Parking Awareness fine

Rhian07

My boyfriend has received a parking charge notice claiming that he is the registered owner of a car 'not parked fully within the confines of a marked bay' while in Blackpool a few days ago. There was no picture included to show that the car was not fully within the bay however, there were 2 members of staff working in this particular car park that day, one showing customers where the empty bays were and actually guiding them into the bay and the other one who took payment and issued the pay and display ticket. Surely if a member of staff guided the driver into the bay then this fine is a pile of rubbish? Does anyone please have any experience of this? Should I just get my boyfriend to send the template letter in the newbie thread or just get him to ignore the letter? Thanks in advance.

beamerguy

Rhian07 wrote: »

My boyfriend has received a parking charge notice claiming that he is the registered owner of a car 'not parked fully within the confines of a marked bay' while in Blackpool a few days ago. There was no picture included to show that the car was not fully within the bay however, there were 2 members of staff working in this particular car park that day, one showing customers where the empty bays were and actually guiding them into the bay and the other one who took payment and issued the pay and display ticket. Surely if a member of staff guided the driver into the bay then this fine is a pile of rubbish? Does anyone please have any experience of this? Should I just get my boyfriend to send the template letter in the newbie thread or just get him to ignore the letter? Thanks in advance.

It's not a fine, the plebbies cannot do that and yes, it is a pile of rubbish. Who is the PPC please and which location
Am assuming it is a private car park or is it council

Coupon-mad

Parking Awareness fine

PAS are an IPC firm so read the IPC firm advice in posts #1 and #3 of 'NEWBIES PLEASE READ THESE FAQS FIRST' near the top of the forum.

And after reading the NEWBIES thread of advice, read this, same as you, an IPC firm:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/71312555#Comment_71312555

Read any IPC firm post here and you'll find everyone challenging once then ignoring debt collector letters. Tell them in writing if you move house within 6 years, just to make sure you don't get caught out with a late claim you know nothing about.

But do not ignore a letter of claim from a solicitor, or MIL, or actual court papers (of course). Come back here if so.

Elysander

The Parking Prankster blogged about a similar PAS 'not parked fully within a marked bay' case last month (MIL collections lost in court!)

http://parking-prankster.blogspot.ie/2016/08/mil-collections-lose-in-court.html

fisherjim

I smell a big rat here, this exact same situation was reported on here about a month ago!

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/71107233#Comment_71107233

pappa_golf

there have been about 10 cases , all from different posters on the internet forums in the last few months , this mob know that the people that are parked are tourists to the area , and cannot get back to get details of signage ,


this case sounds like the others , where there is an attendant on site , but yet no ticket placed on the car.

Castle

pappa_golf wrote: »

there have been about 10 cases , all from different posters on the internet forums in the last few months , this mob know that the people that are parked are tourists to the area , and cannot get back to get details of signage ,

this case sounds like the others , where there is an attendant on site , but yet no ticket placed on the car.

Which is why a Dashcam comes in very handy, not only for signage, time parked but for also recording the on site attendants; make sure you have the sound recording on though.

pappa_golf

the guy (seemingly) just writes down his days quota of car VRNs , issues no tickets at the time , then forwards the VRN numbers to his office who send of letters (weeks later) for parking over a line

yotmon

Maybe a phone call to Blackpool CID needs making, someone's playing silly b*ggers by the sound of it. Only the tip of the iceberg turn up here for help so how many more out there have already been stung ?

pappa_golf

yotmon wrote: »

Maybe a phone call to Blackpool CID needs making, someone's playing silly b*ggers by the sound of it. Only the tip of the iceberg turn up here for help so how many more out there have already been stung ?

civil matter sir !

HO87

Would this be the infamous Bond Street car park by any chance? Where the guys sit/hide in the caravan just inside the gate?

Regardless of the facts of the case PAS's signage is forbidding - even in their P&D car parks and as such they cannot form the basis of a contractual offer (MIL have discontinued all PAS cases with the exception of 2 that made it to court - which they meant to discontinue too).

This would be the same PAS that seem to have a distinct problem with their P&D machines (where the car park isn't manned) that always seem to be out of operation thus catching umpteen poor innocents who leave notes only to find that once PCN's have been issued instructions appear fixed to the machines telling them pay at a nearby shop, or whatever. Whether by luck or not GSV even captured the presence of one of those notices on one of PAS's P&D machines - at their Cocker Square car park (which is actually in General Street), Blackpool. Click Here