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Parking on white line in parking bay
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Why do people think that they can or should appeal without the keeper's name and address? That's not what the advice says. The only thing to beware of on UKPC's webpage is, it defaults back to 'driver' if you alter anything you are filling in.PRIVATE 'PCN'? DON'T PAY BUT DON'T IGNORE IT (except N.Ireland).
CLICK at the top or bottom of any page where it says:
Home»Motoring»Parking Tickets Fines & Parking - read the NEWBIES THREAD2 -
just had an email from UKPC to say that although the parking charge was correctly issued and they were following guidlines etc we have decided to cancel the parking charge as a gesture of goodwill.
I would like to thank you all for the advice given, otherwise I probably would have paid them the £60.4 -
Nice one, good result. 🥂allways_injured said:just had an email from UKPC to say that although the parking charge was correctly issued and they were following guidlines etc we have decided to cancel the parking charge as a gesture of goodwill.
I would like to thank you all for the advice given, otherwise I probably would have paid them the £60.
But just like there's no man in the moon, there's no goodwill in the murky world of private parking. UKPC most likely realised you were receiving forum help, that touching a white line is a very tenuous case, and their prospect of any success was extremely remote. They've cut their losses, pure and simple.Please note, we are not a legal advice forum. I personally don't get involved in critiquing court case Defences/Witness Statements, so unable to help on that front. Please don't ask. .
I provide only my personal opinion, it is not a legal opinion, it is simply a personal one. I am not a lawyer.
Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; show him how to catch fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.#Private Parking Firms - Killing the High Street4 -
Well done ... UKPC don't do goodwill, quite the opposite. Either the landowner told them to cancel or they woke up to the fact that a judge would probably kick them out for trivial timewastingallways_injured said:just had an email from UKPC to say that although the parking charge was correctly issued and they were following guidlines etc we have decided to cancel the parking charge as a gesture of goodwill.
I would like to thank you all for the advice given, otherwise I probably would have paid them the £60.
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They probably read this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_minimis
Why not, as a gesture of goodwill, send them a letter before action.
https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/law-and-courts/legal-system/small-claims/making-a-small-claim/
You never know how far you can go until you go too far.3 -
Well done OP. Not sure it would be a gesture of goodwill but it would certainly be a gesture!D_P_Dance said:They probably read this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_minimis
Why not, as a gesture of goodwill, send them a letter before action.
https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/law-and-courts/legal-system/small-claims/making-a-small-claim/2 -
Could have been the result of the emails that you sent or that the PPC knew that they were on dodgy ground if the case went to court. Still a good result. Well done.
Nolite te bast--des carborundorum.1
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