College car park

Cherry_white

Hi everyone.


Last week the driver received a windscreen PCN on a college car park. Today is the last day to pay the 'reduced fee'. The driver received the PCN for not parking within the marked bays, as the college car park is not big enough, a lot of people tend park on the grass banks at the side. However the company "parking eye" have just took over the car park and started fining innocent students who don't make an income. The car park requires a pay at the meter permit, which is displayed in the windscreen with the bought parking ticket. The car is not owned by the driving nor is the driver the keeper. The driver is just insured on it. The driver is only a student and don't make much income so this big fine really is a burden.


What would you suggest?

Umkomaas

I received the PCN for not parking within the marked bays, as the college car park is not big enough

Are you sure the parking firm is ParkingEye, because monitoring where cars are parked requires boots on the ground and PE hardly ever do this form of car park ‘management’.

Please check the paperwork received for the name of the parking firm and the details shown on it of what the ‘infringement’ actually was.

The car is not owned by me nor am I the keeper, I am just insured on it.

So at the moment this is not your case to be dealing with. To whom has the documentation been addressed? They need to deal with it. Come back and tell us where things currently stand.

Do nothing until you’ve answered the above and receive further advice on how to proceed.

Fruitcake

It is not a fine.

Edit your post to remove all information about who did what. Only ever refer to The Driver and The Keeper who are two different people. Do this before you do anything else!

Then, and only then, start reading the sticky thread for NEWBIES that was just underneath where you clicked on the new thread button.

It is very, very unusual for parking eye to use parking operatives onsite. They make more money by using unfit for purpose ANPR scameras.

The Driver should hand the NTD to The Keeper, and The Keeper should appeal to the PPC using the ready made template in blue text from post 1 of the NEWBIES. They should send it around day 26, unaltered.
Do not reveal the driver's identity at any point.

Common parking acronyms and abbreviations can be found in post 5 of the NEWBIES.

Cherry_white

Umkomaas wrote: »

Are you sure the parking firm is ParkingEye

Definitely parking eye. The infringement was not parking in marked bays and/or parking on grass, verge or kerbstone.

Umkomaas wrote: »

To whom has the documentation been addressed?

No addressed documentation as of yet, just a windscreen PCN

Fruitcake

Cherry_white wrote: »

Definitely parking eye.



No addressed documentation as of yet, just a windscreen PCN

You have not taken the advice to edit your initial post before you do anything else. Of course you don't have to follow the advice here, but it is given for very good reasons.

The Driver has no involvement in this at all save that of handing the NTD to the Keeper who should then act as per the advice already given in post # 3.

The_Deep

I really am at a loss with what to do.

Have you read the stickies/FAQs?

PE are fraudsters, read this

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

[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Nine times out of ten of these tickets are scams so consider complaining to your MP, it can cause the scammer extra work.

Parliament is well aware of the MO of these private parking companies, many of whom are former clampers, 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[/FONT]

Cherry_white

Edited. So the keeper should send the template appeal exactly 26 days after the NTD was issued? What happens if the appeal is rejected?

Le_Kirk

Cherry_white wrote: »

Edited. So the keeper should send the template appeal exactly 26 days after the NTD was issued? What happens if the appeal is rejected?

The appeal will be rejected but you should receive a POPLA code with the rejection (unless the PPC is IPC member) and you appeal to POPLA using the information in the NEWBIE sticky post # 3. In the meantime complain to the College.

Fruitcake

Cherry_white wrote: »

Edited. So the keeper should send the template appeal exactly 26 days after the NTD was issued? What happens if the appeal is rejected?

The keeper should come here and read the NEWBIES. That way they will know exactly what to do and when, and how to construct a PoPLA appeal.

Umkomaas

Cherry_white wrote: »

Definitely parking eye. The infringement was not parking in marked bays and/or parking on grass, verge or kerbstone.

Quite odd. Is your college anywhere near PE HQ in Chorley?

Are the windscreen ticket infringement details hand-written or produced in typeface by a handheld device?

Coupon-mad

The infringement was not parking in marked bays and/or parking on grass, verge or kerbstone.

So you are telling us that PARKINGEYE issued a windsreen PCN?

This is so rare that I can count on one hand, the times I recall hearing this in over tens years of fighting PPCs! Are you sure, show us the PCN please!

If it is true, I can tell you that P/Eye will probably forget to send any NTK.

OBVIOUSLY, THE DRIVER IS NOT THE PERSON WHO APPEALS! DON'T LET THE WRONG PARTY APPEAL THIS ONE!