CST letters' forum group thread

blackdog2220

who was the landowner , was it a company or was it actually a smart parking OWNED car park 

Cheen18

The car park is operated by smart parking I think. It’s a car park used for multiple businesses such  as a gym, casino, travel lodge and pizza shop which is where I worked at the time and was told just to ignore the letters by them.

beamerguy

Cheen18 said:

The car park is operated by smart parking I think. It’s a car park used for multiple businesses such  as a gym, casino, travel lodge and pizza shop which is where I worked at the time and was told just to ignore the letters by them.

Go and ask the Pizza company to give you in writing that you were allowed ro park.
Such letters are important if it goes to court

Cheen18

beamerguy said:

Cheen18 said:

The car park is operated by smart parking I think. It’s a car park used for multiple businesses such  as a gym, casino, travel lodge and pizza shop which is where I worked at the time and was told just to ignore the letters by them.

Go and ask the Pizza company to give you in writing that you were allowed ro park.
Such letters are important if it goes to court

Id rather it didn’t go to court if possible. Would replying to the letter with a letter from the pizza company stop them from chasing me up?

Cheen18

The letter gave me these options.

D_P_Dance

IMO that is unlikely 

beamerguy

Cheen18 said:

beamerguy said:

Cheen18 said:

The car park is operated by smart parking I think. It’s a car park used for multiple businesses such  as a gym, casino, travel lodge and pizza shop which is where I worked at the time and was told just to ignore the letters by them.

Go and ask the Pizza company to give you in writing that you were allowed ro park.
Such letters are important if it goes to court

Id rather it didn’t go to court if possible. Would replying to the letter with a letter from the pizza company stop them from chasing me up?

They may because thickness is part of their makeup.  You parked in good faith because you were told you can.  You need proof of that. By all means show them a letter from the Pizza shop.
This gives them the opportunity to stop. Thereafter, if they ignore you could claim for Unreasonable Behaviour

How much was each ticket ?

blackdog2220

Cheen18 said:

So I’ve received a letter before action for 5 of these in the space of a week in 2020. I was parking in a car park and was authorised and instructed to do so by my employer at the time. I was the driver however I have ignored all correspondence from them. I now have the letter before claim letter. Not sure what to do.

as this is a letter before action , and you were assured by pizza boss you were ok to park you need to do some vthings urgently 
pizza boss , copy of his email to smart putting you on "white list" , and date CHECK THE VRN 
smart , SAR asking for all details regarding yourself and your VRN 

finally not sure if this applies in scotland (others advise) , closer to the 28 days (letter befor claim?) advise cst that you are seeking debt advise andd to put the case on hold for 30 days 

this all boils down to pizza shop , strange that in working there for <time> and parking in car park <XXXXX> times as authorised there anpr and back office systems have failed on 5 occassions 

with backing from pizza boss , there "anpr and back office systems have failed on 5 occassions " amongst the many times you were on shift / parked is gonna look stupid in front of judge 

how long were you employed by pizza co , and how many times did you use that car park , if you were a delivery person , I suspect many times per shift 

Cheen18

Each ticket is quoted as £170 so £850 total but looking now from my texts to the pizza shop I had another letter before claim in July 2020 and ignored that. That one had 4 tickets. I’ve ignored them up to this point so I really only want to engage if necessary 

Cheen18

As I said before the name on the letters is wrong. The first name has one different letter but it does turn it into a different name which isn’t technically me? I don’t know if this matters.