DCBLegal ltd Letter Of Claim

verdomde

Hi

I have recieved a letter of claim yesterday, dated a few days ago

They are asking for £1k plus costs if they claim and are saying I should fill a reply form and financial statement online.

They offer a dispute resolution call.

It's for 8 Parked in contraventions.

Please advise?

More specific details to follow (if you don't deem that inadvisable)

Thanks

Le_Kirk

Yes, we will need a few more details!  Who is the parking company, what sort of car park, i.e. supermarket, residential, airport.  Did you appeal any of the PCNs?  How did you get to eight?  Is it council or private?

verdomde

Hi, sorry- I didn't receive notification of your message!

It's Total Car Parks Limited

It's a derelict piece of land behind a building with scaffolding, it's used as parking for the flats where I lived- I did not originaly have parking, but my landlord changed his registration for mine halfway through my tenancy.

(The landowner/manager apparently contacted my landlord sometime after confirming the change and reneged on it- the landlord did not tell me), so I just kept parking there. I didn't recieve the PCNs in the post while living in those flats,  When I moved house and eventually remembered to change my address with the DVLA I got the PCN's all at once.

I haven't appealed them, I was in contact with Total Car Parks to let them know of the arrangement with the landlord, and had assumed they'd cancelled them as they never wrote back.

I have also contacted them since getting the letter of claim, that;s when I learned the info about them reneging on the registration change, but Total Car Parks say I didn't have authorisation to park, so they won't cancel.
I got the original PCNs 2 years ago.

It's private I believe. Total Car Parks (and the letter from the landlord) are communications with an entity Team AB Services, they are impossible to find online except the listing on companies house, I can't find an email for them either (the letters I was shown were redacted.)

verdomde

I had previously appealed and lost an older ticket, where I was told by an employee that I could use the parking when I was moving in. On checking that's one of the 8

Also, i've sent a SAR email and an email to the solicitor about taking debt advice

Le_Kirk

verdomde said:

Hi, sorry- I didn't receive notification of your message!

It's Total Car Parks Limited

It's a derelict piece of land behind a building with scaffolding, it's used as parking for the flats where I lived- I did not originally have parking, but my landlord changed his registration for mine halfway through my tenancy.

What a bit of a mess!  Not sure I understand this bit, however, a read of the NEWBIE sticky will tell you what to do about the letter of claim.  With eight PCNs in play I would expect a claim form sooner rather than later.  Send a SAR to the DPO of the PPC (Total Car Parks) and ask for all your data and make sure they have an up-to-date address for you.  You don't want á judgment in default!

D_P_Dance

If this is a residential car park these may help

http://parking-prankster.blogspot.com/2016/11/residential-parking.html

https://forums.landlordzone.co.uk/forum/residential-letting-questions/1053920-private-parking-companies

also google "primacy of contract", read other "own space" threads, and complain to your MP. 

verdomde

Thanks to you both
", but my landlord changed his registration for mine halfway through my tenancy."

I mean his car was registered, but he asked them to change it to my car ( he asked that registration xxxxxxxx be changed for my own reg) 

verdomde

 primacy of contract - a contract cannot be unilaterally altered by one party without the permission of the other

Meaning it's like the landowner unilaterally changed their mind on swapping the registrations? I would think the actual contract between the landlord and the landowner would take precedence over the email confirmation?

Unless you mean my landlord telling me I can park there, but not telling me otherwise when the landowner reneged- in which case I think it doesn't help because my lease was never altered..

verdomde

(to be clear there was never a parking spot on my lease)

Le_Kirk

verdomde said:

Thanks to you both
", but my landlord changed his registration for mine halfway through my tenancy."

I mean his car was registered, but he asked them to change it to my car ( he asked that registration xxxxxxxx be changed for my own reg) 

Do you know: -
a) it was changed
b) what date it was changed

verdomde

The landlord/PA forwarded me a confirmation message from the landowner (or agent thereof) and his PA and the  - so I have the date and etc)