Myparkingcharge - what do I do next?

ianwillo

Hi All,

I've read the sticky on the parking board, I just don't know where to go next - if anyone can help?

Received a PCN form myparkingcharge.co.uk. I had bought a ticket for airport parking, but there were no spaces so parked where I could. Appealed - rejected as did not state driver, and I was not in a bay.

Have now had 2 debt collection letters, threats of CCJ's etc. Im not sure what I should do. As mentioned I ahve read the sticky I am just a bit confused.

Also - it says VCS on the letters, not myparkingcharge.

Thanks in advance.

Redx

your PPC is VCS , an IPC member

at the moment you are in limbo, awaiting the next stage (if at all), so post #4 applies

read the parts about what to do if or when an LoC (LBC) and/or an MCOL arrive in the post , within 6 years


we dont want to know about debt collector letters , thank you (boring)

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.

Coupon-mad

'myparkingcharge.co.uk' is covered in the Q&A in the NEWBIES thread 1st post.

An example VCS 'not a parking charge' defence is already in post #2 of the sticky, as and when you need it, if VCS start a small claim.

The 4th post of the sticky, tells you about ignore the debt collector stage.

Nothing else needed as you are at the latter, nothing stage.