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New Generation Parking Management Notice

Hi all,
I've had a read through the Newbies guide and seen several other posts by this company but they aren't the same as mine.

I have a permanent visitor pass I have to display at my complex, the day I moved in I didn't have the permit yet, but was blissfully unaware I'd had a PCN sent to my parents address which I hadn't opened until a month later, by now the payment due is of £100. The notice has all my details on it, so they've obviously gone to the DVLA for those.
They had not stuck a notice to my car, so I had no idea... however I have seen cars since with the yellow notices on their cars.

I foolishly appealed the notice on their awful website, and over 3 weeks later still haven't had a acknowledgement they've received anything, or any indication it was even sent successfully.

The kicker, is that I've had ANOTHER ticket which was also opened a month after it was sent, god knows when I forgot to put my permit up, so these absolute criminals are now asking for £200.

What should I do?
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  • Umkomaas
    Umkomaas Posts: 44,401 Forumite
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    Please read the NEWBIES FAQ sticky, post #1 to get a full understanding of what you're dealing with. It gives you the advice you need to be able to deal with these tickets. New Generation are IPC operators, so read the sticky in that context.

    I'm afraid you're in for the long haul to get rid of this - it might take a county court Judge to adjudicate.

    At a local level, get your MP and AM involved. Kick up shiite.
    Please note, we are not a legal advice forum. I personally don't get involved in critiquing court case Defences/Witness Statements, so unable to help on that front. Please don't ask. .

    I provide only my personal opinion, it is not a legal opinion, it is simply a personal one. I am not a lawyer.

    Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; show him how to catch fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.

    #Private Parking Firms - Killing the High Street
  • Coupon-mad
    Coupon-mad Posts: 161,478 Forumite
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    New Generation Parking Management

    https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/74202101#Comment_74202101
    I foolishly appealed the notice on their awful website, and over 3 weeks later still haven't had a acknowledgement they've received anything, or any indication it was even sent successfully.
    So what? No appeal to an IPC firm is accepted, so you know it hasn't worked.

    See the above link and info.

    Same advice as there, nothing to worry about. Come back if they try a claim, if your Managing Agents (NOT letting agent) cannot cancel these. The MA can.

    And you need to update the V5 with the DVLA, you are risking a real fine by having the car registered to an old address.

    :)
    PRIVATE 'PCN'? DON'T PAY BUT DON'T IGNORE IT (except N.Ireland).
    CLICK at the top or bottom of any page where it says:
    Home»Motoring»Parking Tickets Fines & Parking - read the NEWBIES THREAD
  • Same also. Appealed online to NGP about 5 weeks ago but not heard anything. Logging onto website just says ' Appeal Pending'. Guess not much can be done until this changes.
  • Hi all, thank you for the initial responses.

    Tonight I am going to create a formal email and attach all the people associated with the management of Victoria Wharf that I can, in hope to rid these predatory scammers, which had happened before.

    I have now received two of the following letters, and preceding "debt recovery" letters.

    https ://i.imgur.com/VXX7I93.png

    Does anybody have advice what the next step is, and what I can do?
    Thanks all
  • The_Deep
    The_Deep Posts: 16,830 Forumite
    Why do you neede a permit? What does your lease/AST say about perking, (precise wording please). Are you a leaseholder or a tenant?

    Have you read these?

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

    http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?377246-UKPC-liable-for-trespass-**SUCCESS**

    If you were the driver tell them so.

    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 in the house as have Gladstones Solicitors, and BW Legal, (these two law firms take hundreds of these cases to court each week, hospital car parks and residential complex tickets have been especially mentioned. They lose most of them, and have been reported to the regulatory authority by an
    M.P. for unprofessional conduct

    The problem has become so widespread that MPs have agreed to enact a Bill to regulate these scammers. Watch the video of the Second Reading in the House of Commons 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.
    You never know how far you can go until you go too far.
  • beamerguy
    beamerguy Posts: 17,587 Forumite
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    edited 31 October 2018 at 3:32PM
    Hi all, thank you for the initial responses.

    Tonight I am going to create a formal email and attach all the people associated with the management of Victoria Wharf that I can, in hope to rid these predatory scammers, which had happened before.

    I have now received two of the following letters, and preceding "debt recovery" letters.

    https ://i.imgur.com/VXX7I93.png

    Does anybody have advice what the next step is, and what I can do?
    Thanks all

    https://i.imgur.com/VXX7I93.png

    HA .. DCBL acting as silly debt collectors again.

    Unless it's been to court, you lost, you did not pay then maybe


    THE CLUE.
    "We have now recommended to our client"
    This tells you they are powerless

    Debt Collectors ... What they don't want you to know
    https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5859454/debt-collectors-drp-zzps-what-they-dont-want-you-to-know&highlight=debt+collectors+drp

    Probably the TV soap opera "Can't pay we'll take it away" which
    they star in ...... has really gone to their heads
  • Umkomaas
    Umkomaas Posts: 44,401 Forumite
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    https://i.imgur.com/VXX7I93.png
    Does anybody have advice what the next step is, and what I can do?
    Debt collector letter - ignore.

    What's happened since you first posted two months ago in August?

    Rattle the cages you intend via your proposed email.
    Please note, we are not a legal advice forum. I personally don't get involved in critiquing court case Defences/Witness Statements, so unable to help on that front. Please don't ask. .

    I provide only my personal opinion, it is not a legal opinion, it is simply a personal one. I am not a lawyer.

    Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; show him how to catch fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.

    #Private Parking Firms - Killing the High Street
  • The_Deep wrote: »
    Why do you neede a permit? What does your lease/AST say about perking, (precise wording please). Are you a leaseholder or a tenant?...

    The permanent visitor permit is something provided by the parking company, NGPM, and everything managed through them.
    Search for new management parking management signs (I can't post links)
    I am a tenant and unfortunately I don't think my lease mentioned anything about parking, but I will check this later when I get home.
    I have read several posts from parking-prankster and used them in my complaint to the landowner and MP email which I'm in the process of writing.
    Because of all the conflicting info, I appealed ticket 1 with my details, but not 2 or 3.
    I am willing to go to court, I know these forums will provide me with everything I need.
    Thank you for your quick response, I really appreciate it.
  • beamerguy wrote: »

    HA .. DCBL acting as silly debt collectors again.

    Unless it's been to court, you lost, you did not pay then maybe


    THE CLUE.
    "We have now recommended to our client"
    This tells you they are powerless

    Debt Collectors ... What they don't want you to know

    Probably the TV soap opera "Can't pay we'll take it away" which
    they star in ...... has really gone to their heads

    Ironically on their previous "scary" letter they sent had the "Can't pay we'll take it away" logo on it, so I think you're absolutely right :rotfl:

    Thanks for breaking letter down to terms I can understand.
  • Umkomaas wrote: »

    Debt collector letter - ignore.

    What's happened since you first posted two months ago in August?

    Rattle the cages you intend via your proposed email.

    I got more "scary" letters, and another ticket.
    If I'm honest I foolishly put it on the back burner, but today has refueled it, they are criminals plain and simple.
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