CP PLUS - dcbl - Meadowhall PCN

Mayday2

Hello,
Completely new here but looking for some help! I have read the NEWBIES thread, including the specific post 4 newbies sticky thread. However I still feel very unsure about the whole situation. Any help would be greatly greatly appreciated.

My partner worked at Meadowhall for a few months back in 2017. Her employers didn't get her number plate registered for the staff car park for a few weeks and never informed her that she was unable to park in the main car park. This resulted in 7 Parking Charge notices. The notices were from March and april and the letters arrived end of April. She ignored these letters as told by so many she worked with (yes I know, first mistake). We never heard anything else from them until this week, we received a "Notice of Debt Recovery" letter from dcbl. The fine as gone up from £120 - £150 (from what I have read this is the abuse of process?), so for all 7 this is a total of £1050. 
It is also worth noting that it is my partners father who was registered as keeper and is receiving all of these letters.
My question is, is it too late to appeal? if we ignore it will we be taken to court? with my partners line of work this would not be ideal, also her father is already going through a lot at the moment and would not be great to add this stress.

Sorry if I have missed this information elsewhere, I just worry as it is a lot more than just one ticket we would be ignoring. It may be the amount of money they would risk going to court over?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

beamerguy

7 tickets = max £700. 
FAKE ADDED £350 BY DCBL IS UNLAWFUL AND ABUSE OF PROCESS.
If this is just a debt collector letter you can ignore or if you wish you can write to DCBL (Not phone) asking for their legal authority to add £350.  They have no legal authority and this will be the start of an unreliable claim that could well result in DCBL being spanked and the claim struck out

ABUSE OF PROCESS
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6014081/abuse-of-process-district-judge-tells-bwlegal/p1?new=1

Redx

Bear in mind it's her father that may be issued with the court claim and not your partner , unless he names her as driver , in writing , before any court claim pack is issued by the CCBC in Northampton

Mayday2

Thanks very much for your comments. Do you think if I contact DCBL that is striking up the fact we are willing to communicate with them and will encourage them to keep hounding us? sorry...clearly very paranoid haha.
Do you think we are too late to appeal to CP PLUS? If I get my fathers partner to appeal as the keeper of the vehicle? 
It makes me so angry that they can get away with things like this! 

Half_way

under normal circumstances you should not contact the so called debt collectors
 have you contacted the shopping centre?

Mayday2

thanks for your comment.
No we haven't contacted the shopping centre as I was reading a thread on here from someone else who worked there in 2017 and they said the centre didn't want to know. I suppose it could be worth a try through?  I'm just worried that as it is 3 years later that we are too late to appeal.

nosferatu1001

You dont contact debt collectors. You would contact the PPC if you want to name the driver. 

Redx

It's too late for any appeal , but not for a landowner cancellation

Contacting debt collectors is foolish and a fools errand

Mayday2

ok thanks. I will have a look to see if there are any templates I can use to send to the landowner. Apart from that would you suggest I ignore and if they come with a JJC I use the information on here for defence?

nosferatu1001

Whats a "JJC"? Do you mean a CCJ? If you get a CCJ its far too late to defend. You have to defend a claim form. 

Half_way

is usually best to try and draw up your own complaint, the key thing to get to the centre is that they are jointly and severely liable for the actions of their agents.
there also appears to have been a breakdown in communications, the manager should have recorded the registration number, but failed to do so add as a direct result you n now have a parking charge notice.
so two fronts to go on. one the company for not recording the reg number, add two the shopping centre for allowing an un regulated predatory partying company to operate on its land as its agents