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DCB legal fine.
Hi all, thanks in advance for any help.
I recently recieved a letter of claim for £170 parking in 2021. This was the first i had heard of it. The car was registered to the same address from 2020 to 2025.
It was a standard letter of claim that has been posted om these forums before.
I sent them the below. (Minus identifying features)
"Dear Sir/Madam,
I write in response to your Letter of Claim dated 02/04/2026 regarding the Parking Charge Notice referenced above.
This is the first communication I have received about the alleged debt in the 5+ years since the alleged violation. Despite living at the same address for 3 years following the alleged violation.
I dispute your 'parking charge', as the keeper of the vehicle. I deny any liability or contractual agreement and I will be making a complaint about your predatory conduct to your client landowner.
There will be no admissions as to who was driving and no assumptions can be drawn. Since your letter of claim is a vague template, I require an explanation of the allegation and your evidence. You must include a close up actual photograph of the sign you contend was at the location on the material date as well as your images of the vehicle.
If the allegation concerns a PDT machine, the data supplied in response to this appeal must include the record of payments made - showing partial VRNs - and an explanation of the reason for the PCN, because your Notice does not explain it.
If the allegation involves an alleged overstay of minutes, your evidence must include the actual grace period agreed by the landowner.
I request that you:
Provide full, unredacted ANPR images of both the entry and exit timestamps that you are relying on.
Disclose any other ANPR images recorded for the same vehicle on that date.
Provide copies of the signage in place at the site on the date of the alleged contravention, including evidence of how and where it was displayed.
4. Provide copies of all other attempts at communication regarding this "debt" including the original PCN.
Provide a copy of your data processing agreement and compliance with ICO guidance for ANPR usage and data retention.
This matter is currently disputed. Please confirm that the case is placed on hold pending a full investigation and disclosure of the requested evidence.
Should you proceed with court action without providing the requested documents or fail to consider this dispute properly, I will draw the court’s attention to your failure to comply with the Pre-Action Protocol for Debt Claims.
Yours faithfully, "
They have replied with this today. 23/4 and only provided images of the car entering and leaving the car park roughly 40 minutes apart.
"We write in response to your correspondence received in our office.
We now respond to the same as follows.
It is our position that the Letter of Claim ("LOC") is compliant with the Pre-Action Protocol for Debt Claims ("the Protocol"). The LOC provides adequate information for you to identify the debt that our client is seeking to recover. We respectfully draw your attention to paragraph 2.1(c) of the Protocol and remind you that both parties are expected to act reasonably and proportionately.
When parking on private land, the contractual terms of the site are set out on the signs. You are entering a contract and agreeing to the terms by parking and staying on the site. Parking in breach of the terms as stipulated on the signage means that you are then breaking the terms of the contract.
The terms and conditions on the signs clearly provided tariff rates to pay for parking, if the correct payment was not made a parking charge would be issued. The parking charge was issued correctly as you failed to pay for the correct time your vehicle was on site.
In order to identify the Registered Keeper of the vehicle, our client submitted a request for details to the DVLA. Your details were provided and thereafter notices were sent to you by our client at your serviceable address. Those notices asked you to either make payment or, if you were not driving, nominate a driver by providing their name and full address. You did neither and as such you are now pursued on the basis that you were driving. On the balance of probabilities, if you were not the driver, you would have nominated. Having not received payment, address verification was carried out prior to the Letter of Claim being sent. Your new address was located and as such the Letter of Claim was issued to you at the traced address.
Furthermore, our client has a period of six years to pursue payment of a Parking Charge (known as the "limitation period"). Court proceedings should only be issued as a last resort when all other avenues have been exhausted. Our client will have made various attempts to recover payment before instructing ourselves to commence Court action and we are now instructed as all prior efforts to recover payment have been unsuccessful.
If there are any documents that you have requested, but that are not attached, it is because we have deemed the request to be disproportionate and/or not relevant to the substantive issues in dispute. We respectfully draw your attention to paragraph 2.1(c) of the Protocol and remind you that both parties are expected to act reasonably and proportionately.
You now have 30 days from the date of this email to make payment of £170.00. Failure to make payment may result in a Claim being issued against you without any further reference.
Payment can be made via bank transfer to our designated client account: -"
Frankly, i cant afford to pay this. So any help getting it quashed or reduced would be amazing.
Thanks
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You wont obtain either at the moment
Its definitely NOT a fine, just an outstanding unpaid Invoice
Name the private parking company claimant involved, those who hired DCB LEGAL
Then wait for the inevitable N1SDT Money Claim pack from the CNBC in Northampton using MCOL to arrive in the post in the future
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You now have 30 days from the date of this email to make payment of £170.00
What a load of rubbish
DCBL are using the the famous OSNER / BPA extortion racket when a much higher Authority of DCBL, the SUPREME COURT, ruled that the parking charge is set for operating the scheme.
It means that DCBL are scamming you for a DOUBLE RECOVERY amount of £70
If DCBL want to take a fake scam to court, that is their problem
It will no doubt lead to a spanking for DCBL and that is why Mr Croot of DCBL discontinues such rubbish on a regular basis
DCBL are just a joke and you play this stupid game with them
Read all about this rubbish in the DCBL DISCONTUATION THREAD
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So i do nothing for now?
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Smart parking limited are the client.
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OK, So
wait for the inevitable N1SDT Money Claim pack from the CNBC in Northampton using MCOL to arrive in the post in the future
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We never need to see DCB Legal's replies.
Read the Smart Parking claim defence Group Thread now because you'll be using that defence (the updated one posted there last week). No link. Search the forum!
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