PCN Notice from ParkingEye on Motability Vehicle

eddyinfreehold

Ralph, I would love to contact the Bowling Centre but they are closed because of lockdown and not answering the phone. It is the one private car park surrounded by City Council car parks near the railway station in Morecambe, Lancashire. The only other occupants were a couple of tumbleweeds in the half light in drizzly dusk. A few letters to the local paper and some leafletting will make me feel better.

Coupon-mad

The NTK complies to the letter because it has the POFA words on the back (middle paragraph) and it arrived within 14 days?

If so, I'd be appealing with a copy of the Blue Badge and say that there were no signs with FULL terms on next to the disabled bay (probably true?  check and get photos).  It is not enough to have signs elsewhere.  That's about your only appeal point if the NTK is a POFA one that arrived in time.

twhitehousescat

eddyinfreehold said:

Ralph, I would love to contact the Bowling Centre but they are closed because of lockdown and not answering the phone. It is the one private car park surrounded by City Council car parks near the railway station in Morecambe, Lancashire. The only other occupants were a couple of tumbleweeds in the half light in drizzly dusk. A few letters to the local paper and some leafletting will make me feel better.

dcoes anyone actually read the morcombe visitor ? it was a standing joke 25 yrs ago , https://www.thevisitor.co.uk/news

Ralph-y

"Ralph, I would love to contact the Bowling Centre but they are closed because of lockdown and not answering the phone"

have you checked to see if they are part of a national company? Do they have directors listed? ........ and more .

This plan A is your best option ... please do not waste it.

Ralph  

eddyinfreehold

Coupon Mad. Very good point. I am going to check tomorrow. i will make a point of parking on an adjacent City Council park with my daughter and the blue badge free of charge then stepping over a kerb onto their park....

beamerguy

As above.  A few years ago, Parking Eye complained to the forum that we called them COWBOYS ...... THEY ARE BACK ? 

It is about time that the BPA puts Parking Eye back in the classroom to understand Blue badges .... it's a pipe dream, the BPA make a living from COWBOYS  

MistyZ

Ralph-y said:

"Ralph, I would love to contact the Bowling Centre but they are closed because of lockdown and not answering the phone"

have you checked to see if they are part of a national company? Do they have directors listed? ........ and more .

This plan A is your best option ... please do not waste it.

Ralph  

I am sure a landowner cancellation would annoy the heck out of Parking Eye, which would be gratifying.  

Complaints to landowners so often work very nicely, why do people think they're not worth bothering with?  As Ralph-y says, go to the top - the CEO ... or the directors.  Googling to identify them and their email addresses may require a little application but is relatively stress-free.  Then send a well-constructed, firm but polite complaint strongly requesting that they cancel the PCN.  

Do this in addition to appealing as per Coupon-mad's advice.

eddyinfreehold

Just thought I would update on this. I think I have won at the first attempt using the excellent advice from the experienced people here. I managed to track down the owners of the carpark through a series of shell companies and lucky guesses of what initials stood for in company names. I wrote to all the directors of the company yesterday and had a phone call from someone who is manning the phones ad hoc in an empty office. She left a message saying they will instruct ParkingEye to cancel the charge but need a bit more information first. I rang back but there was no answer. I hope this works out.

I was all set for an appeal as I think parkingEye fail to comply with the British Parking Association code of practice Jan 2020 document. There are two points at least where they clearly don't. As soon as I have written confirmation the charge has been waived I will publish everything, but for the moment thank you all.

D_P_Dance

I will drag it out for the fun of it and see if they go away.

IMO you are flogging a dead horse, concentrate on their unfit for purpose signs, read this

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5972164/parking-eye-signs-oxford-road-reading

and complain to your MP,  

Le_Kirk

eddyinfreehold said:

Just thought I would update on this. I think I have won at the first attempt using the excellent advice from the experienced people here. I managed to track down the owners of the carpark through a series of shell companies and lucky guesses of what initials stood for in company names. I wrote to all the directors of the company yesterday and had a phone call from someone who is manning the phones ad hoc in an empty office. She left a message saying they will instruct ParkingEye to cancel the charge but need a bit more information first. I rang back but there was no answer. I hope this works out.

I was all set for an appeal as I think ParkingEye fail to comply with the British Parking Association code of practice Jan 2020 document. There are two points at least where they clearly don't. As soon as I have written confirmation the charge has been waived I will publish everything, but for the moment thank you all.

I presume they will need the reference number; maybe send an e-mail confirming the contents of the phone call you received, thanking them for agreeing to cancel and giving the details of the PCN so they cancel the right one.