Smart parking

jay49_2 · 19 March 2018 at 6:22PM

Hello - I am a Newbie..

I have rear and read load of posts and have come to the conculsion i can not ignore as i once beleived.

I got a PCN from Smart Parking from Doncaster B and M - `The car was parked for an hour and a half. You used to be allowed 2 hours but this has changed apparently ( such i found out after this notice.)

However the date of the parking contravention was 17/ 02/ 18I recieved the letter today 19/03/18 - Its actually dated 15/03/18

I have read and lost a post that says they have 14 days to send a PCN to me if not displayed on the windshield - It wasnt - It was a lovely photograph in the post!!

My question is can i use the 14 day thing to appeal?

I have 2 weeks to pay £50 then its £90 plus £10.......

The rules changed recently but didnt find out till todayafter the postman came and I googled.. ( lots of outrage) -

Many thanks

Coupon-mad · 19 March 2018 at 6:27PM

My question is can i use the 14 day thing to appeal?

Why do people focus on the dates, when the entire NTK they posted to you, isn't worded under the POFA anyway, who cares about the dates?! The wording tells you they can only hold a driver liable!

You just need to get the registered keeper (you?) to appeal using the template in the NEWBIES thread shown in my signature below. Nothing more or less, use the template appeal as rk.

Forget the 14 days for now; the NTK wording is the issue, not only the date. This does NOT all need stating at first appeal but is already covered in the template in so many words.

Because Smart do not use the POFA, you WIN at POPLA by appealing as rk!!

PLEASE EDIT YOUR FIRST POST, IT SAYS WHO PARKED...!

Fruitcake · 19 March 2018 at 6:37PM

Absolutely edit your post NOW to remove information about who did what. Only ever refer to The Driver and The Keeper, who at two different people.

jay49_2 · 17 April 2018 at 10:11AM

Thanks for the advice

The newbies blue template does what it says on the tin !!!!!

Dear ME!

Parking Charge Notice Number :!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you for your recent communication.

I have noted the points you raised and would like to confirm that we are cancelling the Parking Charge Notice.

If I can be of any further assistance please do not hesitate to contact me.

Yours sincerely,

Smart Parking Ltd

The_Deep · 17 April 2018 at 10:30AM

This is an entirely unregulated industry which is scamming the public with inflated claims for minor breaches of contracts for alleged parking offences, aided and abetted by a handful of low-rent solicitors.

Parking Eye, CPM, Smart, and another company have already been named and shamed, as has Gladstones Solicitors, and BW Legal, (these two law firms take hundreds of these cases to court each year). They lose most of them, and have been reported to the regulatory authority by an M.P. for unprofessional conduct

Hospital car parks and residential complex tickets have been especially mentioned.

The problem has become so rampant that MPs have agreed to enact a Bill to regulate these scammers. Watch the video of the Second Reading in the HofC recently.

http://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/2f0384f2-eba5-4fff-ab07-cf24b6a22918?in=12:49:41

and complain in the most robust terms to your MP. With a fair wind they will be out of business by Christmas.

Fruitcake · 17 April 2018 at 10:34AM

jay49 wrote: »

Thanks for the advice

The newbies blue template does what it says on the tin !!!!!

Dear ME!

Parking Charge Notice Number :!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you for your recent communication.

I have noted the points you raised and would like to confirm that we are cancelling the Parking Charge Notice.

If I can be of any further assistance please do not hesitate to contact me.

Yours sincerely,

[STRIKE]Smart Parking Ltd[/STRIKE]

Not-so-Smart Scammers Inc.

There, corrected it for you.

Don't forget to complain to the landowner, your MP, and Sir Greg Knight MP about this unregulated scam.

These are some of the comments made by the MPs in Parliament concerning the unregulated parking industry (Feb 2018):

https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2018-02-02/debates/CC84AF5E-AC6E-4E14-81B1-066E6A892807/Parking(CodeOfPractice)Bill

''Rip-offs from car park Cowboys must stop''; unfair treatment; signage deliberately confusing to ensure a PCN is issued; ''years of abuse by rogue parking companies''; bloodsuckers; ''the current system of regulation is hopeless, like putting Dracula in charge of the blood-bank''; extortionate fines; rogue operators; ''sense of injustice''; unfair charges and notices; wilfully misleading; signage is a deliberate act to deceive or mislead; ''confusing signs are often deliberate, to trap innocent drivers''; unreasonable; a curse; harassing; operating in a disgusting way; appeals service is no guarantee of a fair hearing; loathed; outrageous scam; dodgy practice; outrageous abuse; unscrupulous practices; ''the British Parking Association is as much use as a multi-storey car park in the Gobi desert''; and finally, by way of unanimous conclusion: ''we need to crack down on these rogue companies. They are an absolute disgrace to this country. Ordinary motorists and ordinary residents should not have to put up with this''.

These are the exact words used, so you should quote them to your MP in a complaint and ask him/her to contact Sir Greg Knight MP if he wants further information about this scam.

Coupon-mad · 17 April 2018 at 10:48AM

Hahaha, Smart do not like the template appeal!

If I can be of any further assistance please do not hesitate to contact me.

How about a SAR, to start the ball rolling?!

Smart parking

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