PCN from UKPC at West Middlesex Hospital

FedUpDriver

Hi All

This is my first post in this forum - and any help and advice would be much appreciated

I received a PCN yesterday while attending the WMH.

After over 30mins of driving around the car-park, i did park outside marked bays - it was either that or be late for a vital appointment.

The staff - who do an excellent job btw - were running late and i did not leave the hospital for a good couple of hours

On my return i had a PCN attached to my windscreen - for ‘Not parked correctly within the markings of a bay or space’

Should i pay-up or wait for the NTK?


FedUpDriver

Umkomaas

Which parking company?

Have you asked PALS (Google it) to intervene?

Driver15

Hi Fedupdriver,

I am in a similar situation. Can you please advise what steps you took? Did you pay/ appeal/ didn't respond.

Thanks

The_Deep

UKPC are fraudsters, why are the NHS cosying up in bed with them? Perhaps you should bring this to the attention of the CEO of the Trust.

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

The whole industry is a scam, relying on threats of court, and the public's ignorance of the Law, A bill is currently before parliament which will regulate the scammers, many of whom are ex-clampers.

This is an entirely unregulated industry which is scamming the public with inflated claims for minor breaches of alleged contracts for alleged parking offences, aided and abetted by a handful of low-rent solicitors. Is has been suggested by an MP that some of these companies may have connections to organised crime.

Parking Eye, CPM, Smart, (especially Smart}, and others have already been named and shamed in the House of Commons 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.

Sir Greg Knight's Private Members Bill to curb the excesses, and perhaps close down, some of these companies passed its Second Reading in the Lords this month, and, with a fair wind, will l become Law later this year..

All five readings are available to watch on the internet, (some 7-8 hours), and published in Hansard. MPs have an extremely low opinion of the industry. Many are complaining that they are becoming overwhelmed by complaints from members of the public. Add to their burden, complain in the most robust terms about the scammers.

Coupon-mad

Driver15 wrote: »

Hi Fedupdriver,

I am in a similar situation. Can you please advise what steps you took? Did you pay/ appeal/ didn't respond.

Thanks

Hopefully he/she complained to PALS and got it cancelled.

This is all covered in NEWBIES PLEASE READ THESE FAQS FIRST, at the top of this forum (see my signature for where to click at the top of any page).

Driver15

Hi all,

Thank you for all your help and suggestions. I did contact pals but they say it's nothing to do with them. Hence now the keeper will go through appeal process in due time.

KeithP

Driver15 wrote: »

Hi all,

Thank you for all your help and suggestions. I did contact pals but they say it's nothing to do with them.

PALS, representing the hospital authority, simply cannot say that.

Point them towards The NHS patient, visitor and staff car parking principles.

In particular, this bit:

Contracted-out car parking

NHS organisations are responsible for the actions of private contractors who run car parks on their behalf.

The rest is worth reading too.

The_Deep

I did contact pals but they say it's nothing to do with them.

They lie, read this

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nhs-patient-visitor-and-staff-car-parking-principles/nhs-patient-visitor-and-staff-car-parking-principles

and retaliate robustly.

Coupon-mad

Try again with PALS, as advised above. Complain about them fobbing you off.

The NHS Car Parking Principles are Government policy that PALS should know about. The NHS Trust certainly do.

Driver15

Hi all,

Thank you for all your suggestion. I emailed them again with the link provided. They have responded that I should appeal UKPC mentioning that I have already had conversation with the hospital and if UKPC didn't cancel the charge, they will make arrangements to cancel it. I'll keep you all updated with the result.

Thank you

Aleksy1244

Hello any news on this case? Someone close to me has the same situation last week and got mislead by another vehicle that parked the same way and on return recieved a pcn stating " parked in roadway" he can prove that there was an important appoitment and huge traffic.

Btw hello All its aleks1244 from -showthread.php?t=5521723&highlight=aleks1244[/url]

Lost that account.. and btw still no answer from gladstone since that post