Please help- Please help !! PCN from Vehicle control services ltd

SoJacob

Please see below reply from the airport to my MP forwarded to me. 

Sir David 

I hope this finds you well. 

To respond on the two separate matters raised below:

 

PCN issue for Red route stopping/parking. 

VCS is London Southend Airport’s Traffic enforcement operating partner, operating solely to ensure that our airport roads are kept safe for all pedestrians and vehicles. VCS issues PCNs (penalty charge notices) only to vehicles that have stopped on the Airport’s Red Routes. The Red Routes are very clearly signposted, just as you would expect to see on busy city centre roads where stopping is also prohibited, out of necessity, for pedestrian safety and traffic flow. Drivers that stop on the Red Routes will be issued with a PCN in all cases.

 

Access to free pick-up and drop off for the Terminal and Rail station. 

London Southend Airport offers a free 15 minute drop off facility that is less than 3 minutes’ walk (200 paces) from the Train Station entrance and 75 paces from the Terminal entrance; it is well sign posted. If a longer period is needed, due to mobility matters or in any cases of special assistance being required, the onsite help buttons can be used to extend this period free of charge and the details of this and how to seek advice in advance can be found on our website, here https://southendairport.com/flights/special-assistance 

A pick-up/drop off facility, also very well signposted, remains in the short stay carpark at a small charge, to ensure easy access and the clear maintenance of the Red Routes.

I trust this clarifies the matter

Best regards

Glyn

  

Glyn Jones

Chief Exec Officer

Redx

Except VCS issue parking charge notices , ( not penalty notices ) sometimes on areas they do not enforce , plus on pedestrian crossings or at stop signs

They then take victims to civil court , not Magistrates court , penalty notices should be issued by the landowner or maybe an airport CEO under bylaws , not under civil contract laws

So is he saying that VCS have the legal authority to issue penalty notices ? Prove it !

I don't think he even knows the legal difference between the two

This is true at numerous airports , including Bristol , Liverpool , Doncaster etc

It is useful to know that Southend airport are saying that these are penalty notices so by default must be issued under bylaws , meaning that if anyone receives a parking charge notice from VCS at an airport , it's not about parking and VCS should not be issuing a parking charge notice

Also , if it is a penalty notice then it should be taken to the magistrates court within 6 months

Only a moron would actually park on a red route !!

Coupon-mad

Plus it’s not just about red lines.  What about repeater signs with a clearway logo, actually facing oncoming traffic, placed prominently beside the kerb at very regular intervals, and fully lit in hours of darkness?

Also, as @Redx points out, he thinks VCS issue PENALTY charges!

Redx

Coupon-mad said:

Plus it’s not just about red lines.  What about repeater signs with a clearway logo, actually facing oncoming traffic, placed prominently beside the kerb at very regular intervals, and fully lit in hours of darkness?

Also, as @Redx points out, he thinks VCS issue PENALTY charges!

Check your PCN paperwork , parking or penalty ?

If it's Parking , the MP should reply and am why VCS are issuing Parking charge notices instead of penalties , under what legal authority are they allowed to issue either of them , and why do they issue a parking charge notice and not a penalty notice. Plus are they issuing it under bylaws or Civil contract laws ?

Is it because they are not allowed to impersonate a legal authority ? So not like a council for example , or the police ?

SoJacob

Hi all, 
I have got the claim form with a response pack from DCB legal LTD. Asking to pat £728. I was not in the country for a month and the issue date of this letter is 28/01/22. I am running out of time. Please kindly advise me what I should be doing next? 

Thank you. 

Umkomaas

I have got the claim form with a response pack from DCB legal LTD.

Do you mean a letter headed 'Letter of Claim' giving you 30 days in which to respond? Or do you have an actual N1 claim form from the Northampton CCBC?

SoJacob

Umkomaas said:

I have got the claim form with a response pack from DCB legal LTD.

Do you mean a letter headed 'Letter of Claim' giving you 30 days in which to respond? Or do you have an actual N1 claim form from the Northampton CCBC?

It’s headed as ‘claim form’. Pack includes N9a and N9b from CCBC, Northampton. 

Umkomaas

If it's from the CCBC, then it should have been acknowledged by 16/01/22 (19 days after date of issue). Doing so would buy you an extra 14 days to submit your defence. It may be, that having failed to meet that deadline, the claimant has already filed for default. 

Urgently acknowledge service now, then check on Monday morning that it has been received before any judgment in default, then it's on to your defence. But it all needs checking out so you know exactly where you stand. First thing Monday - check!

SoJacob

I sent CCBC an email explaining I was away and agreed to provide all travel evidences. Can I do the acknowledgment online? 

Please kindly let me know what next? 

SoJacob

I managed to login and it says ‘a judgment was issued against you on 18/02/2022 at 19:08:34’.