UKPC Parking Charge

Wendy4220

Hello, I'm on holiday with my dad in Bournemouth. He is a disabled badge holder and we parked in a disabled parking space in a shopping centre car park. I genuinely didn't see any parking charge signs or a ticket machine and we went shopping for a couple of hours. When we returned we had a ticket on the windscreen for £70 and £40 if we paid in 14 days. I've read a few posts saying don't pay and a newspaper article about this company. I am in the wrong as I didn't get a ticket - in Scotland where we are from you don't pay if you are a disabled badge holder and it was only after getting the ticket I noticed a ticket machine. £40 seems very expensive. Is there any recent advice of what to do as most posts are a few years old.

beamerguy

Wendy4220 wrote: »

Hello, I'm on holiday with my dad in Bournemouth. He is a disabled badge holder and we parked in a disabled parking space in a shopping centre car park. I genuinely didn't see any parking charge signs or a ticket machine and we went shopping for a couple of hours. When we returned we had a ticket on the windscreen for £70 and £40 if we paid in 14 days. I've read a few posts saying don't pay and a newspaper article about this company. I am in the wrong as I didn't get a ticket - in Scotland where we are from you don't pay if you are a disabled badge holder and it was only after getting the ticket I noticed a ticket machine. £40 seems very expensive. Is there any recent advice of what to do as most posts are a few years old.

You have been given a ticket by one of the parking low life.

I assume the disabled badge was displayed.

UKPC are going to struggle if the vehicle is registered in scotland.
Others will be along shortly wth advice.

In the meantime here is more reading for you about this infamous bunch of cowboys

http://parking-prankster.blogspot.co.uk/search?q=ukpc

And, just the other day ....

http://parking-prankster.blogspot.co.uk/2016/05/bargepole-spanks-ukpc-in-court-no.html

Bargepole and Salmosalaris are members of this forum so this is your lucky day

Wendy4220

Hi thanks for the info. Yes his Scottish badge and the English part we were given by our local council to make it valid in England were displayed. My car is also registered in Scotland. We have paid at several car parks since we started our holiday even when parking in disabled bays, which we don't have to do in Scotland where it appears people with a disability are treated better!!! I didn't see any parking charges sign when entering the car park and it was only after getting the ticket that I saw the UKPC signs high up on a post. I think it was only a couple of pound to park so £40 fine seems ridiculous. Any further advice would be appreciated

beamerguy

Wendy4220 wrote: »

Hi thanks for the info. Yes his Scottish badge and the English part we were given by our local council to make it valid in England were displayed. My car is also registered in Scotland. We have paid at several car parks since we started our holiday even when parking in disabled bays, which we don't have to do in Scotland where it appears people with a disability are treated better!!! I didn't see any parking charges sign when entering the car park and it was only after getting the ticket that I saw the UKPC signs high up on a post. I think it was only a couple of pound to park so £40 fine seems ridiculous. Any further advice would be appreciated

UKPC are ridiculous. Signs in car parks are very important which UKPC fail to understand. Are you still able to go and take a picture of the sign, which car park was it.

Regardless the vehicle is registered in scotland and no doubt, UKPC will ignore that.
You can appeal to UKPC but as they are only interested in your money, they will no doubt reject it. See the newbies thread for this.

They will then give you the opportunity to appeal to POPLA and give you a code, POPLA is classed as an independent appeals service.
This costs UKPC money to give you the code.

So, if your appeal is rejected by UKPC and then in turn by POPLA, UKPC may well remind you and if you ignore them, they pass it so called debt collectors who are POWERLESS and behave like rabid dogs with threatening letters and lies ..... IGNORE THEM

ONLY UKPC can take you to court and that is where their problem starts because your car is registered in scotland. If they were stupid enough to do this, they must have the drivers name

YOU WILL NEVER TELL THEM WHO WAS DRIVING. They get the keepers name from the DVLA
ALL CORRESPONDENCE IS ONLY FROM THE KEEPER

NEVER phone them or admit to anything

Wendy4220

Hi, it was the sovereign shopping centre in Bournemouth. What difference does it make that my car is registered in Scotland? Should I just ignore all correspondence then? Or should I appeal? I do feel bad as I would happily have bought a ticket but I really thought it was a free car park .

Coupon-mad

Wendy4220 wrote: »

Hi, it was the sovereign shopping centre in Bournemouth. What difference does it make that my car is registered in Scotland? Should I just ignore all correspondence then? Or should I appeal? I do feel bad as I would happily have bought a ticket but I really thought it was a free car park .

This is already in the NEWBIES READ THIS FIRST thread near the top of the forum! Scotland is covered already (which includes people living in Scotland even if the parking event was in England).

Is there any recent advice of what to do as most posts are a few years old.

No, most of the posts on the first two or three forum list pages are from today if you read today's thread list instead of randomly Googling. Why even look at years old stuff, hop with one click to page one, literally one click away right now.

You needed to simply read the forum page one and the sticky thread at the top (NO LINK GIVEN).