Not being able to fit in a bay.

GM1880

We have a pretty standard car and parked in our guest bay at home regulated by BPA. The bay’s very narrow and one wheel was just over the line, but right against the wall on the other side, so couldn’t get closer in.

They’ve given us a ticket anyhow. We weren’t limiting movement of any other cars even if the car park was full. Seems crazy to get a £100 for that.

Plan to fight it all the way, but intrigued if there are similar cases. Should we just give up?

The_Deep

This seems like a penalty to me and they would probably struggle in court if the width of the bay is under 2.4 metres.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38048793

This is an entirely unregulated industry which is scamming the public with inflated claims for alleged 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 nearly always lose, and have been reported to the regulatory authority by an M.P.

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 most of these companies may well be put out of business by Christmas.

Half_way

the BPA ltd, is not a regulatory authority in no way.
do you display a permit to use your own space as well?

Umkomaas

Which parking company please?

Please read the NEWBIES FAQ sticky, post #1 which explains how you should deal with this.

Fruitcake

Have you read the Sticky thread for NEWBIES, and are you following the advice to appeal using the template you will find there?

What does your lease/AST say about parking? This will have primacy of contract.

Does it say anything about having to pay a third party if a car is parked slightly outside a bay?


As already said, the BPA can't and don't regulate anything. They have admitted this on many occasions.

This is what one MP said about the BPA.

''the British Parking Association is as much use as a multi-storey car park in the Gobi desert''

Please do complain to your MP about this unregulated scam.

Coupon-mad

Should we just give up?

Never. Which PPC?

Have you missed the NEWBIES thread? Shows you how to fight it, no 'giving up' option.

GM1880

Sorry, missed the Newbies thread, going through it now.

It was UK Parking Control.

We had displayed a permit and the photos they've taken online are pretty pointless, they don't show a great deal, certainly they don't show the line and where the wheels of the car were, just the overhang of the bumper.

Coupon-mad

OK, so time your online appeal template for day 26, reason as explained in the NEWBIES thread.

GM1880

Thanks, I'll let this thread die a natural death unless anything odd happens. Sorry for clogging up the board. (sort of done it again now with this reply)!

Coupon-mad

Nothing unusual will happen; like you will see on all other UKPC threads, you will get:

- a letter or email begging to be told who was driving (ignore)

- possibly a NTK, maybe not in time, maybe not at all...(ignore)

- a rejection letter and POPLA code will follow anyway, and you just need to then come back here and show us your draft POPLA appeal and tell us if you ever got a NTK or if you have the certain win a keeper has, when a PPC forgets the NTK by day 56!

We do want to help you again at POPLA stage so you don't miss a trick. Come back to this thread.

Ralph-y

and complain to your MP as per the 'The Deep' post higher up

Ralph:cool: