Parking fines

Grizebeck

This can be ignored 

Old_Slobberchops

KeithP said:

Just wondering...

Does The Pre-Action Protocol for Debt Claims have any relevance outside England and Wales?

No. Not in Scotland. It's straight in with a Simple Procedure. For some people its been handed to them out of the blue.

KeithP

The vehicle's registration number is clearly written in that post.

The two PCN numbers are visible in the text of those PCNs you have shown us (and they are still in a 3rd August post)

That picture of a sign looks like an office copy of what a sign might look like when the graphics designer showed it to his client. It definitely is not a picture of a sign installed in any car park anywhere.

Coupon-mad

Nothing will happen anyway as it's Scotland.  Things will change when you get keeper liability in 2024ish but not retrospectively.

Keep it all in a file marked 'scams'.

Soarfree

Thank you again for the help. When you say nothing will happen, does that mean I won’t have to appear in court? And I deleted the post as the reg and PCN was on it. Thank you KeithP

Umkomaas

Soarfree said:

Thank you again for the help. When you say nothing will happen, does that mean I won’t have to appear in court? And I deleted the post as the reg and PCN was on it. Thank you KeithP

No one can guarantee anything, but unless they know the name of the driver (in Scotland), there's no one else they can pursue through the Sheriff Court, especially the Registered Keeper. 

Which parking firm?

Coupon-mad

Soarfree said:

Thank you again for the help. When you say nothing will happen, does that mean I won’t have to appear in court?

It's Scotland. Of course not, as is explained in every Scottish thread.

And read the Scottish CAB advice about parking charges. It's actually pretty good about private parking scams, unlike the English CAB

Your CAB has published informed articles too, such as one begging Government 'Don't Park the new Code' or summat like that.

Soarfree

that’s interesting about the CAB, a few years ago my local one advised me to pay a parking fine. I had been to the post office to pay it, and the PO worker said I didn’t need to pay it. The CAB told me she shouldn’t have said that and advised me to pay, and I did! Will read up on the Scottish CAB  guidelines.

Jenni_D

You get good and bad advisors in all walks of life. 🤷‍♀️

Is the first part of your forum name pronounced shore? (Someone I used to know played in a band called Soar Patrol but it was pronounced Shore Patrol)  

Soarfree

hello it’s me again. About to send this to the retail park manager. Is it ok, or too identifiable saying the driver didn’t see the signs?

I have been issued with a letter before claim for the sum of £320 from CST Law

I was not driving the car at the time of the charges. 

The car was briefly parked in the service yard at McDonalds, on two occasions.

The driver didn’t see any parking signs. 

These charges are extortionate, and unfair, and the letters demanding payment extremely stressful. 

We are very angry as a family, we shop at S******* more than anywhere else. Spending £1000’s there each year. The cost of living increase is hitting us hard, and to get this through the door just before Christmas seems particularly cruel. 

Disappointed customer,