Staff and Patient Parking...but NOT!

Jinius

Do you know how to delete posts from the thread? Can it be done?

KeithP

Jinius wrote: »

Do you know how to delete posts from the thread? Can it be done?

Yes it can be done.

Everyone can delete any post that they have written - except thread starter posts.

Go into edit on the post you want to delete and then choose delete.
You may need to confirm the delete before it actually happens.

Le_Kirk

Quentin wrote: »

That photo contains unique info that allows the PPC to identify you,!!

I have killed the link for the OP.

Quentin

Jinius wrote: »

Do you know how to delete posts from the thread? Can it be done?

You just need to edit your #25

Use a PC or laptop

Click on edit in #25

Remove the link

Click "save"

steve1500

Community Services are usually "owned" by the local NHS Hospital, although a few have been hived off to the private sector, until they go bust.


If you are part of a Trust then you can use the same route as anyone who gets an invoice in the actual hospital car park

Jinius

I have a Claim form letter now. Please can you check it? There's not much more to it really. Poor signage, so I missed it. I will try to post a photo from my phone.

In the County Court
DEFENCE
Claim No: xxxxxxxxx
Claimant: Vehicle Control Services Limited
Defendant: xxxxxxxxxx

The claimant’s signage consists of difficult to see, crowded red and black text and is positioned lower than and next to much clearer, easy to see, white NHS signage on which it is written in large font ‘Staff and Patient Parking Only’. Both signs are on the wall directly outside the entrance to an NHS building facing a small row of parking spaces.
The building is the work base for the Early Intervention in Psychosis Team, where I work as a staff member. Nearly all people who park in those spaces will be attending the building because they are carers with patients or staff. Obviously, most of them will be distressed by their condition or stressed by a demanding job and will not be spending time scanning the walls to read everything on it, especially when there is a clear sign saying the parking spaces are for Staff and Patients, as you would expect them to be, being directly outside the entrance of such a building.
I usually park down the road to enjoy a short walk to work, leaving those spaces for the much needier patients and their carers, but after a family crisis, in which my daughter had been seriously ill, I had just started a phased return to work and needed to conserve my energy, so I decided to park outside the building on the occasion of my NTK. I had seen the NHS sign and was satisfied it was OK to park there as I am a staff member and it clearly says ‘Staff and Patients Parking Only’. I did not notice any other signage at all, for the reasons given above. I imagine many people have fallen foul of this.
Since then the NHS Trust has put messages in the reception area of the building warning visitors of the private parking outside and offering permits to display in their windscreen. There were no such warnings when it happened to me. Nevertheless, it is still possible for people to make the understandable assumption that the parking there is meant for them if they are staff or a patient and completely miss the Vehichle Control Services signage, which is less readable and slightly lower than the NHS signage. Being fined is the last thing someone going through the trauma of a psychotic mental illness or their family is able to cope with. It is worth stating, because this private parking company has become predatory on the most vulnerable of people. They could make their signage visible and clear as it is very easy to do so.

The defendant asserts that failure to provide adequate clear signage, taking into consideration the aforementioned points, cannot form any contractual agreement.

I believe the facts stated in this defence are true.

Redx

that is a witness statement , not a defence

see post #2 of the newbies faq sticky thread for defence examples

post the issue date from your claim form below

Jinius

Jinius

I am not sure the photo Url has worked. Can you see the photo?

The Claim form issue date is 21st August

KeithP

Jinius wrote: »

I am not sure the photo Url has worked. Can you see the photo?

No. Don't know why it didn't work.

Try this link:

https://imgur.com/uiVXLzf

Jinius wrote: »

The Claim form issue date is 21st August

With a Claim Issue Date of 21st August, you have until Monday 9th September to do the Acknowledgement of Service, but there is nothing to be gained by delaying it. To do the AoS, follow the guidance offered in a Dropbox file linked from post #2 of the NEWBIES FAQ sticky thread. About ten minutes work - no thinking required.

Having done the AoS, you have until 4pm on Monday 23rd September 2019 to file your Defence.

That's three weeks away. Plenty of time to produce a Defence, but please don't leave it to the last minute.


When you are happy with the content, your Defence could be filed via email as suggested here:

Print your Defence.
1. Sign it and date it.
   
2. Scan the signed document back in and save it as a pdf.
   
3. Send that pdf as an email attachment to CCBCAQ@Justice.gov.uk
   
4. Just put the claim number and the word Defence in the email title, and in the body of the email something like 'Please find my Defence attached'.
   
5. Log into MCOL after a few days to see if the Claim is marked "defence received". If not chase the CCBC until it is.
   
6. Do not be surprised to receive an early copy of the Claimant's Directions Questionnaire, they are just trying to keep you under pressure.
   
7. Wait for your DQ from the CCBC, or download one from the internet, and then re-read post #2 of the NEWBIES FAQ sticky thread to find out exactly what to do with it.