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FURTHER UPDATE:
POPLA has confirmed to Penzance summer visitor Mark Roe that Parkingeye the operators of St Anthony's car park should not have 'fined' him because their signage is confusing.
Mark Roe said:
"I think this opens up both Jubilee Pool and Parking Eye to multitudes of potential parking charge refund applications.
"Those parking charges paid on the basis of deliberately misleading signage have enriched the Pool and Parking Eye, without a care in the world about whether they were reasonable or valid in the first place.
"I hope that anyone who's been scammed into coughing up £60 or £100 will challenge the Pool and Parkingeye for a refund.
"Any outstanding "parking charges" should be cancelled by the Pool and Parkingeye, and if they have in fact finally bothered to change the payment arrangements/car park terms, then hopefully that's an end to this scam gravy train."
"Jubilee Pool doesn't escape responsibility just because they've outsourced car park management to a sub-contractor. Jubilee Pool could have seen sense and withdrawn the charge via Parkingeye. They chose not to, so I'll now be suing the Pool for my time which I gave plenty of notice about.
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A dad-of-one says a £60 parking ticket for a car he had never driven left his family without their home after the dispute spiralled into two CCJs. Dzhihan Dzhafer, 29, a private hire and Uber driver, says another motorist named him as the driver responsible for a parking charge despite Dzhihan having never having owned or driven the vehicle.
I'm a random person on the internet. I hold no legal qualifications and nothing I say is advice.
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Manchester Airport, massive road queues and delays
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That's awful!
He paid £313 to set aside the CCJ then discovered a second one. Neither involved a car he had ever driven, owned, hired or kept.
"According to Dzhihan, the same person had again provided his details as the driver. While the second CCJ remained unresolved, the family's tenancy for their home came up for renewal in October 2025.
Dzhihan says their landlords had been open to renewing the tenancy, but the letting agency's insurer would not provide cover because of the CCJ showing on his credit file.
On October 20, the family lost their home.
"That was when it really became clear to me that this was no longer just a parking dispute or a credit issue," Dzhihan said. "It was affecting whether my family could have a home."
With nowhere secure for the family to live together, Dzhihan's wife and young son returned to Bulgaria while he stayed with a friend so he could continue working as an Uber driver and supporting them.
He said: "That was probably the hardest part of everything. The money and court process were stressful, but being away from my wife and especially my young son made it feel completely different. I was still working in London and trying to sort everything out, but coming back and not having my family there was difficult."
The family have since been reunited and are currently staying with Dzhihan's in-laws, but they still do not have a secure home of their own. Meanwhile, the second CCJ remains visible on Dzhihan's credit file despite an agreement being reached and a consent order being signed in an attempt to resolve the matter."
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Oof. That Popla assessor's days are numbered. Can't allow appeals - that'll incur the wrath of the BPA.
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Burnham needs to look at the whole CCJ system. I remember May promised to in 2017, but that was obviously lies.
• reliance on the Royal Mail alone in this day and age automatically means at least 1 / 2% of court claims will never arrive and the same amount of CCJs will be awarded by default, a system on its own that needs investigation.
• the process for applying to set aside a CCJ is expensive, cumbersome and wastes a great deal of court time.
• it's absurd that paying a CCJ makes little material difference. There is little incentive for many people to pay, which affects both creditors and debtors. Paying a CCJ should wipe it from history, even if there should be an additional financial penalty if paid after 28 days.4 -
Tell Burnham his "best friend" Zelensky has been given a CCJ and he'll be all over it in nanoseconds.
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Ely Valley Rd 30min stay private car park in Talbot Green, Wales has long been used by people visiting the local area to run errands, drop or collect children at the nearby Primary School and visit businesses at the adjoining Ely Valley Rd Shopping Centre.
But in recent wks dozens of drivers using the site, even for just a few mins, have been hit with charges after the rules at the site were seemingly updated to sanction anyone who leaves the shopping centre land and car park.
Site operators New Generation Parking Management said "Parking is provided for customers actively using the onsite premises. Vehicles must therefore not be left within the car park while the driver leaves the shopping centre site to visit premises elsewhere."
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This one has come up before.
Apparently the operator has left some older signs up which contain wording which does not mention the requirement to stay on site - worth noting in any appeal.2
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