Notice to Keeper advice

Just_looking_2016

Hi everyone, I am hoping to get some advice.

My partner received a parking ticket whilst they were parked in a visitors bay at their friends property. They should have displayed the visitors permit as they normally do but just forgot. The parking ticket was from P4 Parking. I did a bit of reading online and it said to wait until nearer the time has elapsed to put in the appeal, which is what I was going to do. Unfortunately due to a sudden death in the family I totally forgot all about the ticket, not that I would have cared much either way. Today we have received a notice to keeper from TNC Parking Services. The letter says the total amount is now £125, which consists of £100 PCN amount and £25 admin fee.
Should I just pay it or is there a way to not pay it? Any help would be very welcome, thank you.
I did ask on another forum but never had much of a response and was advised to ask on here, may thanks

forgotmyname

Read the sticky threads.

If you want to throw money away i can send you my bank details. Im cheaper than P4 also. Call it £85 for cash (to be left in a brown envelope under my grey bin).

Fruitcake

Are you sure the keeper hasn't received anything prior to the "NTK"?

TNC are debt crawlers and can be ignored. If they are involved then the NTK would normally have already come from the PPC, but since this is a scam it isn't always true.

Send the blue appeal template from the NEWBIES to the PPC. Add that the debt crawler letter was the first the keeper has heard about this so is rightfully treating it as a NTK.

Complain to the BPA and DVLA that scammers have gone straight to debt crawlers without issuing a NTK.

What does the driver's friend's lease/AST say about parking/visitor parking/parking permits. Just as importantly, what doesn't it say about this.
A lease/AST has primacy of contract over anything a third party scammer says.
Look specifically for anything about the scammers ability to issue charges and take someone to court.

Both the keeper, and the driver's friend should complain to their MP about this unregulated scam.

The keeper should also send an SAR to the scammers as advised in the NEWBIES. They need to ask for information concerning ALL personal data including photos and documentation. It will be interesting to see if they include a copy of the NTK that should have been sent before the debt crawlers were involved.

Also the keeper should ask the DVLA who requested their personal data including VRN and when.

What is the date of the alleged event and the date the alleged NTK was received?

Common acronyms can be found in post 5 of the NEWBIES. I suggest you print them off or write them out for reference.

The_Deep

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 become so widespread that MPs agreed to enact a Bill to regulate these scammers. Hopefully, this will become law by Easter .