Horizon NTD cancelled.

bergkamp · 16 January 2019 at 12:24PM

Reason for NTD - No ticket.

NTD appealled online, as RK, with the template from newbies thread on day 25.

Response from Horizon via email on day 53;

Appeals Department

Good Afternoon,

Thank you for your recent correspondence regarding the above Parking Charge Notice.

We can confirm that when the Parking Charge Notice is cancelled, any keeper/driver details are removed from our computer system and that we comply with the requirements of the British Parking Association Code of Practice and the Data Protection Act 2018 in relation to the collection and handling of data. You can review our privacy policy at https://horizonparking.co.uk/privacy-policy/

Kind Regards,

Now that email doesn't actually state the Parking Charge Notice has been cancelled, but entering details on ' Pay PCN ' page does state that it has been cancelled...

The_Deep · 16 January 2019 at 12:35PM

Well done. Does it merit a complaint to your MP?

It is the will of Parliament that these scammers, (very often former clampers), be put 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.