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NSGL parking charge notice

Hello all
i hope you are well?

i have looked at the looked at the FAQs,

i have received a PCN yesterday, when we visited Gloucester

we first went to a retail outlet bought some items then booked a restaurant for sometime later, i now have a charge for £60 if i pay within 14 days which i wont pay!

as we was a patron for both retail/restaurant i did not leave the car and go elsewhere,
now if i admit that i purchased goods/services will this weaken my case as i did stay for more than 2-3 hours i guess is the 'limit' for parking?
what are you supposed to do go to one or 2 shops then leave?

i was going to reply to NSGL saying i was a customer at both sites
any advice please
thank you

Comments

  • pogofish
    pogofish Posts: 10,853 Forumite
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    Your "case" won't cut any ice with NGSL - they just want to blag money off you. Why are you even thinking on writing to them just yet?

    If you were a customer, a strongly worded approach to the retailers and their head office if needed would be my first action - Do nothing about contacting NGSL until you get a POFA-compliant NTK from them. Don't give them your personal info for free and let them-off of the need to issue an NTK within the appropriate timescale.

    Also, don't get suckered-in by any "discount period".

    Use that time to get very familiar on the info in the Newbies Sticky so you can make the most effective challenge.
  • The_Deep
    The_Deep Posts: 16,830 Forumite
    Write to each and every retail outlet on the site, even the smallest complaining about the PPC and asking them to make representations to the parking company/managing agents. Write bad stuff on the website, and contact local papers and radio/TV stations.


    Heap as much odour on these scammers as possible.
    You never know how far you can go until you go too far.
  • pana37
    pana37 Posts: 264 Forumite
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    edited 25 April 2017 at 6:48PM
    Hello thanks for your reply
    Apologies that's what I meant
    I received a letter in the post yesterday I believe this is the notice to keeper? Ntk

    Should I be doing something different now?


    Thanks In advance
  • pana37
    pana37 Posts: 264 Forumite
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    pogofish wrote: »
    Your "case" won't cut any ice with NGSL - they just want to blag money off you. Why are you even thinking on writing to them just yet?

    If you were a customer, a strongly worded approach to the retailers and their head office if needed would be my first action - Do nothing about contacting NGSL until you get a POFA-compliant NTK from them. Don't give them your personal info for free and let them-off of the need to issue an NTK within the appropriate timescale.

    Also, don't get suckered-in by any "discount period".

    Use that time to get very familiar on the info in the Newbies Sticky so you can make the most effective challenge.


    Hi that's what I meant I received the PCN in the post,
    Do I still complain to the retailer/s?
    or appeal as the keeper of the vehicle stating that I wont be supplying the name of the driver?
    now I had another look at the newbies section again,
    I have checked and they company that issued the charge is a member of BPA. as I received this in the post Notice to Keeper
    I believe the template would be different to the one on the newbie section?


    look forward to your response
    many thanks
  • Umkomaas
    Umkomaas Posts: 43,640 Forumite
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    1. Use the BPA operator initial appeal (the one in blue text) from the NEWBIES FAQ sticky- send it to NSGL via the method required on their NtK and by their deadline. Do not try altering or adding to the template.

    2. Complain strongly to the retailers and restaurant.
    Please note, we are not a legal advice forum. I personally don't get involved in critiquing court case Defences/Witness Statements, so unable to help on that front. Please don't ask. .

    I provide only my personal opinion, it is not a legal opinion, it is simply a personal one. I am not a lawyer.

    Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; show him how to catch fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.

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  • Blibble
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    Try and get a landowner cancellation in it first, and complain to any outlets you have visited that you were a patron and the shops in question will lose your custom if they do not over-turn the PCN.

    Send the BPA template in the Newbies thread, if this does not succeed you'll get an independent POPLA code. Come back here for advice if you later need helping wording / formulating POPLA appeal.
  • pana37
    pana37 Posts: 264 Forumite
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    Blibble wrote: »
    Try and get a landowner cancellation in it first, and complain to any outlets you have visited that you were a patron and the shops in question will lose your custom if they do not over-turn the PCN.

    Send the BPA template in the Newbies thread, if this does not succeed you'll get an independent POPLA code. Come back here for advice if you later need helping wording / formulating POPLA appeal.

    Just called one of the retailers and they have said nothing to do with them, they said send a copy of the receipt to the company who issued the charge.. i dont really believe what he just said.:mad:
  • Half_way
    Half_way Posts: 7,516 Forumite
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    you need to find the owner/management of the retail park not the tennant based in a unit of a multi outlet retail park
    From the Plain Language Commission:

    "The BPA has surely become one of the most socially dangerous organisations in the UK"
  • pana37
    pana37 Posts: 264 Forumite
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    Half_way wrote: »
    you need to find the owner/management of the retail park not the tennant based in a unit of a multi outlet retail park

    i did ask him who is the owner he said he didnt know, emailing the ceo right now
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