A Right Hassle

Andy_Mann

Ok, thanks. I think the thing I find overwhelming with this stuff on MSE is just the sheer wealth of info/posts/differing threads. I appreciate your time to respond and will endeavour to sort out my issue.

Redx

the trick is to decide on each issue you wish answers for and use words in the search box to find threads about the issue, especially recent posts so from 2016 only and then decide if the issue has been resolved or not

if not, read a few more and if still unresolved then ask, which then means somebody may answer or point you at certain topics or threads or posts

if you think the answers may be common ones, assume they are already on here and find them

if you cannot find the answers after spending some time looking , ask away

if you think you are the first person to have such a problem , I guarantee you that you are not , hence the answers are here , somewhere

Coupon-mad

Andy_Mann wrote: »

Ok, thanks. I think the thing I find overwhelming with this stuff on MSE is just the sheer wealth of info/posts/differing threads. I appreciate your time to respond and will endeavour to sort out my issue.

As long as you don't PAY it and fund the scam.

if they try to claim, wouldn't the costs just potentially escalate for me?

No, typical £150/£175 all told if a person loses at a hearing re a £100 PCN. Big deal! And most (99% of) cases never go near a court and are best ignored at debt collector threatogram stage. Personally I would wait and see if they try a claim - and 'they' is not likely to be WH, seeing as their 'letters' are generally from debt collectors.

Come back when you get the parking firm's 'evidence pack' re the one at POPLA. Which parking firm is that one and what did your POPLA appeal say?

The_Deep

If you fight at an early stage they are less likely to take you to court, especially if they see that you have involved MSE/PPE. Thsat is why so many duck out at PoPLA stage.

Whether WH are involved, or they have farmed it out to a DCA, if their name is on the letterhead, they are responsible for its content.

If anything in their letter is not the sort of thing a solicitore should be saying, send a complaint to the SRA, hundreds before you have.

Write to Duncan Allen, here

http://www.sra.org.uk/consumers/problems/report-solicitor.page

Andy_Mann

Thanks for the comments and feedback so far. I appreciate your time and patience in explaining something that you have probably explained a dozen or so times before. It crossed my mind recently that it might be helpful and useful if the experts here on MSE forums combined skills to create an easy to follow flow chart as it may say you time and new PCN recipients either getting lost in the midden of previous posts or having to explain the same stuff/link stuff over and over. I'd say that as an infogram, a flow chart is fairly idiot proof and could potentially help a lot of people understand their place in the process.

Coupon-mad

I tried a flow-chart once and it didn't work because there are far to many ifs and buts. Maybe my heart wasn't in it because in my line of job, personally I don't like flow-charts much as they are too simplistic for certain things which are better set out as written instructions and examples.

Having said that, we did have a 'step-by-step guide' at one point but it's now out of date.

But if another regular wants to try one then I would link it in the NEWBIES thread.

Andy_Mann

Thanks again for your input. On a side note, what would be the most sensible thing to do regarding the inconvenient fact that all the letters are addressed to my wife, the vehicle owner, who wasn't present or the driver on the days the tickets were issued? It just adds another ball-ache the overall ball-ache of the situation.

Umkomaas

If the driver hasn't been identified then there is protection provided to the keeper if the PPC has failed to comply with every requirement of PoFA. To be honest, that's the best position you can be in.

You need to edit any post here that you've made which identifies the driver.

Coupon-mad

Andy_Mann wrote: »

Thanks again for your input. On a side note, what would be the most sensible thing to do regarding the inconvenient fact that all the letters are addressed to my wife, the vehicle owner, who wasn't present or the driver on the days the tickets were issued? It just adds another ball-ache the overall ball-ache of the situation.

That's not a side note - it's a vital piece of information you didn't mention, unless I missed it.

You should be replying in the name of the keeper (your wife) of course. Every thread you care to read tells you that, including the NEWBIES FAQs. She has the very best line of defence. A driver has less. I hope you have not responded in your name.

yotmon

Andy_Mann wrote: »

Fruitcake :
In all honesty, it's a confusing arrangement...apparently the larger construction company I've been working for own the land, but have leased it to NSGL as a car park, a dedicated staff and subcontractors area has been set aside for permit holders, the rest of the area has been going through an identity crisis of being part storage, part overspill parking.

If your employer/company own the land then get onto them to get the tickets cancelled. By the sound of it, you have been issued a permit to park there legitimately. Are NSGL being employed by your company to 'manage' the car park or have they leased the land to them ? They are there to prevent non-permit holders from parking, not to harass legit permit holders who are there to carry out a days work.