Unfair parking Charge notice

Madalina93

Hi all I am writing cause I am having an issue with a private car park company that is sending me letters about unpaid parking charge fines from a few months ago which I wasn’t even aware of. I didn’t know about their existence as I never found any ticket on the car or any letter from them about an issued parking charge.
And also on the letters there are lots of pictures of the cars and also pictures of me walking. Is it fair that he took pictures of me? Can I appeal on that? How coulddeal with it? Is not fair for me to have to pay a full parking charge notice when I didn’t receive any advertisements about the ticket.

The_Deep

Of course it is unfair, it is a scam, but it is not illegal,

Read about the gane you have been co-opted into joining.


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.

But first of all read the sickies/FAQs

nosferatu1001

Go back to the first page of this sub forum
Find the newbeis stickie
Read it then edit your post above.

Coupon-mad

Madalina93 wrote: »

Hi all I am writing cause I am having an issue with a private car park company that is sending me letters about unpaid parking charge fines from a few months ago which I wasn’t even aware of. I didn’t know about their existence as I never found any ticket on the car or any letter from them about an issued parking charge.

And also on the letters there are lots of pictures of the cars and also pictures of me walking. Is it fair that he took pictures of me? Can I appeal on that? How coulddeal with it? Is not fair for me to have to pay a full parking charge notice when I didn’t receive any advertisements about the ticket.

Same as all the other 'left the site' threads. Search the forum for those words!

You appear to have missed the NEWBIES thread; see my signature for where to click.