Pangbourne Working Mens Club- Parking Eye drop claim

Fruitcake

Have you tried to lobby the club and persuade them to persuade the council to take legal action against the scammers?

As for getting your money back for the time and cost you spent fighting this scam, I think the best idea as already suggested is to start your own small claim against them. Depending on how the club react, you may wish to make them co-respondents and include them in the claim as they are the principle who employed the scammers as their agents.

beamerguy

I tend to agree about a claim.

Depending how much your claim is, the costs
https://www.gov.uk/make-court-claim-for-money/court-fees

With the information you have and the way they discontinued, would they risk defending and being exposed ???

Mawes

Fruitcake wrote: »

Have you tried to lobby the club and persuade them to persuade the council to take legal action against the scammers?

As for getting your money back for the time and cost you spent fighting this scam, I think the best idea as already suggested is to start your own small claim against them. Depending on how the club react, you may wish to make them co-respondents and include them in the claim as they are the principle who employed the scammers as their agents.

Fruitcake, thank you for your suggestion.
I have no beef with the club. I am sure they engaged ParkingEye in good faith to deal with a nuisance of unregulated parking and will have been dismayed to have experienced their agent's predatory and unsavoury business practices. Should I commence a claim against ParkingEye, I will, of course, notify the club as, depending on their contractual relationship with PE they may be co-respondents.

Fruitcake

Mawes wrote: »

Fruitcake, thank you for your suggestion.
I have no beef with the club. I am sure they engaged ParkingEye in good faith to deal with a nuisance of unregulated parking and will have been dismayed to have experienced their agent's predatory and unsavoury business practices. Should I commence a claim against ParkingEye, I will, of course, notify the club as, depending on their contractual relationship with PE they may be co-respondents.

The problem is not that the club employed a scammer in good faith, it's the fact that the club failed to do their homework concerning parking lie.

There is plenty of information to show they have lied in court, lied during appeals (altered signage after an appeal had been made) and been bad mouthed on several occasions by our MPs in parliamentary debate.

The club has a duty of care to its patrons and visitors, and they failed spectacularly by employing a well known and well reported bunch of serial scammers.

zilla_

Hi @mawes thank you so much for this really useful information, and very well done in your success.

I realise we're a few months further on now, but I have recently received a Parking Eye £100 PCN for 20 minutes in the same location and so would be very interested in getting hold of any information you have on the planning/advertising consent with West Berkshire Council (or any other relevant points) so I can check whether this is still an issue or not.

I have been down to the site and taken photos of the signage and everything still appears to be as you described previously.

How long did it take you to find the information out for the council incidentally? I have until Friday this week to appeal.

Umkomaas

mawes hasn't returned to this forum since 07/03/19, so may not see your post.

I realise we're a few months further on now, but I have recently received a Parking Eye £100 PCN for 20 minutes in the same location and so would be very interested in getting hold of any information you have on the planning/advertising consent with West Berkshire Council (or any other relevant points) so I can check whether this is still an issue or not.

If you are seeking this information to assist your appeal to PE (and subsequently POPLA) its a complete waste of time and is diverting you from dealing with other more important appeal points. Neither PE nor POPLA will consider any appeal relating to planning permission (for ANPR cameras) or advertising consent (for signage).

The NEWBIES FAQ sticky, post #1 takes you through the initial appeal, post #3 your (eventual) POPLA appeal.

You do need to start your own thread for any further help.