Parking Charge with No Authority to Enforce!

zardoz70

Well the code of practice says they should be uniformed and any vehicle should have company markings. If not then that is another club to beat them with. :-)

The_Slithy_Tove

keonuk wrote: »

I have informed Total Fitness head office of this issue, strangely they are only available via email.

I hope you weren't planning to inform them only by phone! How about a letter (you know, something on paper) to their registered office, addressed to the Company Secretary (preferably by name).

keonuk wrote: »

I am still waiting on a signed letter from Total Fitness, however i do have email proof from the manager that they wasn't contracted at all in 2015.

Not the end of the world if you don't, as you'll be putting UKCPS to strict proof that they had a valid contract at the time. They won't be able to do this.

bazster

The_Slithy_Tove wrote: »

I hope you weren't planning to inform them only by phone! How about a letter (you know, something on paper) to their registered office, addressed to the Company Secretary (preferably by name).

Total Fitness Health Clubs Ltd
Wilmslow Way
Handforth
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 3PE

The_Slithy_Tove wrote: »

Not the end of the world if you don't, as you'll be putting UKCPS to strict proof that they had a valid contract at the time. They won't be able to do this.

The potential problem being that they might produce a contract covering the relevant dates whilst concealing any subsequent cancellation of it.

stu-d41

UKCPS use the BPA logo on all their correspondence as well as their website.

upon checking the BPA approved members they are not on the list.

I am unable to paste the link as a new user.

can this be also used against them in court?

bazster

I can't see the BPA logo on their website. But even it it were there it's of no use in defending a court claim from them.

stu-d41

bazster,

it is present on their compliance page and also used on all written correspondence

Coupon-mad

They might still be members of the BPA. Doesn't mean they are an 'AOS member' (round logo with AOS in the wording).

bazster

stu-d41 wrote: »

bazster,

it is present on their compliance page and also used on all written correspondence

Well if you'd said that in the first place! I wasn't going to wade through the whole poxy website checking every page.

They probably are BPA members. There's nothing to say you can't be a member of both the BPA and the IPC. What they are not is members of the BPA's Accredited Operator Scheme (AOS), and indeed the AOS roundel is not visible on that page:

keonuk

I spoken to UKCPS today - told them that I had written confirmation that they wasn't authorised to be handing out invoices on the car park in question.

Her response (after being on hold for a few mins) was "I have just checked and this ticket is valid and going ahead"..... i replied with the fact I have written proof from the landowner that you are wrong, her response: "You'll have to prove that in court".

Let the games begin.

Coupon-mad

Don't phone them ever. EVER.