Ukpc over stayed pay and display by 20 mins. Ples help

Iron_1958

Hi this was happen to me recently. In a b.legion car park by ukpc. I was 20 mins overstayed. I went in to get some change (coins) to extend because coins i had wasnt accepting by machine. Hench when i came back, greeted :(With a ticket was on my wind screen. £100 but £60 payable in 14 Days. This is obsurd i think. I was only 20 mins late and ther charge £1 an hour.
Please help.

nosferatu1001

Have you read the NEWBIES thread, helpfully stuck near the top of this forum?
If not, go back and read it
Properly. No skim read.

beamerguy

Iron_1958 wrote: »

Hi this was happen to me recently. In a b.legion car park by ukpc. I was 20 mins overstayed. I went in to get some change (coins) to extend because coins i had wasnt accepting by machine. Hench when i came back, greeted :(With a ticket was on my wind screen. £100 but £60 payable in 14 Days. This is obsurd i think. I was only 20 mins late and ther charge £1 an hour.
Please help.

UKPC are members of the BPA and there is a grace period they must follow.

This is what the BPA say

“No time limit is specified. This is because it might take one person five minutes, but another person 10 minutes depending on various factors, not limited to disability.”

The BPA’s guidance defines the ‘grace period’ as the time allowed after permitted or paid-for parking has expired but before any kind of enforcement takes place.

A machine that cannot accept money will come under "various factors"

https://www.britishparking.co.uk/News/good-car-parking-practice-includes-grace-periods

Appeal to UKPC stating this. If they ignore you, complain to Steve Clark of the BPA ..... steve.c@britishparking.co.uk

The_Deep

UKPC are fraudsters, they could have doctored the time stamps.

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 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.