Parking Charge Notice

jacobtheamish

Hi All,
I received a Parking Charge Notice (dated 11/02/2015)whilst at Luton & Dunstable Hospital, with my wife who was giving birth to our second child. The Hospital has provided a parking charge waiver to be used after paying for the first £4, and valid for 24 hours.
I had displayed both the ticket and the waiver but received the ticket anyway.
I appealed via ACPOA's online service two days later (13/02/2015) but received no notification of the appeal and resumed/carried on with my life presuming they realised there error.
The next thing I received is a letter from ZZPS requesting immediate payment of £130, to which I immediately responded with a letter and included ticket and parking waiver. After several communications they passed the file back to ACPOA.
Just recieved a new letter from ZZPS the same as previous (June 2015).

I am at a loss of what to do next as I know understand the file has been passed to solicitors. Should I appeal to the BPA?

Cheers in advance for any help

Coupon-mad

Complain (not appeal) to the BPA. Email address for Steve Clark is in the Newbies thread. He'll want to see any proof of the first appeal you kept.

Secondly, at the same time, complain to PALS (Google them).

There is no solicitor, that's a lie.

fisherjim

"I am at a loss of what to do next as I know understand the file has been passed to solicitors."

I doubt that, it's all part of the threats and bluff, don't take any notice of what stupid debt collectors tell you, they say anything to get your money out of you!

Redx

APCOA dont "do" court, so although you cannot predict the future, dont worry for the present time and dont "assume" a solicitor is dealing with it unless you actually receive a proper solicitors letter from a solicitors office

put a complaint in to the BPA about being chased whilst under appeal and include copies of paperwork etc and a timeline too

dont admit who was drivmg, to anybody , keep it in the third party

complain LOUDLY to Pals and INSIST that the charge is cancelled asap

with a landowner cancellation, APCOA have no legs to stand on, and ZZPS never had any , you can ignore them completely, they are powerless

APCOA are to55er5 when it comes to english hospital car parks, the sooner they are all kicked out the better

jacobtheamish

Emailed ACPOA Chief Exec yesterday and this morning with threat I would continue each day until I had a response.

Recieved a call 10 minutes later to say case dropped.

Thank you all for your help, money is tight enough with a new baby without these thugs threatening legal action.

Cheers

Redx

well done, although I thought it would have been the trust CEO myself , not APCOA CEO, lol

once you get a written cancellation letter, complain to the trust and remind them of the Jeremy Hunt statement from august 2014 , where he makes the trusts responsible for their agents actions

again, well done , common sense prevails for a change