Private Parking Fine Template Advice

Coupon-mad

Brilliant and only fair in your case!  Glad you also got fixed costs for attending.

ANOTHER F1RST ONE BITES THE DUST!

The screen they'd also ran showed an entry and exit date of 01/01/2010, which I pointed out to the judge and he just sort of scoffed and said that it made no sense as that was eight years before the PCN was issued. So I was quite glad really that he accepted it as I was able to poke holes in it.

That's so incompetent but, not only that, as the permit had been awarded to you by the Uni Approved Permit system 3 days before, I expect if they'd showed a 'whitelist lookup' from the right day, it would have shown you were exempt all along.  You must have been on that whitelist otherwise what's the whitelist for?! 

So, one wonders why they showed a log from the wrong date and year entirely - negligence, or...trying it on?

I've been to the University about this... LOTS. I got the original PCN back in October 2018!! And I've fought it tooth and nail since. I had my last correspondence with the University about it in April 2019, and hadn't heard anything since until I got a letter of a solicitor a few weeks back and then a letter saying it's going to court.

The University are refusing for it to be waived. They even asked me to get a letter of support form my school that they would pass on to First Parking in my favour... so I got the senior manager of Humanities to write one for me, and the University just ignored it. Then when I repeatedly chased them over it, they said they could no longer get involved! 

Keele is reknowned for letting their students go to court over parking tickets.

I even had a meeting with the head of estates over it and he basically said he can't let me off, because then he would have to let everyone off... despite the fact that I picked up and displayed a permit that same day. He then started arguing that although I have evidence that I picked my permit up that day, the photo I had taken didn't show it in my windscreen, so I might not have displayed it.

So trust me when I say, I've tried to resolve it through the University, but they are determined for me to pay!! 

Keele gets 50% of the PCNS paid on campus, so I can only assume that's why they are refusing to help me.

I hope you are going to follow up on those emails with your outcome?

And ask that they take stock and 'learn from this debacle' because Keele being notorious for letting their students be sued by their parking firm agent is not a good position to be in, and they are losing court cases (more than one on here over the years).

In your case, wasn't this charge for accessing the offered 'reasonable adjustment' of the permit disability discrimination by the Uni and their agents (if it was a long-term or remitting/repeating medical condition that was the reason why you were awarded an on campus permit)?   The Uni is at all times liable for the actions of their agents.   The Equality Act 2010 covers people with diverse protected characteristics of medical need that meet the definition of disability. 

Maybe they should ask the Law Faculty for advice on that and ask themselves how and why their agent's signs are incapable of creating a contractual obligation to display a permit anyway.  And why, given there is a WHITELIST, are they even fining people whose paper permit slips down or is forgotten one day?  This is predatory and unfair, and has no commercial justification, given F1rst Parking and the Uni Security staff thinking of printing a 'PCN' could simply consult the electronic Whitelist all along.

I also hope there is a way you can spread the word far and wide among students and staff (Student newsletter or community WhatsApp group if you are still there?) giving a factual report about how you won this in court and a link to this forum for others who need help.

The odd thing about all this is, the parking industry is being regulated by Government in 2022 (at last) and F1rst are arguably among the 'better ones' with lower parking charges and a 50% discount already.  But they need to stop harassing students and staff with 3rd party aggressive debt collectors, and taking people to court and/or frightening them into paying exaggerated claims.

shelola

Hi where can I find the template letter for parking fines please

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Newbies/FAQ thread.

Coupon-mad

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