No appeal allowed!

[Deleted User]

Sorry if I’ve missed this but read through newbies and all links!
Mr car was parked at a bowling centre with newly installed parking company ANPR. Importantly multiple extra signage was added after the visit.
UKPC wrote to me at an old address, not where my log book is registered, so I didn’t receive anything until DRP wrote to me and the fine was £160.
I have written to DRP twice and asked them to allow me to appeal as they wrote to the wrong address. They’ve said no and carried on with the bullying tactics.
I’ve tried appealing to UKPC as advised on here but I can’t as it’s been passed to DRP.
I’ve read I can’t appeal to POPLA until I have a code...which I don’t as I can’t appeal.
I’m going to write to my MP today as advised on here but I feel stuck as to what to do next.
Firstly I was a genuine customer without receipts but witness statements, secondly it was newly installed and poorly signed, thirdly they haven’t used the log book address and therefore removed my appeal process?
The address was an old one my licence was registered to (not my log book) but was changed with DVLA a month before the fine.
Any help would be so appreciated!!

The_Deep

UKPC are fraudsters, read this

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/11858473/Parking-firm-UKPC-admits-faking-tickets-to-fine-drivers.html

Firstly, complain to the B.,P,A. then, if they persist, let them take you to court where I predict they will crash and burn.

In the meantime, complain to your MP as nine times out of ten these tickets are scams.

Parliament is well aware of the MO of these private parking companies, and on 15th March 2019 a Bill was enacted to curb the excesses of these shysters. Codes of Practice are being drawn up, an independent appeals service will be set up, and access to the DVLA's date base more rigorously policed, persistent offenders denied access to the DVLA database and unable to operate.

Hopefully life will become impossible for the worst of these scammers, but until this is done you should still complain to your MP, citing the new legislation.

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2019/8/contents/enacted

Just as the clampers were finally closed down, so hopefully will many of these Private Parking Companies.

Quentin

Everyone is asked to read up on this in the Newbies faq thread near the top of the forum before starting a new thread


Go there now to get an understanding of the game you are caught up in


Also read up on the debt collector stage you are now in (see post #4 in the FAQ)


Stop contacting them!!


You can safely ignore DRP!


Ignore everything except a LBCCA or court correspondence


If you changed your car's keeper's address a month prior to the incident how did they get an incorrect (though relevant to you)address from the DVLA? (Your licence address is irrelevant)


Throughout here you are advised never to reveal who was driving


You need to edit your post to remove details of who was driving


The ppcs monitor here and can use posts in your thread against you in court

[Deleted User]

Thank you so much, that link takes me to help with gambling? Is it the right one?
Thank you

Quentin

I can't see the connection either???


Hopefully the deep will enlighten us as to what it is!


Getting back to your issue, have you followed advice in the FAQ and complained to the bowling alley?

[Deleted User]

I can’t edit or delete my message?! It doesn’t give me the option!

My licence was registered to my old address and updated to my new address in Feb2019. My log book has always been registered to my mother’s home.

[Deleted User]

Yes! And I used the templates from the newbies thread!! Initially I used my own and they said there was nothing they could do so I used the newbie template and heard nothing back!

Quentin

In that case all correspondence from the ppc should have gone to your Mother


(They would never be told the address on your licence by the dvla)

Fruitcake

Hopefully The Deep will realise he has made a mistake and correct the link in his post.

Meanwhile contact the DVLA and ask them who requested your personal data and when. State that you believe this service to be free.
In addition, send an SAR to the scammers as per the NEWBIES.

Double check the address on your V5. Don't just guess, get it out and look at it. Check the address and the date on which it was registered to you at that address.

Ignore debt collectors as they have no powers other than the ability to send you poor quality bog paper.

Quentin

[Deleted User] wrote:

Yes! And I used the templates from the newbies thread!! Initially I used my own and they said there was nothing they could do so I used the newbie template and heard nothing back!

There's no newbie template for complaints to the retailer is there??

Fruitcake

[Deleted User] wrote:

I can’t edit or delete my message?! It doesn’t give me the option!

My licence was registered to my old address and updated to my new address in Feb2019. My log book has always been registered to my mother’s home.

If you are trying to do this on a 'phone, don't!
You need a proper grown up PC or laptop to access all functions on this site.