meanwhile, wait for the NTK in the post as advised. This should arrive between 29 and 56 days after the parking event. That gives you plenty of time to read and re-read the NEWBIES thread. If it doesn't arrive within those timescales it is another appeal point.

Once the NTK arrives, use the template appeal letter in the aforementioned NEWBIES thread and send it to the parking company. Don't send it too soon after the NTK arrives, but don't miss the appeal deadline. Use ALL the appeal points in the template plus an additional point that as one of the occupants of the car was disabled and pursueing this parking charge is a breach of the EA 2010.

If it is not cancelled, read the NEWBIES thread again to determine what to do next.

Complain to Currys' CEO about the disgusting way one of their customers is being treated stating that if he/she doesn't intervene you and all your family and friends will shop elsewhere in the future. The fact that Currys don't own the land is irrelevant. It may prompt them to contact the landowner on your behalf.

When you appeal, do not mention who was driving. Use termi9nology such as, "the driver did this, one of the occupants was disabled"; not, "I did this, I am disabled." Never, ever 'phone a parking company.

Umkomaas

The fact that Currys don't own the land is irrelevant. It may prompt them to contact the landowner on your behalf.

If Currys don't own the land and have no contractual relationship with UKPC, they should be equally concerned about your PCN as you, as an outside agency is detrimentally affecting their business, by harassing customers they will inevitably lose.

There's definitely a very odd mentality among retailers, including Morrisons, Aldi, Lidl, Tesco, Asda, Sainsburys, B&M, (to name a few of the usual suspects) where their bottom line is a second order issue as long as rogue parkers are chased off their car parks.

Trouble is - rogue parkers are long gone. It's just their (soon to be former) customers who are facing this shi/te, with absolutely no protection from the outfits who rely on them for their existence as companies and jobs as staff. You couldn't make some of this stuff up!

activeviii

spoke to currys and was passed to the store manager who basically now has lost a sale plus friends and family. he got on his high horse about it all. fine, lost customers will be the downfall of his and all the staffs jobs when they aren't getting the footfall into store.

i have just spoke to the MD's assistant of the land owner who passed on the details for who i need to speak to. they are phoning me back tomorrow as not in office.

will update once i know more.


thanks again guys

ATB
Phil.

aguynameddarryl

Umkomaas wrote: »

A rather embarrassing exposure of 'knowledge', I'm sorry to say!

Knowledge perhaps.

The sentiment is bang on, in my opinion. How should the PPC have known that the driver/passenger was disabled?