Gladstones [Link Parking] - Visitor Parking County Court Claim

Coupon-mad

Good defence. Were you a visitor with a permit, or a resident there? Residents can rely on the terms of their lease or tenancy agreement, and visitors can to an extent, insofar as whatever the lease says about visitor permits.

It might be silent about them but there must have been something that arrived with the visitor permits (an email etc., sent to the resident telling them the 'rules'?).

VSOP

Coupon-mad wrote: »

Good defence. Were you a visitor with a permit, or a resident there? Residents can rely on the terms of their lease or tenancy agreement, and visitors can to an extent, insofar as whatever the lease says about visitor permits.

It might be silent about them but there must have been something that arrived with the visitor permits (an email etc., sent to the resident telling them the 'rules'?).

I am a resident but was using the visitor permit at the time as my partner was using the permit for our reserved bay.


Thanks for assisting everybody, I submitted my defence successfully and literally the next day received a questionnaire from Gladstones. Already at this stage Gladstones have said I can make a "genuine payment proposal"..

Am I right in saying I ignore this and wait for the questionnaire from the court? How long does that usually take?

Additionally, this is not my only ticket. I have had about 5 in total but they're only pursuing 1 with this claim. If successful, do you think this would be a deterrent for the parking company? Funnily enough the day after submitting my defence I received another ticket with a timestamp of 10:30PM and none of the other residents received a ticket this time JUST ME! They must have it in for me now.

KeithP

VSOP wrote: »

Thanks for assisting everybody, I submitted my defence successfully and literally the next day received a questionnaire from Gladstones. Already at this stage Gladstones have said I can make a "genuine payment proposal"..

Am I right in saying I ignore this and wait for the questionnaire from the court? How long does that usually take?

In post #2 above I wrote:

• Do not be surprised to receive an early copy of the Claimant's Directions Questionnaire, they are just trying to keep you under pressure.

The Claimant has twenty-eight days from receiving your Defence to consider their options.

You don't know when the CCBC sent your Defence to the Claimant, neither do you know what sort of delay there might be in the CCBC in dealing with the Claimant's response and notifying you.

Perhaps I can again refer you to post #2 above, this time to item 8 in the list:

• 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.

Coupon-mad

You and the other residents need to refuse to accept the scheme and get the managing agents to get them kicked out, like here:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5997200/pcm-company-introduced

The law is on your side, especially if you own the flat and have an allocated bay and easements to allow the use of visitor bays on a first come first served basis, with no charge, permit obligation or caveats in your lease.

I would not want to be the sitting ducks you all are now. Get the scum removed.

VSOP

Hi all,

I have since received another county claim from Gladstones for a larger sum relating to ~10 alleged parking violations in the same location as the my existing one. My question is, do I do anything different here given I already have an ongoing case (that has recently received small claims court allocation)?

My plan was to leverage my previous defence letter and just further bolster it e.g. check my tenancy contract and determine whether the allocated parking spaces are mentioned.

I am starting to get worried this may actually go to court. From you guys' experience, Is that common?

Thanks in advance.

VSOP

Just bumping this thread - any help above would be very much appreciated

Le_Kirk

VSOP wrote: »

I have since received another county claim from Gladstones for a larger sum relating to ~10 alleged parking violations in the same location as the my existing one. My question is, do I do anything different here given I already have an ongoing case (that has recently received small claims court allocation)?

My plan was to leverage my previous defence letter and just further bolster it e.g. check my tenancy contract and determine whether the allocated parking spaces are mentioned.

I am starting to get worried this may actually go to court. From you guys' experience, Is that common?

Thanks in advance.

What do you mean by another county claim? Do you mean a claim for the same issue or a NEW claim? Did the claim come from Gladstones or from the Northampton CCBC

VSOP

A new County Court claim instructed by Gladstones. I have just done the AOS.

Le_Kirk

If it is for a similar (alleged) infringement, submit the same or slightly modified defence and in a covering letter ask for both cases to be consolidated into one hearing. Send the same covering letter at DQ stage (unless you've already had the DQ for the first one) and keep sending covering letters until someone reads and actions them. If it is an entirely different scenario, might be better to start a new thread to prevent confusion between the two cases.

VSOP

The latest update I had with my initial claim is that it has been allocated to a local small claims court. They are for the same issue, so will ask for them to be consolidated - thanks for that!

Any idea about the success of fighting these parking cowboys in court? And how many cases actually go that far?