Smart Parking Ignoring Whitelist?!

Pblinder

It's okay! I did something wrong haha, I don't mind leaving them otherwise it might make the other people look mean spirited or chatting to themselves :rotfl: and I 100% don't want that when I've come across mean.
I guess they do use scare tactics which work because I've been a blubbering mess since February! :rotfl: I'll try to do what you said about the witness statement, maybe even that will be a kick to get my student accommodation to do something rather than just make phone calls. Sigh.

Redx

LOC123 is a solicitor so you would be well advised to accept her free legal advice, plus all the info people have told you including paragraphing and turning off smart punctuation too


the regulars here have tried to help you in various ways depending on their knowledge and abilities , they have seen these topics previously and you are getting the best advice for free that you can possibly obtain in the UK and even free legal advice too


yes we do "get it"


but SMART and the debt collectors can harass you for 6 years , I repeat , 6 years , there is no easy answer, no magic wand to make it all "go away"


so you need to get with the program, accept the advice and replies given and grow a thicker skin and help US to help YOU to beat these sc@mmers , over a period of time, planning for the future in case they try a court claim or claims


think JUDGE RINDER and you get some idea of how it works, but without all the theatrics


nobody on here wants not so SMART to win, but those landlords or owners will need to step up too and stop hiding behind the fence

Pblinder

I'm honestly trying, I'm just relaying information and trying to help. I don't even drive the car, own the car or even have the notices addressed to me just pressure from boyfriends parents and people getting angry with me when my accommodation reply haha!

I guess they are sticking their heads in the sand, I'm trying to tell them they should do more, hopefully they listen and I can atleast help with them onside.

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 they will be out of business by Christmas.

Coupon-mad

What happened to the 2 you were appealing using the forum template? they should be cancelled by now, if not, soon, as long as you appealed as registered keeper and within 28 days. Or you will get 2 POPLA codes.

The other one, do as LOC123 suggests and do the SAR I suggested asking the things I suggested to include, specifically, about all they hold about your VRN and the dates it was put on the whitelist.

Loadsofchildren123

Something for your bf to consider - the limitation period for debt claims is 6 years, so this PPC could theoretically wait 6 years then issue proceedings the day before the period ends.


I think you said your bf is a student (you've certainly said you are). So my guess is he'll spend the next 6 years moving. A lot.


If he doesn't update the PPC with his change of addresses when he moves, the PPC will carry on writing to him at the address on his V5 now. Eventually they will issue proceedings and serve them at that address.


We often get people on here who discover unknown CCJs against their name in respect of PPCs issuing proceedings that they didn't know about. People usually get the CCJs set aside on the basis they'd moved, updated their V5 properly and the PPC should and could have taken steps to ascertain an up to date address. But this whole exercise is as time consuming as defending a private charge, and sometimes the PPC then issues proceedings all over again so you then have to go through the whole defending process as well.


So bf may decide to avoid this it's better to keep sending email/letter to the PPC every time he moves to avoid discovering he has a CCJ against his name when he goes to apply for a mortgage in the future...