CPP parking fine

clemunderwood

Hello,
I was wondering if someone could offer me some advice on the topic of a CPP parking ticket. I got the ticket in June for parking in a Bristol University sports centre where i am a student . The original charge was 50 or 60 and then went up to 100 in July which i understand is the NTK and now I have received multiple threatening letters culminating from DRP (Debt Recovery Plus) that the charge is 160 and they are threatening debt collectors if i do not pay. Threatening me with the fact that there is a landmark ruling of a case Beavis-v-ParkingEye Ltd and that they are going to take me to the county court and get a judgement against me. As yet i have done nothing and really need some advice to know what to do. The letters are getting pretty threatening and as a student i do not have the money to pay the fine. Should i just carry on ignoring them or should i try to appeal? Any help or advice would be hugely appreciated!
Clem

Fruitcake

Ignoring private parking tickets has not been advised here since the law changed in 2012.

Please read the Sticky thread for NEWBIES for future reference. It details all the information you need on how to beat this type of parking scam.
It also tells you why it is safe to ignore debt collectors.

There is nothing stopping you from making a late appeal, but you will need to tell the parking scammers that Changes in EU law last year say that appeals should be allowed (Alternative Dispute Resolution) for up to a year, and it will make you look reasonable and them unreasonable should they decide to refuse your appeal.


"It is the will of Parliament, as a result of the EU Consumer Rights Directive, that ADRs must imminently be made available for not less than a year."

The directive you want begins ...

S T A T U T O R Y I N S T R U M E N T S
2015 No. 542
CONSUMER PROTECTION
The Alternative Dispute Resolution for Consumer Disputes (Competent Authorities and Information) Regulations 2015
Made - - - - 16th March 2015
Laid before Parliament 17th March 2015
Coming into force for the purposes of Parts 1 to 3 7th April 2015
for the purposes of Parts 4 & 5 9th July 2015
The Secretary of State, as a Minister designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(a), in relation to matters relating to consumer protection(b), makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of that Act.
PART 1
General
Citation and commencement
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Alternative Dispute Resolution for Consumer Disputes (Competent Authorities and Information) Regulations 2015. (2) Parts 1 to 3 come into force on 7th April 2015. (3) Parts 4 and 5 come into force on 9th July 2015.


Do an internet search to find the relevant sections to quote to the parking company about the UK Government's requirements.

Nobody here will advise you to pay.

fisherjim

It's not a fine it's a speculative invoice.

Debt Recovery Plus aren't threatening you with debt collectors, they ARE debt collectors, they are also Muppets and can be ignored!

beamerguy

clemunderwood wrote: »

Hello,
I was wondering if someone could offer me some advice on the topic of a CPP parking ticket. I got the ticket in June for parking in a Bristol University sports centre where i am a student . The original charge was 50 or 60 and then went up to 100 in July which i understand is the NTK and now I have received multiple threatening letters culminating from DRP (Debt Recovery Plus) that the charge is 160 and they are threatening debt collectors if i do not pay. Threatening me with the fact that there is a landmark ruling of a case Beavis-v-ParkingEye Ltd and that they are going to take me to the county court and get a judgement against me. As yet i have done nothing and really need some advice to know what to do. The letters are getting pretty threatening and as a student i do not have the money to pay the fine. Should i just carry on ignoring them or should i try to appeal? Any help or advice would be hugely appreciated!
Clem

Hey Clem,

DRP are the saddest bunch of nutters around.
YOU IGNORE THE RUBBISH THEY SEND YOU
THEY HAVE NO POWER
TALKING ABOUT MR BEAVIS, WHATEVER NEXT ?
SIMPLY IGNORE THESE POWERLESS SO CALLED DEBT COLLECTORS

If CPP wish to continue after using cr*p like DRP they will let
you know in due course. If CPP want to take this further they will let you know and then you come back here.

IGNORE DRP THEY ENJOY WASTING THEIR TIME ... ENJOY IT

If any of your friends get caught in the scam, TELL THEM TO IGNORE DRP

We have been telling people for months to ignore DRP. but the nutter PPC's still use them ...... really is time to play a new tune and if the PPC's do, the story is the same IGNORE THEM

Coupon-mad

clemunderwood wrote: »

Hello,
I was wondering if someone could offer me some advice on the topic of a CPP parking ticket. I got the ticket in June for parking in a Bristol University sports centre where i am a student . The original charge was 50 or 60 and then went up to 100 in July which i understand is the NTK and now I have received multiple threatening letters culminating from DRP (Debt Recovery Plus) that the charge is 160 and they are threatening debt collectors if i do not pay.

Threatening me with the fact that there is a landmark ruling of a case Beavis-v-ParkingEye Ltd and that they are going to take me to the county court and get a judgement against me. As yet i have done nothing and really need some advice to know what to do.

The letters are getting pretty threatening and as a student i do not have the money to pay the fine. Should i just carry on ignoring them or should i try to appeal? Any help or advice would be hugely appreciated!
Clem

We can't answer your poll because the answer is neither!

Do not contact debt collectors, as it's got to that stage, just laugh at their letters. They are not threatening if you know what to expect in the daft chain of threatograms:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5035663

And try Google searching 'Debt Recovery plus letter' and clicking IMAGES to see all the pictures people have proudly pasted up on forums over the past DECADE.

Search this forum board for the words 'Recovery Plus Landmark' !! Covered umpteen times here already, that tedious letter.

Like everyone else, come back if you get a solicitor's letter or court claim (NOT TO BE IGNORED).

Oh, and while you are still a student there, get some photos of the signs NOW in case they try to sue over this in a couple of years time when you've moved on. Also make sure you do keep them updated with any address change over six years because you could end up getting a default CCJ unknown to you, to an old address, if you don't. Read this and be very alarmed:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5524754

So, as all that sounds like a pain, how about joining our campaign and (as mentioned in that thread) send Mrs May by mail, a hard copy (not email - make it a task for them to read it) of the threatogams that you, as an honest and diligent (poor) University Student, are being bombarded with and ask, in a covering letter pouring your heart out about how this makes you feel, whether she thinks it's fair that if you got a Council PCN you could pay £25 and it would be gone, yet when it's a bunch of photo-doctoring ex-clampers:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/11858473/Parking-firm-UKPC-admits-faking-tickets-to-fine-drivers.html

...apparently people are fair game for £200 or more and a CCJ. It is astonishing that the UK Supreme Court (after the awful Beavis decision) effectively sent out a signal and 'green light' to parking sharks that consumers are fair game for 'private penalties and now ordinary people are having to duck the possibility - for SIX YEARS - of their credit being CLAMPED by an industry that operates close to the 'dirty tricks' edge of the law. This is worse than car clamping - get angry and fight back - also copy in your MP.