Parking Ticketing Ltd - where to from here?

Gettingtherequickly

Hi

One of our vans received a ticket (or invoice!) at a job last July. I ignored it as it was not a penalty notice. Every now & then, we receive a letter, from DRP, Zenith & now from SCS Law. I have no intention of making a payment unless it comes from County Court.

However, I have been looking at Parking Ticketing website and they say they are a member of BPA, which I checked against the BPA website and sure enough, they are listed. But, looking at the functions they can carry out, does a big fat No under ANPR mean they cannot access our details from DVLA? Or am I just looking at this simplistically?

My gut instinct is to continue to ignore correspondence, unless & until I have to.

The_Deep

ANPR is just one way to control parking. Ohers are a man in a hut, pay on exit machines, and season tickets. All have access to the DVLA.
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 most of these companies may well be put out of business by Christmas.

nosferatu1001

If it wctually was ANPR - easy to find out, just look at the pictures - then submit a complaint to the BPA. Also check their DP registration as thats unlikely to be correct.

Umkomaas

The columns alongside the operator on the BPA matrix have little practical relevance - they are not a confirmation of any form of 'licensing' to do this, that or the other. They seem to be simply indicative. They don't provide you with a 'get out of jail card'.

What might be more interesting to you are the following.

https://bmpa.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/203631441-Parking-Ticketing-Ltd

http://www.bmpa.eu/companydata/Parking_Ticketing.html

Very unlikely that this will go further than SCS letters.

To which organisation does the SCS letter ask you to pay?

Gettingtherequickly

Umkomaas wrote: »

To which organisation does the SCS letter ask you to pay?

Debt Recovery Plus

Umkomaas

Gettingtherequickly wrote: »

Debt Recovery Plus

Debt collector letter using a solicitors letterhead- ignore it. Typical stunt by DRP - they also use Gladstone letterheads. NEWBIES FAQ sticky, post #4 deals with DCAs.

Coupon-mad

One of our vans received a ticket (or invoice!) at a job last July. I ignored it as it was not a penalty notice. Every now & then, we receive a letter, from DRP, Zenith & now from SCS Law. I have no intention of making a payment unless it comes from County Court.

Unless you are in Scotland or NI, your company should not ignore most private PCNs.

Take a leaf out of Edna Basher's or StaffsSW's book. They both post about their companies beating PPCs all the time, and with a BPA member you could kick most into touch at POPLA and could be sending out invoices to the PPC for handling the scam letters.