Parking Charge Notice - Redbridge Sports & Leisure

zafiradad1980

Hello all,

I received a parking charge notice today (It is a Parking Charge Notice not a Penalty charge notice).

The full duration of the stay was paid for via the Whoosh app.

The letter is from PCL and the car park is that of the local sports centre I believe.

Thanks,

Zdad.

Fruitcake

It will be ANPR not CCTV mages. A wholly unfit for purpose system, banned by the UK Government for car park management on council or local government car parks, but used by scammers to scam.

Please read the sticky thread for NEWBIES then appeal using the template you will find there.

Most if not all of your questions will be answered in that thread, but comeback here if you need further help.

Pease also complain to your MP and Sir Greg Knight MP about this unregulated scam.

These are some of the comments made by the MPs in Parliament concerning the unregulated parking industry (Feb 2018):

https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2018-02-02/debates/CC84AF5E-AC6E-4E14-81B1-066E6A892807/Parking(CodeOfPractice)Bill

''Rip-offs from car park Cowboys must stop''; unfair treatment; signage deliberately confusing to ensure a PCN is issued; ''years of abuse by rogue parking companies''; bloodsuckers; ''the current system of regulation is hopeless, like putting Dracula in charge of the blood-bank''; extortionate fines; rogue operators; ''sense of injustice''; unfair charges and notices; wilfully misleading; signage is a deliberate act to deceive or mislead; ''confusing signs are often deliberate, to trap innocent drivers''; unreasonable; a curse; harassing; operating in a disgusting way; appeals service is no guarantee of a fair hearing; loathed; outrageous scam; dodgy practice; outrageous abuse; unscrupulous practices; ''the British Parking Association is as much use as a multi-storey car park in the Gobi desert''; and finally, by way of unanimous conclusion: ''we need to crack down on these rogue companies. They are an absolute disgrace to this country. Ordinary motorists and ordinary residents should not have to put up with this''.

These are the exact words used, so you should quote them to your MP in a complaint and ask him/her to contact Sir Greg Knight MP if they want further information about this scam.

Fruitcake

You should also edit your post to say The Driver paid for parking. Only ever refer to The Driver and The Keeper, who are two different people.

Coupon-mad

Which parking firm?

Never mind the discount. The MSE discount is 100%.

Please now URGENTLY remove your middle line of your first post, as it tells the world who was driving!!

zafiradad1980

Thanks, I have updated my original post.

I uploaded a pdf of the receipt for parking to the PCL website where it said email us.

Am I being paranoid in thinking that the email/message might be ignored?

Coupon-mad

PCL, who are they? Full company name/number?

In your appeal, you didn't say who was driving did you? Didn't tick 'driver'?

Fruitcake

Please tell us the NAME of the parking company.

Other than that, read the NEWBIES then send the appeal template you will find there at the prescribed time.

If you have already appealed, please tell us what you said. Hopefully you didn't give away the driver's identity.

zafiradad1980

Parking Charge Limited
PO Box 1484, Northampton, NN2 1ET

No I didn't tick any box to say who the driver was. I attached a pdf of the receipt from Whoosh

Coupon-mad

BPA members then:

http://www.britishparking.co.uk/BPA-Approved-Operators

So you know how to win at POPLA, as registered keeper? Was the Notice received within 14 days of the event, and does it have the words it needs from para 9 of Schedule 4 (linked in the NEWBIES thread)?

Hope you didn't type 'I paid' or see MY receipt' ?!!!

zafiradad1980

The letter was received today, 15 days after the event.


I certainly didn't tell them who was driving or who paid.

Coupon-mad

So now compare the wording to para 9 of the POFA linked in the NEWBIES thread!