Premier Parking Solutions - ANPR ticket

JS85

Hello everyone,

I’ve recently received a ticket from PPS and would be grateful for your views as to whether I have grounds to challenge.

The simple facts are that I parked in a PPS controlled car park with my disabled mother (BB holder) and checked the parking signs to see if charges were applicable. I stupidly misread the sign because I thought it said BB holders were exempt but in fact it said not exempt. I found this out after PPS rejected my initial appeal and sent me pictures of the signage. So I never purchased a ticket. Mistake number 1.

Mistake number 2 was not reading the threads on this site beforehand because in my appeal I let it slip that I was the driver.

Now I’ve read the newbie thread and a number of previous PPS threads, the vast majority of which advise not to pay up and to defend. However, I do feel that my case appears weak because I saw the signage, read it wrong, did not pay for any ticket and admitted being the driver but I would be very grateful if you could perhaps let me know of any other grounds that I am perhaps missing.

I’m at the stage where I can pay £60 within the next couple of days otherwise the fine increases to £100.

I have written to who I thought was the landowner but that wasn’t the case and I have no idea who is.

Many thanks in advance for your help.

The_Deep

Signs, contract, timeliness, markings, grace periods, planning and advertising permissions, Code of Practice, membership of an ATA, etc., read some other threads, It has all been done before, thousands of times.

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.

Fruitcake

PPS are IPC members, so you have reached the end of the viable appeal route. You are now in ignore mode unless you get real court papers.
Come back here if that happens. We have a very good success rate against parking scammers.

If you misread the signs, then they were obviously inadequate and not fit for the purpose of forming a contract. You should revisit (on foot) and get your own pics of the entrance and signage.
Look especially for signs that are obscured, high up on poles, hidden, damaged, facing away from the direction of traffic flow etcetera.

Please also complain to your MP about this unregulated scam.

Coupon-mad

Ignore them and complain to the landowner, if that's an option.

PPS do not sue over every PCN, far from it. So sit tight & come back if you do need to defend a claim, which BW Legal will probably muck up.

This is not a fine. Don't pay a scammer 'for an easy life' or you are joining them.