Misspelt Registration Number - Zero used not O - Smart PCN

Half_way

asbowen wrote: »

There are only two retailers left there now, one is a bowling alley and the other is a Range outlet store - Matalan has moved on

Ok, so tis a retial park, but whos retail park is it?
British Land? Savils? someone else?

The_Deep

UKPC are fraudsters, read this

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/11858473/Parking-firm-UKPC-admits-faking-tickets-to-fine-drivers.html

http://parking-prankster.blogspot.co.uk/2016/11/residential-parking.html

https://www.parkingcowboys.co.uk/residential-parking/

https://bmpa.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/213801109-Parking-Control-Management-Roboclaim-Residential-site

https://bmpa.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/sections/115000492465-Residential-parking-problems




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.

Cubeguy3

Half_way wrote: »

Ok, so tis a retial park, but whos retail park is it?
British Land? Savils? someone else?

I understand the owner is Aviva Investors

Umkomaas

The_Deep wrote: »

UKPC are fraudsters

They might well be, TD, but this thread is about Smart Parking.

Nurse .......!

System

You really, really, REALLY need to know what you are about if you are not going to use the information here that has been fine tuned by many people who have put in literally hundreds of hours to make it work.

Can't argue with that reasoning - thanks!

+1 . But if the template doesn't work then you have a fall back of "de minimis"

Coupon-mad

Yes but it's Smart, and we all know that if a keeper appeals, Smart lose. Job done! So IMHO use the template and they will fold by May, I expect.

Part of the good thing about the appeal template is the fact PPCs recognise it, even after it's been edited (I changed it only last week!). So you are sending them a subliminal message you don't even realise, by using it! The message says something like:

'Get stuffed, you will lost at POPLA, I am on MSE and won't be telling you who was driving'!

EDIT: Here's how it worked here today:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5813008

Cubeguy3

Thanks for the advice everyone:

Thank you for your recent communication.
I have noted the points you raised and would like to confirm that we are cancelling the Parking Charge Notice.
If I can be of any further assistance please do not hesitate to contact me.
Yours sincerely,
Smart Parking Ltd

Fruitcake

Well done.

Now 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 he wants further information about this scam.

It is imperative that MPs hear as many complaints as possible about these scammers.

Coupon-mad

Cubeguy3 wrote: »

Thanks for the advice everyone:

Thank you for your recent communication.
I have noted the points you raised and would like to confirm that we are cancelling the Parking Charge Notice.
If I can be of any further assistance please do not hesitate to contact me.
Yours sincerely,
Smart Parking Ltd

Easy when you know how, isn't it?! :T