Success! Overturned seven parking fines

alexlaguma

Just wanted to drop a post in here to record a success I had by following the advice of the forum. 

Earlier this year I returned from holiday to find SEVEN parking tickets on my car windscreen. My car was parked in my private car parking space in the parking lot underneath my building complex. 

What had happened was my physical parking permit had slipped from the dashboard (must have happened when I closed the door) so it became obscured from vision. 

So the parking officer (from One Parking Solutions) had issued me seven tickets. Despite the fact that my car was the only registered vehicle allowed to park in that space. 

Naturally I had no interest in paying these fines, and I tried to follow the appeals process set out in the parking ticket. (This was before I had read this forum). Unsurprisingly the IAS rejected my appeals and ordered me to pay. OPS refused to engage with me at all, and passed on the tickets to debt collectors who sent me (literally) about a hundred letters demanding payment (which was now totalling about £1000). 

After consulting this forum, I realised the best approach was to contact the people in charge of the property. So I got in touch with the estate manager for the building, and let him know what they were trying to fleece me for a grand for parking in my own personal parking space. 

Within a few days he came back and said the parking tickets were overturned. I am obviously delighted. 

Before this experience I had no idea how much of a joke this industry is, and I can't believe how they are getting away with it. They have literally zero intention of engaging with people, purely out to harass them into payment. Something needs to be done at a central government level to reign this industry in. 

Anyway - thanks to the posters on here for the advice, it saved me a grand! 

Mr.Generous

Thanks for coming on and telling us, good result. Probably worth an email of thanks to the Estate Managers for sorting it out too.

Gr1pr

The government passed the Private Parking Bill 2019 onto the late queen for royal assent, so they definitely tried to bring in regulation 

The pigs in the trough fought back and so its still with the now MHCLG awaiting the new Code of Practice 

OPS have always been greedy tunnel vision highway men, a blight on society 

You did the right thing by getting the M.A. to get the PCNs cancelled 

Coupon-mad

alexlaguma said:

Just wanted to drop a post in here to record a success I had by following the advice of the forum. 

Earlier this year I returned from holiday to find SEVEN parking tickets on my car windscreen. My car was parked in my private car parking space in the parking lot underneath my building complex. 

What had happened was my physical parking permit had slipped from the dashboard (must have happened when I closed the door) so it became obscured from vision. 

So the parking officer (from One Parking Solutions) had issued me seven tickets. Despite the fact that my car was the only registered vehicle allowed to park in that space. 

Naturally I had no interest in paying these fines, and I tried to follow the appeals process set out in the parking ticket. (This was before I had read this forum). Unsurprisingly the IAS rejected my appeals and ordered me to pay. OPS refused to engage with me at all, and passed on the tickets to debt collectors who sent me (literally) about a hundred letters demanding payment (which was now totalling about £1000). 

After consulting this forum, I realised the best approach was to contact the people in charge of the property. So I got in touch with the estate manager for the building, and let him know what they were trying to fleece me for a grand for parking in my own personal parking space. 

Within a few days he came back and said the parking tickets were overturned. I am obviously delighted. 

Before this experience I had no idea how much of a joke this industry is, and I can't believe how they are getting away with it. They have literally zero intention of engaging with people, purely out to harass them into payment. Something needs to be done at a central government level to reign this industry in. 

Anyway - thanks to the posters on here for the advice, it saved me a grand! 

Well done!

So happy to read that you did that and slapped One Parking Solution in the face. Next, get together with other residents and get them removed permanently.

They are pariahs in Brighton especially.  Horrible, slightly stupid little snakes in my experience (I've met some of their lot in court) with an ex-clamper mentality.

But you do not need a permit scheme at all.