PCN Port of Wells Civil Enforcement Ltd

I have ten days left to pay this extortionate amount.

No, you have the rest of your life not to pay it. If the land is covered by bye-Laws, unless the Harbour Authority gets this in front of a magistrate they can F.O.A.D.

The Wells Harbour notice

http://www.wellsharbour.co.uk/na918.htm

states that penalty notices will be issued for non payment. The OP paid and this was probably a charge notice issued under contract law. Why did not PoPLA not notice this? Also, it seems that the Harbour Master needs to be put right about his responsibility for his contractor's actions.

There may be something in here that you can use to your advantage

https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/ShowUserReviews-g315941-d4875387-r514509382-Wells_Next_The_Sea_Beach-Wells_next_the_Sea_Norfolk_East_Anglia_England.html

£7.00 to park, this sounds like a place to avoid.

This is an entirely unregulated industry which is scamming the public with inflated claims for minor breaches of alleged contracts for alleged parking offences, aided and abetted by a handful of low-rent solicitors. Is has been suggested by an MP that some of these companies may have connections to organised crime.

Parking Eye, CPM, Smart, (especially Smart}, and others have already been named and shamed in the House of Commons as have Gladstones Solicitors, and BW Legal, (these two law firms take hundreds of these cases to court each week), hospital car parks and residential complex tickets have been especially mentioned. They lose most of them, and have been reported to the regulatory authority by an M.P. for unprofessional conduct

The problem become so widespread that MPs agreed to enact a Bill to regulate these scammers. It has cleared Parliament and hopefully, this will become law shortly.

No one can turn up at your house and take anything, well, they can but we call those burglars! If you go to court and lose and fail to pay the court order, then and only then, can the claimant apply to the court to collect payment from you.

I've confirmed with Port of Wells that the car park is covered under bye-laws, so POFA isn't applicable, and also CEL are unable to pursue the keeper.

They are about to get a GFY letter.

I too have a Port of Wells parking charge notice going back to last July. I unfortunately contacted them initially to explain our situation and appealed to their better nature. I realise now this was a mistake. I then had a family health crisis and missed the POPLA deadline. CEL refused to give me a code after this date and I have ignored them ever since.

Ive now had two ZZPS debt collection letters and now a QDR solicitors letter.

Can anyone advise me the best course of action now? Are they going to keep going now? I would still like the chance to appeal this, the signage at the site is not good enough for the changes that they made. Would I have risked a £60 automatic camera fine for the sake of a £1 ticket had the signage adequately warned me about the new cameras? I wasn't the driver. The car was never left, my family were waiting in the car while I got chips! (30-40 minute queue is standard here in the summer!) Any advice gratefully received. Can someone explain the bylaws thing above please?