Ncp - popla - trace

petew76

Help please,
Got a parking ticket from NCP. 1-2 Hr ticket bought on machine.
Remember plugging my reg number into machine etc. Paid by cash.
Threw ticket away when got home.
Appealed with NCP, knew I had bought a ticket but had no proof, asked them to check CCTV and machine.
Appeal lost, they said no records on machine.
Appealed to POPLA.
POPLA decision is still pending, been pending now since November 2nd 2018 (Now Jan 15th).
Within this time I have now received 2 letters from TRACE Debt Recovery, one dated Dec 4th and one dated Jan 4th.
I have ignored both.
Should I be ignoring and waiting for POPLA ?
Will POPLA ever come to a decision ?
Should I just put my feet up and act like this never happened ?

Help and advice greatly appreciated.

beamerguy

petew76 wrote: »

Help please,
Got a parking ticket from NCP. 1-2 Hr ticket bought on machine.
Remember plugging my reg number into machine etc. Paid by cash.
Threw ticket away when got home.
Appealed with NCP, knew I had bought a ticket but had no proof, asked them to check CCTV and machine.
Appeal lost, they said no records on machine.
Appealed to POPLA.
POPLA decision is still pending, been pending now since November 2nd 2018 (Now Jan 15th).
Within this time I have now received 2 letters from TRACE Debt Recovery, one dated Dec 4th and one dated Jan 4th.
I have ignored both.
Should I be ignoring and waiting for POPLA ?
Will POPLA ever come to a decision ?
Should I just put my feet up and act like this never happened ?

Help and advice greatly appreciated.

Trace are just bog standard debt collectors with no clout in the parking scam. IGNORE 100% TRACE

But, if your appeal is still with POPLA, NCP has no right to be instructing debt crawlers to harass you.

Complain to the BPA about the action of NCP, it will not be the first time NCP have done this

Steve Clark steve.c@britishparking.co.uk

The_Deep

Popla are notoriously inefficient and not impartial.

If you lose PoPLA , let the PPC take you to court, where they are quite likely to get a bloody nose, (and you get some costs, not a lot, but better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick).

In the meantime, complain to your MP as it is the will of Parliament that these scammers, (very often former clampers), be put driven out of business.

Hopefully that will take place in the near future. The Bill has passed through the HOC without hitch, and goes to the Lords soon. In the meantime involve your MP, the poor dears are buckling under the weight of complaints about these scammers.

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 Third Reading in late November, and, with a fair wind, will become Law next year.

All three readings are available to watch on the internet, (some 6-7 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.