Historical parking charges at NHS hospital where I worked

alirauf04

Hi all

Back in 2022, I was driving my wife's car to the hospital I worked at as a doctor, during the covid pandemic. Whilst "free parking" onsite for keyworkers was allowed for a period of time at the height of the pandemic, this stopped around 2022, but I still parked on a few occasions without a parking permit (sadly the trust only allowed people employed for over 5 years to officially have a permit). This was mainly when we had lockdowns again, and on a couple of occasions due to train strikes.

Anyway, car parking partnership have been pursuing these tickets (in total around 8 or 9 I think), ever since and my wife has had to deal with the letters and county court claim forms given she is the registered keeper.

She went through mediation last time over a claim for three of these charges, and in the end settled to around half the cost, because we were mid house move and various other life stressors, so didn't want the hassle of going to court. I know this goes against the ethos of what this forum is all about as well as every fibre of my body, but please bare in mind, we didn't want the hassle of correspondence getting lost and going to different addresses, plus I also had bad experience previously (documented on these forums) where I went to court and the judge shockingly sided with the car parking company and I was landed with a hefty £290 odd bill. So my faith in the process has been shaken, despite previous successes on two or three occasions prior.

Anyway, bottom line now, Parking Eye are again pursuing over a further three of these parking charges, and we're just submitted the AOS and defence on MCOL. The claim form actually went to my previous address but luckily we have a postal forwarding service set up so it came to us in the nick of time, and I/we just submitted the AOS before the 14 day deadline which was tomorrow.

My questions:

1. I note all defence is now submitted on MCOL webite, whereas previously the advice was to email it in. Is this correct?
2. We emailed MCOL support address and the claim responses county court email, as well as DCB, to inform them of our change of address. I hope this will be sufficient for further correspondence to come through to us or is there an alternative means advised?
3. Any thoughts on the previous mediation outcome having an impact on this new claim? I'm inclined to see it through this time; my wife will be the defendant and I will have to go along as a witness.

Any thoughts welcome. Sorry for the long post

Coupon-mad

Parking Eye or CPP? They are different.

1. yes
2. also update your wife's account details on her Government Gateway.
3. No impact whatsoever. See it out!

Show us the Claim form, data redacted.

alirauf04

Claim Form redacted.jpg

See attached. Says parkingeye ltd t/a car parking partnership

I presumed they had taken them over

alirauf04

Sorry see above

Coupon-mad

Oh good, a badly-pleaded claim by DCB Legal for 3 PCNs but not giving 3 dates and also failing to plead the term(s) breached.

Easy one!

Use the Chan & Akande version which we won't link because it's already linked twice in the Template Defence thread.

Le_Kirk

With an issue date of 08/04/26 and providing you complete(d) the AoS after 13/04/26 and before or on 27/04/26 your defence deadline date is 4.00 p.m. on 11/05/26