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2025 Parking Tickets (Scotland)
greggles96
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First time poster, long time lurker.
I recently received x2 PCNs - x1 from SMART Parking regarding 88 Washington Street & x1 from CPM (UK Car Park Management) regarding Marchbrun Drive, Paisley.
I have not responded to either yet, as I know the preference is to ignore, but want to double-check this is still relevant in 2025.
Smart Parking:
We parked up to attend a class for ~2hours, the parking machine on-site at the Car Park didn't work & RingGo kept rejecting payments. I attempted x3 payments via the app which went to pending on my account & attempted to pay over the phone and was not issued with valid parking.
I have screenshots from the RingGo app that show that the RingGo was having issues.
In this case - am I okay to ignore?
CPM:
I had parked up off the side of the airport as I had to take a call that lasted approx 15mins. As it is near the airport there weren't many spots to pull up so that was the first convenient place I could find. The PCN states that there are signs stating "No Parking at any Time". However I'm sure that they cannot enforce a penalty as no contract was made with the Registered Keeper of the car & CPM.
I understand there are "sticky threads" for more details but I cannot, for the life of me, find them.
So I thought it'd be best to get some direct advice, thanks in advance!
I recently received x2 PCNs - x1 from SMART Parking regarding 88 Washington Street & x1 from CPM (UK Car Park Management) regarding Marchbrun Drive, Paisley.
I have not responded to either yet, as I know the preference is to ignore, but want to double-check this is still relevant in 2025.
Smart Parking:
We parked up to attend a class for ~2hours, the parking machine on-site at the Car Park didn't work & RingGo kept rejecting payments. I attempted x3 payments via the app which went to pending on my account & attempted to pay over the phone and was not issued with valid parking.
I have screenshots from the RingGo app that show that the RingGo was having issues.
In this case - am I okay to ignore?
CPM:
I had parked up off the side of the airport as I had to take a call that lasted approx 15mins. As it is near the airport there weren't many spots to pull up so that was the first convenient place I could find. The PCN states that there are signs stating "No Parking at any Time". However I'm sure that they cannot enforce a penalty as no contract was made with the Registered Keeper of the car & CPM.
I understand there are "sticky threads" for more details but I cannot, for the life of me, find them.
So I thought it'd be best to get some direct advice, thanks in advance!
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have you read newbees thread about scotland?2
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I have not responded to either yet, as I know the preference is to ignore, but want to double-check this is still relevant in 2025.Yes.
You can find the sticky threads in a nanosecond with one click!
Come on...you MUST have seen my signature under every single post I make, telling you all how to navigate there.
Why do you think I carry the colourful (hopefully eye-catching?) words below? Look:
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 THREAD2 -
Coupon-mad said:I have not responded to either yet, as I know the preference is to ignore, but want to double-check this is still relevant in 2025.Yes.
You can find the sticky threads in a nanosecond with one click!
Come on...you MUST have seen my signature under every single post I make, telling you all how to navigate there.
Why do you think I carry the colourful (hopefully eye-catching?) words below? Look:
Wow, thank you for such an in-depth thread!
I cannot locate the owners of the Car parks in question, so Plan B - ignore?0 -
Yes ignore1
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