Help with DCB Legal

Abs101

Hi everyone, sorry to bother you I just need some help with defending parking charges from ukpc and being claimed by dcb legal. 

I have been served loc for 5 parking charges 24,25,26,27th of June. Reasons claimed I parked for too long and parking on pavement. 

(1) On those days I have just got the keys to the apartment and was moving my stuffs from my previous apartment to the new one so needed to move very close to the entrance to offload.  

(2) I’m not sure I was the one diving but my partner so I wasn’t the driver. 

(3) where signage is located is not visible from where I supposedly parked and hence I honestly never saw it and wasn’t in my view. 

(4) they sent pcn to my old address which I don’t get until somehow when I changed my address on Dvla they they have already forward to dcb collectors. 

(5) I reported the issue to building manager but nothing he can do he claimed as it has been forwarded to dcb collectors. 

This was my response to the LOR 

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Dear Sirs,

I write in response to your Letter of Claim dated 23rd of September 2025.

The alleged debt is disputed in full. Any proceedings will be vigorously defended. 

(No admission as to driver)

I am the registered keeper of vehicle (reg no).     I make no admission as to who was driving.  

Your client, UK Parking Control Limited has not complied with the strict requirements of the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012, Schedule 4 (“POFA”), and therefore cannot hold me, the keeper, liable.

No notice to the keeper was ever received at my current address following my change of residence.

I put your client to strict proof of service and POFA compliance. In the absence of a properly served and fully compliant Notice to Keeper, your client has no cause of action against the keeper.

(Residential rights and derogation from grant.)

The charges relate to dates (24th, 25th, 26th and 27th April 2025) when I was moving into my apartment at (apt address).

Parking temporarily outside the building to unload belongings was necessary and reasonable.     

As a resident, I hold rights of access and quiet enjoyment. Penalising me for moving in is an unlawful derogation from grant.

(Unreasonable and unconscionable charges.)

 Your client issued five separate charges for the same moving-in event. This is unconscionable, amounts to double recovery, and fails the test of fairness under the Consumer Rights Act 2015.

(Abuse of process – added costs.)

Any attempt to recover debt collection or legal costs over and above the original parking charges is disallowed. The Supreme Court in ParkingEye v Beavis [2015] UKSC 67 made no allowance for such costs. The false add-ons are an abuse of process and will be challenged.

(Costs warning.)

Pursuing this matter despite the above will be unreasonable conduct.  I will seek to recover my own costs under CPR 27.14(2)(g) if your client proceeds with a baseless claim. 

Finally, please note my correct address for service of documents is: (I reaffirmed my address)

Any older address must be erased from your records.  

Yours faithfully, 

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and I got a response today from them 

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Dear (my name)

We write to acknowledge safe receipt of your formal response to our Letter of Claim sent to you in respect of this matter.

Having considered your response, our position in respect of this matter remains as per our Letter of Claim. We note that despite your points of dispute, there is an absence of any evidence in support of the same so that we may consider this with our Client. If you do have evidence which you believe supports your dispute, please furnish us with the same within the 30 days afforded to you.

As it stands, the initial 30 day timeframe under the Pre-Action Protocol remains, and County Court proceedings will be issued following expiry of this 30 day period, without any further reference to you.

We strongly recommend that you contact a member of our dispute resolution team on 0203 838 7038, as a matter of urgency so we may discuss this matter with you and avoid a Claim being issued against you.

If you are at all unsure of your legal position, you may wish to seek independent legal advice

 

Kind Regards,

Litigation Support Team

DCB Legal Ltd

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please do I need to respond back, what should be my next line of action?

Gr1pr

No , do not respond,  wait for the inevitable N1SDT court claim pack from the CNBC in Northampton using MCOL to arrive in the post in the next couple of months 

Le_Kirk

Your sentence #2 does not make sense even if I change diving to driving: -
(2) I’m not sure I was the one diving but my partner so I wasn’t the driver.
What were you trying to say?
When you get the N1SDT claim form as signposted by @Gr1pr, you can use Jopson v Homeguard in your defence as you were loading/unloading and that is not parking.

Abs101

Thanks for your comment, I was trying to establish the fact that I wasn’t the driver on that said day. Reason why I added I wasn’t the driver but I am the registered keeper and I make no disclosure to who driver was. 

, Le_Kirk said:

Your sentence #2 does not make sense even if I change diving to driving: -
(2) I’m not sure I was the one diving but my partner so I wasn’t the driver.
What were you trying to say?
When you get the N1SDT claim form as signposted by @Gr1pr, you can use Jopson v Homeguard in your defence as you were loading/unloading and that is not parking.

Abs101

Gr1pr said:

No , do not respond,  wait for the inevitable N1SDT court claim pack from the CNBC in Northampton using MCOL to arrive in the post in the next couple of months 

Thanks for your comment, I’ll await court claim pack