UKCPS Parking Charge

mopoopy

Hi Guys,

Please bear with me and do not force me to go back to NEWBIES thread.

I have read it several times and i understand what is required, however i have passed the 21 day appeal period so i am in a bit of a pickle.

What happened:

Location: Leeds
Date of incident: 25/10/18

I parked my car on the side of a private entrance to an MOT garage of some sort. I only parked there because i noticed they either were out of business or had moved to another site. I know this because i walk past it everyday on my way to work. Their site is secured with metal gates, but the entrance to the site up to the gates is flat land made up of gravel and patchy greenery.

I presumed it was ok to park there as mentioned they were closed for some time now and also i noticed the same car being parked there every morning for a couple of weeks. I parked there for one day and did not receive any parking ticket/charge when i came back to my car later that day.

However, i received a NTK saying pay the usual £60 or £100 from UKCPS through the post but i ignored it. I received another letter well after a month from the initial notice reminding me to pay the charge of £100 and i cant appeal.

Today i received another reminder asking for the sum of £130, also mentioning i cannot appeal as its been well over the 21 days.

Options:
The thing is i really cannot be bothered wasting my time and energy towards them, its tension i don't need right now. I thought about sending them an email saying i didn't receive any NTK or any letter other than the final reminder or that i sent them two appeals through the post but they haven't received them, hence why i emailed.

or

Just send them that template found on NEWBIES thread via email?

Please advise, i know you guys say ignore them but when it actually happens to you, you feel like taking the easy way out and paying them. Its stuff i dont need to deal with right now. Please help guys.

Thanks in advance!!

Umkomaas

Sending them an email to say you didn't receive previous correspondence when you did is not a strategy we would advise. The PPC would deem it to be irrelevant in any case: it would not help you

You could send the initial appeal template from the NEWBIES FAQ sticky, post #1, it shows you have entered a process of trying to resolve this (should it ever get to a court case), but it won't bring you any cancellation.

This leaves you the only option we otherwise recommend with an IPC AOS Operator at this stage of your case - ignore everything other than a LBC or MCOL Claim. Come back on this thread if you get either.

UKCPS used to be quite litigious in years past, but have really cooled their ardour in this direction of late. They do, however, have 6 years in which to commence court proceedings against you.

EDIT - Just a later thought - if you can actually find out who the owner is of the land on which your vehicle was parked, you could contact them to ask whether UKCPS are still authorised to issue parking tickets. Try Google, the Local Authority, Local Valuation Office, or pay the Land Registry (£3 or thereabouts) to give you the information.

If they no longer had authority at the time of the parking event, then you could be on to something.