Respond? Request for driver details. ParkingEye

Trifled

Hi wonderful helpful people.
Got postal pcn (ntk??).
Appealed online.
Now received letter asking for further information - driver name.

I know the advice is to not give the driver name. I'm posting to ask if I just ignore and allow 28 days to pass.
I didn't see this stage in the newbie info (tho that might bee me due to cognitive problems).

Thanks in advance.

Coupon-mad

Ignore it and wait for a POPLA code.

Do you have a golden ticket then? Dated/received later than 14 days after the event, with no 'POFA' paragraph on the back?

See the golden ticket image in the NEWBIES thread 3rd post about POPLA.

Trifled

Thanks very much coupon mad. Unfortunately no.
Pofa was mentioned on both documents.

Trifled

Disconcerting that it reads:
You have stated that you were not the driver of the vehicle
(I used the template.. it doesn't actually say that, does it).

waamo

The template neither confirms or denies who the driver was or if the appellant was the driver.

They have not sent a personal reply but have merely used a template themselves.

The_Deep

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 five readings are available to watch on the internet, (some 7-8 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.