Formal Demand ignoring appeal

HiddenCucumber101

Hello all

Please forgive me if I have missed finding the info I need. I did do a search but had trouble as there's lots of info and I am completely new to forums.

Where I live my car is parked in a onsite carpark which is monitored by UKCPM, annoyingly it received a "fine" to which I appealed to using the template on the newbies page. Since then a letter has come through but with no reference to the appeal demanding £100 within a timescale stating 'FORMAL DEMAND DO NOT IGNORE THIS NOTICE".

Any suggestions and guidance will be much appreciated and again please accept my apologies if I have posted this in the wrong place or has already been mentioned.

many thanks

Le_Kirk

This is the best place to start. Have a long read and then read it again. If you then have a specific question, post it on this thread and someone will answer it.

HiddenCucumber101

Thanks for your reply, I have had a read all over that and it really is a lot to take in and doesn't seem relevant. I have Aspergers and find taking all the info in rather confusing and too much info to consume no matter how many times I read it.

KeithP

Does your 'formal demand' letter look like this...

https://bmpa.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/article_attachments/203745779/UKCPM_NTK.jpg

Umkomaas

I have Aspergers and find taking all the info in rather confusing and too much info to consume no matter how many times I read it.

Can you get someone to help you with the reading and understanding at home?

While this stuff isn't rocket science, neither is it painting by numbers. While the forum will help keep you on the right track, the pressure on a small number of volunteers each and every day is too much to allow anyone to guide you through each and every step - the NEWBIES FAQ sticky was designed to help newbies to help themselves with much of this.

Turning to your opening post, hardly any parking operator upholds an initial appeal, so not having a reply (which would be a rejection) is not something to lose any sleep over. As UKCPM are IPC operators, their second stage appeal via the IAS would end the same way - rejection.

Who has sent you the 'FORMAL DEMAND ....'?

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

HiddenCucumber101

It does indeed look like that link.

HiddenCucumber101

I can have someone help, however it still isn't really clear cut as there's many links to look at with little time between jobs. So all a lot to read.

many thanks

KeithP

HiddenCucumber101 wrote: »

It does indeed look like that link.

Then you can ignore it.

You may or may not get a response to your appeal, but you can now ignore any debt collector's letters and only need to react if you receive a Letter Before Claim or official court papers.

HiddenCucumber101

thanks KeithP. Thanks all for the advice and apologies for my confusion. I will wait and see what happens (if anything)!

Fruitcake

Come back to this thread if you get a letter before a Letter Before Claim (LBC) or similar (LBC/LBCC/LBCCC/LBA/MCOL are all the same thing.)

Ignore debt collectors, and please don't tell us about them.

Complain to the landowner/your landlord/managing agent about this as well. I doubt there will be anything in your lease or tenancy agreement about having to pay parking scammers.