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Threatened with court action, but not my car!
Parge
Posts: 4 Newbie
Bit of a complicated one.
My flat has a parking space assigned to it, I don't have a car so I lease it out to a car rental company to park one of their rental cars on.
The company delivered the car on a Wednesday, so I went to register it with Park By Text who run the parking wardens in my area (London UK), and found out that they no longer run this service and only do short term permits and told me that I had to register with PEA. I tried that, however, on the PEA site it then sends you through to the park by text site again - very confusing.
I saw a PEA parking attendant the next morning, and asked her - she wasn't sure but said she wouldn't issue a penalty notice for a few days at least while I figured it out. I called Park by Text back again who issued a 24 hour permit for me for free while I figured it out.
I then finally managed to find the place where I could register for an annual permit (it turns out that PEA use a Park By Text interface but within the PEA site) but there was an added complication in that it asked for the V5 which I didn't have. Finally I figured out that you could submit without the V5, so paid the £18 a year, but then came out on the Saturday morning to find they had already given the car a ticket on the Friday morning.
Since the car is not used often, and thinking this would an appeal would be a reasonably straight forward process given the circumstances, I appealed with PEA - who rejected the appeal straight away. My neighbour advised that I contact Clarion who award the contracts to the various parking warden companies as she had had luck getting multiple tickets (for her visitors) dismissed via that route last year. So I did this. PEA took nearly a month to come back to Clarion with a response which was that "as per my appeal, I had registered in the evening and the car was parked there from the morning". At this point too they had passed the fine onto a debt collector. I have emailed PEA and the debt collector called me, and I told them that I am appealing it via Clarion, and also then I let them know that I am neither the owner nor the driver of the car but they say that because I said "I found out I had been given a ticket" in my appeal letter that I am liable for the ticket.
Any advice at all?
My flat has a parking space assigned to it, I don't have a car so I lease it out to a car rental company to park one of their rental cars on.
The company delivered the car on a Wednesday, so I went to register it with Park By Text who run the parking wardens in my area (London UK), and found out that they no longer run this service and only do short term permits and told me that I had to register with PEA. I tried that, however, on the PEA site it then sends you through to the park by text site again - very confusing.
I saw a PEA parking attendant the next morning, and asked her - she wasn't sure but said she wouldn't issue a penalty notice for a few days at least while I figured it out. I called Park by Text back again who issued a 24 hour permit for me for free while I figured it out.
I then finally managed to find the place where I could register for an annual permit (it turns out that PEA use a Park By Text interface but within the PEA site) but there was an added complication in that it asked for the V5 which I didn't have. Finally I figured out that you could submit without the V5, so paid the £18 a year, but then came out on the Saturday morning to find they had already given the car a ticket on the Friday morning.
Since the car is not used often, and thinking this would an appeal would be a reasonably straight forward process given the circumstances, I appealed with PEA - who rejected the appeal straight away. My neighbour advised that I contact Clarion who award the contracts to the various parking warden companies as she had had luck getting multiple tickets (for her visitors) dismissed via that route last year. So I did this. PEA took nearly a month to come back to Clarion with a response which was that "as per my appeal, I had registered in the evening and the car was parked there from the morning". At this point too they had passed the fine onto a debt collector. I have emailed PEA and the debt collector called me, and I told them that I am appealing it via Clarion, and also then I let them know that I am neither the owner nor the driver of the car but they say that because I said "I found out I had been given a ticket" in my appeal letter that I am liable for the ticket.
Any advice at all?
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Who are PEA?0
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PEA Parking0
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Yes, you can find their site at peaparking dot eu (sorry, I cannot post links as a new user)0
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Why do you need a permit to use a space that is assigned to you/your flat?
What does the rental/lease/freehold say with regards to this space?
what documentation do you have for this space ( excluding any nonsense form a parking company)From the Plain Language Commission:
"The BPA has surely become one of the most socially dangerous organisations in the UK"0 -
Hi there. Thanks for help so far. Just had a look at the land registry document.
The (leasehold) land shown on the plan, that I am the registered owner of includes my flat and parking space in question.0 -
There is a parking company because I believe people from outside were parking in people's assigned spaces.0
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You need to read your lease. It may (or may not) say something about parking.
If it says something we could do with knowing what it says.0 -
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Hi there. Thanks for help so far. Just had a look at the land registry document.
The (leasehold) land shown on the plan, that I am the registered owner of includes my flat and parking space in question.
ahh , so a company is operating a commercial company on YOUR land , there will probably be clauses against this
forewarn them NOT to trespass0
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