Zero time tolerance for parking ticket?

Jev88

Www.dcbltd.com

They recorded me using a hotel car park for the total time of 10 minutes. 

I appealed at the time (August 2022) as there was a road closure on the main bypass due to a suspected jumper over the river and I couldn't escape the car park I entered to get off the road.

I am not arguing entering the car park and after two years don't think it is worth arguing that there was nowhere else to go.

My question is simple - isn't there meant to be a 10 minutes grace period?   They state on their own records I was there for exactly 10 minutes.

Advice welcome.
And DO please forgive me for not using the forum correctly?  I am in the middle of chemotherapy and my brain fog makes concentration difficult.

I have blanked personal details on the attached screenshot.

Gr1pr

Name the parking company involved here 

Is it DCB Legal or DCB Ltd chasing you ?

KeithP

@Jev88, if asked, I could easily tell you the registration mark of the Toyota Corolla vehicle concerned.
Your other masking isn't foolproof either.   

Jev88

Gr1pr said:

Name the parking company involved here 

Is it DCB Legal or DCB Ltd chasing you ?

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Jev88

KeithP said:

@Jev88, if asked, I could easily tell you the registration mark of the Toyota Corolla vehicle concerned.
Your other masking isn't foolproof either.   

I can see I didn't scribble enough!    But I haven't had that car for about 10 months now - returned at end of company car lease. 

Gr1pr

That information seems to be the debt collectors chasing you, not the parking company 

So please name the parking company like I asked earlier 

Jev88

Apologies.   Parkingeye

Coupon-mad

Well of course you won't be paying. Not even if DCB Legal issue a court claim.

At the moment this is just DCB Ltd, the debt crawler arm who can be totally ignored.  

What I would do is complain to the Hotel Manager, mention how stressed this is making you during chemo and ask them to step in & please email their agents ParkingEye.  The landowner can always cancel a PEye PCN. Even years later.

Jev88

Coupon-mad said:

Well of course you won't be paying. Not even if DCB Legal issue a court claim.

At the moment this is just DCB Ltd, the debt crawler arm who can be totally ignored.  

What I would do is complain to the Hotel Manager, mention how stressed this is making you during chemo and ask them to step in & please email their agents ParkingEye.  The landowner can always cancel a PEye PCN. Even years later.

Did exactly that and turns out they booted parking eye out last year but have agreed to contact them and cancel the 10 minute ticket.

Coupon-mad

I think they'll struggle and PEye will refuse.