DRP & NApier

JBlackmore_2

Need help re: DRP & Napier Parking letters.

Received Napier parking PCN which I contested by explaining that our engineer was attending a gas leak but they have rejected it and are now sending debt recovery letters from DRP.

I would attache links to this thread but as im a new user it wont allow me

pogofish

Post four of the Newbies Sticky will inform you fully.

Don't waste any time or worry over DRP.

Coupon-mad

We don't need to see those letters thanks, read this and ignore anything except a real court claim:

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

We've seen enough DRP letters to paper Buckingham Palace! Ignore them completely. No they cannot impose a CCJ or affect your credit record.

If you are a company firm and you appealed immediately in the company name to a windscreen PCN, can you tell us, did Napier send the company a 'Notice to Keeper'?

And if the driver was attending a gas leak called by the site landowner, complain on headed notepaper to the landowner to cancel it immediately. Napier are only the agents of the landowner and have to jump if you can get the landowner to say 'jump'!

JBlackmore_2

We appealed immediately upon receipht od the Notice to keeper but we did not receive a PCN even though the photos Napier sent you can see a yellow baggy attached to the windscreen of our can.

The location is in Hendon NW9

The job was for a private customer and not a landlord.

pogofish

Have you read post four yet?

Don't worry about DRP toilet paper!

safarmuk

What is on the land and who were you visiting - was it a block of flats and a tenant?

If so then you should escalate to the Management Company and the Freeholder. I doubt either would agree that someone attending a call out for a suspected gas leak should be penalised like this.

Coupon-mad

JBlackmore wrote: »

We appealed immediately upon receipht od the Notice to keeper but we did not receive a PCN even though the photos Napier sent you can see a yellow baggy attached to the windscreen of our can.

The location is in Hendon NW9

The job was for a private customer and not a landlord.

Private customer who lived in flats on the same site where you parked? Or a business on that site?

Either of those would have certain rights of way including a likely right or easement allowing (probably) for a Gas Engineer to park to access the property re an emergency call out gas leak. Tell us if this was a homeowner with a communal car park or a business in an industrial car park area?

I would respond telling them that the driver was on emergency call-out to attend (blah blah) and as the customer was a resident/business on site, the vehicular access was a right or easement under the grant under the lease of the customer on site. No permit is required in such emergency circumstances or life in a block of flats (or business car park) would be ''unworkable'', as was held by Judge Harris QC in Jopson v Homeguard.

Finish by saying if they disagree you will defend this in court and they will be liable for the cost of a Company Director having to appear as witness as well as the driver, who was doing his job - faffing around getting permits is clearly not appropriate for an emergency gas leak - and a penalty is unrecoverable in these circumstances.

Umkomaas

Debt collection letters. They will 'seek their clients instructions ......', so this isn't a Letter Before Action. Nothing for you to do with these, other than file and retain.

If they're going to sue, they will need to send a formal LBA and real court papers. Come back if you get these. Nothing you can do (other than paying them) to prevent them doing so, if the decide to follow that path. We can provide you with help if they do.

The_Deep

This is an entirely unregulated industry which is scamming the public with inflated claims for minor breaches of contracts for alleged parking offences.

Parking Eye, COM, Smart,s and a smaller company have already been named and shamed, as has Gladstones Solicitors, and BW Legal, (these two law firms take hundreds of these cases to court each year). They nearly always lose) and have been reported to the regulatory authority by an M.P.

The problem has become so rampant that MPs have agreed to enact a Bill to regulate these scammers. Watch the video of the Second Reading in the HofC recently.

http://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/2f0384f2-eba5-4fff-ab07-cf24b6a22918?in=12:49:41

and complain in the most robust terms to your MP. With a fair wind most of these companies may well be put out of business by Christmas.

JBlackmore_2

You gentleman are, as always, amazing.
Thank you so much.

beamerguy

JBlackmore wrote: »

You gentleman are, as always, amazing.
Thank you so much.

The old DRP utter rubbish again:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Legal team ? my a*s, it's the teaboy .... DRP really
do live in cloud cuckoo land:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: