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G24 Ltd,Retail Car park Contractual Notice

Hi All,

My son has recently joined a gym to try and loose a bit of weight as the mediction he has to take for the rest of his life makes you pile on the weight.
He was using the gym above Sports Direct in a Retail Car park and he didn't read the time limit and excced his stay time by about 15 minutes.

He is from Scotland and his DVLA address confirms this.

He has received the parking Contractual Notice charge for £60 from G24 Ltd, should he just ignore,they don't know the driver of the car.


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  • Coupon-mad
    Coupon-mad Posts: 161,478 Forumite
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    edited 20 June 2022 at 5:51PM
    Ignore it, as he is in Scotland.

    But if he needs more time due to a medical condition, why doesn't he ask the gym for a 'reasonable adjustment' of additional allowed time, under the Equality Act 2010, so that his car is added to a whitelist?

    They must treat such requests seriously for someone with a medical need. It is not OK to be bound by the same fixed  ' 2 hours then you're fined' time limit as applies to people without protected characteristics.

    Read other recent posts about Scotland though, because the law will change in the next year or so, and you are getting Keeper Liability for new private PCNs. All of you drivers in Scotland will need to be more careful and read private parking signs and time limits in future.

    Stupidly, and astonishingly, the Scottish Govt think it's a good idea to copy the broken and anti-consumer Schedule 4 of the POFA and it will bring you the abject misery and financial rip-off harassment suffered by keepers here. 

    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 THREAD
  • Al_Ross
    Al_Ross Posts: 997 Forumite
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    My son has now received a letter from Trace,G24'S Debt Recovery asking for £160 now.

    Should he write saying he wasn't the driver or keep ignoring it.?
  • Umkomaas
    Umkomaas Posts: 44,401 Forumite
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    Ignore means just that, ignore.
    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 Street
  • Al_Ross said:
    My son has now received a letter from Trace,G24'S Debt Recovery asking for £160 now.

    Should he write saying he wasn't the driver or keep ignoring it.?
    Trace know they are pointless and powerless in the parking scam but they still try it on

    Your son never owed £160, just TRACE trying to scam him. He will maybe get a few rubbish letters from Trace but they will give up and tell G24 they are a failure.


    If you hear more from G24 come back herE.   IGNORE TRACE, they really are a waste of space


  • Al_Ross
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    Hi,

     My son has had new correspondence about an unpaid parking penalty from June2022 when he had outstayed his free parking time in a shopping carpark in Scotland, G24 has now passed this to bwlegal recovery in Leeds.

     

    My son lives in Scotland and the PCN occurred there.

     

    My son has previously ignored all their letters, should he ignore this too.


  • Le_Kirk
    Le_Kirk Posts: 26,329 Forumite
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    What does the NEWBIE sticky advise about Scotland?
  • Al_Ross
    Al_Ross Posts: 997 Forumite
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    Thoughts please,

    Should he reply to them stating the wasn't the driver of the car ?

    or keep ignoring,or pay up?
  • fisherjim
    fisherjim Posts: 7,111 Forumite
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    Al_Ross said:
    Thoughts please,

    Should he reply to them stating the wasn't the driver of the car ?

    or keep ignoring,or pay up?

    Have you not read any of the posts or have you forgotten what ignore means?
  • patient_dream
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    edited 8 October 2023 at 1:27PM
    BWLegal know all about Scotland ... they hope you son is a mug
    IGNORE IGNORE
  • Grizebeck
    Grizebeck Posts: 3,967 Forumite
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    fisherjim said:
    Al_Ross said:
    Thoughts please,

    Should he reply to them stating the wasn't the driver of the car ?

    or keep ignoring,or pay up?

    Have you not read any of the posts or have you forgotten what ignore means?
    It seems to me that more and more people are simply not reading what is put in front of them
    Seems to be a trend
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