Old Parking Charge that I didn't know about

JoeBloggs24

I received a letter yesterday, and it seems it's a County Court Claim, for an unpaid Parking Fine.

Now this is the first I have heard about this, and received no letters from the company in question.

The company is Parkingeye Ltd.

If I had received the initial fine, I would have paid it straight away.

I'm guessing the initial fine wouldn't have been £215, which is what they now want from me, which includes court costs etc.

Can anyone advise me what to do next, as I don't want a CCJ against my credit score.

TIA

Car1980

If I had received the initial fine, I would have paid it straight away.

Well that would have been daft and nobody would tell you to do that.

Firstly, show us the court claim document with personal details removed.

Does your V5 document have the correct address on it? Letters that don't arrive are usually because the DVLA have an old address, but they've done a trace to find your latest address before the claim.

JoeBloggs24

Thanks for your reply. Car1980. I have since sold the car, but was the owner at the time of the ticket.

My address is up-to-date on my V5.

I was parked in a car park one Saturday lunch-time, and the company who's car park I used was closed all weekend. It is some offices where they are only open Mon to Fri. I sat in the car the whole 20 minutes, and wasn't actually blocking an entrance/exit, and wasn't in anyone's way.

The above isn't an excuse as to why I didn't pay, I simply received no communication from Parkingeye Ltd.

I have tried to add the attachment, but it says it isn't in the correct format.

Gr1pr

Redact your N1SDT claim form, hiding the reference number, password, name and address, VRM details, leaving the dates on show

Take a picture of the redacted form, save or change to a jpeg

Use the picture attachment next to the smiley to the attach it to your reply, adding the issue date from the top right of the claim form below

Coupon-mad

You don't need an 'excuse' - NOBODY here is advised to pay any private parking charge all the time this sector ducks regulation.

You would NOT have just paid it, surely?

Show us a redacted photo of the Claim Form.

JoeBloggs24

I hope I've redacted enough/the right information.

10th Aprril, but only received this letter on Tuesday 14th. Do you only need to see the first page?

Coupon-mad

OK, an in-house ParkingEye claim with £30 added which is never on the signs and is double recovery of costs already covered by the £100 PCN.

Use the template defence and in the facts para 3 do two things:

• respond to the allegation 'not authorised' and
• copy the words you find when you search the forum for:

ParkingEye added £25 new tactic

Le_Kirk

With an issue date of 10/04/26 and providing you complete(d) the AoS after 15/04/26 and before or on 29/04/26 your defence deadline date is 4.00 p.m. on 13/05/26

JoeBloggs24

I searched for

ParkingEye added £25 new tactic

And loads of stuff came up! Maybe I'm being a bit thick?

What do I need to do exactly please?

Le_Kirk

When you search, make sure you tick "Newest" not "Best Match"

Coupon-mad

Of course loads of results came up. That's rather the point..!

We assume you filtered to read NEWEST and copied the wording from one of them. Changing £25 to £30 of course.