DRP letter 3 months later

andycris3107

I just received a letter from Debt Recovery Plus on 3rd October in reference to a parking charge on 17th July.

I have received no notification previously so this letter is out of the blue.

Calling them to find out more they were incredibly abusive and made me out to be a criminal and actually put the phone down on me when I asked for the persons name.

I called back and spoke to someone much nicer who said that they have received a parking claim from a company called Horizon parking related to a Sainsburys car park near where I live. The alleged parking claim date was around a month after I moved house, but they seem to say that a notice to keeper request returned my old address from DVLA even though I did inform them of my new address when I moved.

My question then is how to proceed. I can't appeal the parking charge as I never received anything. I've told DRP that I want them to refer it back to Horizon but they won't.

From what I understand DRP can't take me to court but Horizon can - but do they actually do this very often?

Umkomaas

From what I understand DRP can't take me to court but Horizon can - but do they actually do this very often?

You'd be their very first!

http://www.bmpa.eu/companydata/Horizon_Parking.html

Ignore anything further from DRP - they're powerless. While Horizon have never attempted court, they have 6 years to do so. No one can predict what they will do between now and 2022, so always be on the look out for court papers, which must not be ignored.

Did you notify the DVLA twice of your change of address - once for your driver licence and separately for your V5C; there's no read-across one to the other? If not you're looking at a real fine - up to £1,000.

Coupon-mad

Actually I'm sure Gladstones have served a few Horizon claims recently (not many though and Gladstones have been shown to muck them up). You MUST make sure they have your new address and NOT by phone! Stop ringing DRPlus, why do people ring these scummy firms thinking they have some sort of Customer Service ethic?

Email your new address to DRPlus, quoting the PCN number and the DRPlus 'reference' from the letter:

info@drpl.co.uk

That's all. Do that even if you told them your new address over the phone; stop reaching for that phone. Keep that sent email!

As you will now be worrying about this for up to six years, there is ONE major next step:

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

DO THAT!

Let your MP and Mrs May hear about how this awful threat is affecting you and what you think about the rotten greedy 'parking industry'! Write your own or use the template provided by the BMPA.

Do not panic and don't even think about paying. Do not be a victim. Just fight back via your MP and the Government, now.

Show them the rubbish you have received, explain about the problem with moving house and the DVLA giving your OLD address and ask why the Government thinks it is OK for consumers to be 'credit clamped' with a threat of court for SIX YEARS by this rotten industry of money-grabbers and ex-clampers? using old addresses for court claims is a particular issue Mrs May has pledged to put a stop to (see page one of that linked thread).