IPC PoFa 2nd stage thread lost - help

foxycat

I was following this thread
Newbies! Need help with a private parking ticket? Read this before posting!!

after receiving a windscreen pcn. I googled the firm Vehicle Control Services Ltd
Central Payment Oce, P.O. Box 4777, Sheeld. S9 9DJ
t: 0114 242 1111 f: 0114 244 5299
Registered in England 2498820 VAT No. 755 7800 06
O P E R A T O R who are IPC registered. I sent the letter as advised in the thread and had one back stating
We refer to your correspondence received in connection with the above Parking Charge Notice (PCN).
Please note that responsibility for this PCN lies with the driver of the vehicle at the time the parking
contravention was observed. It can be ascertained from what you state within your appeal that you
were not the driver on the day in question. We note that you have declined to name the driver of your
vehicle at the time of the incident in question. It is important that we make you aware that we will rely on
the keeper liability provisions schedule 4 of the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 (PoFa) and s such,
you remain liable for the outstanding Parking Charge Notice.
In order for us to process your appeal correctly, please follow the instructions below.
The following options are available:
1. Notify the driver of the vehicle that they will need to appeal to us directly, including their FULL NAME
(Forename and Surname) and a valid FULL SERVICEABLE ADDRESS within 14 days.
2. If you are representing the driver we require a signed and dated statement from the driver of the
vehicle confirming that you are authorised to appeal on his/her behalf. This statement MUST contain
the drivers FULL NAME (Forename and Surname) and a valid FULL SERVICEABLE ADDRESS. This
needs to be an original signature and not a photocopy or a stamp.

and I cant find in the thread what to do next (either my eyes or brain isnt working properly. Any advice would be very much appreciated. Thank you

Fruitcake

They are scammers.

They are lying. You must not name the driver and there is nothing in law that requires you to do so. Not even a judge can make you reveal the driver's identity.

Your next stage is already explained in the NEWBIES thread. It is ignore anything and everything you get from now on for the next six years except real court papers. Don't bother with an IAS appeal. It is a kangaroo court and you will have an 80% chance of losing.

The part about ignoring everything includes ignoring debt collectors. The NEWBIES explains why it is safe to do so.

The only thing you don't ignore is a LBC/LBCC/LBCCC/MCOL

Check your post, check your inbox and junk folder for the next six years. If you move, tell the scammers the new address of the keeper.

beamerguy

Fruitcake took the words right out of my mouth

Who the driver is/was is your business and nobody else

Tell the name of the driver and you will go to court

VCS may well try it and it's up to you to prove they are wrong with signage etc

You can read all about VCS here, lots of tips

http://parking-prankster.blogspot.co.uk/search?q=vcs

Coupon-mad

Send a complaint email to David Dunford at the DVLA to say that VCS are saying that a keeper has to name the driver in order for an appeal to be considered:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/72501420#Comment_72501420

The more complaints about this, the better.

DO NOT say who parked the car, email the complaint as the KEEPER & show Mr D the offending VCS email.

foxycat

Send a complaint email to David Dunford at the DVLA to say that VCS are saying that a keeper has to name the driver in order for an appeal to be considered:


The more complaints about this, the better.

DO NOT say who parked the car, email the complaint as the KEEPER & show Mr D the offending VCS email.

thank you. Have done

Umkomaas

Was this 'contravention' at an airport?

foxycat

Umkomaas;72547695]Was this 'contravention' at an airport?
no, it was a tramoline park, road signage said to turn left from main road intoo carpark, inside carpark it said turn left one way system. It also said under 2 hours free. Turned out the left area was a completely different carpark hence the ticket

foxycat

I did and thank you

Umkomaas

foxycat wrote: »

I did and thank you

Can you elaborate please - it's almost 12 months since you last posted and your 5 words above don't seem to have any context to relate to?

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, aided and abetted by a handful of low-rent solicitors.

Parking Eye, CPM, Smart, and another 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 lose most of them, and have been reported to the regulatory authority by an M.P. for unprofessional conduct

Hospital car parks and residential complex tickets have been especially mentioned.

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 they will be out of business by Christmas.