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I had been parking in the Savells car park for a couple of weeks. The car park did not have any WJ Parking signs.
On Tuesday 23 September I received a pcn for illegally parking, to my horror, the site had WJ Parking signage everywhere.
Had I missed them in my haste to park on Monday morning?
Had they been erected after I had parked? Not sure.
The signs state the carpark is for WJ PArking permit holders only. If you park illegally you will receive a PCN for £130.00.
As advised on this website , I waited for WJ Parking to contact me, which they did and I used the 1st template letter from this site, stating you need to contact the driver concerned
I have now recieved a letter from ccscollect.co.uk (Commercial Collection Serice of Thornton Heath) that is addressed to both my partner and myself - though they do not have her surname and my surname is not in full.
The letter standard blurb but also in bold and underlined TAKE NOTICE therefore that, if settlement of the above is not received in this office by 12 NOON on Thursday 11th December, we are authorised to prepare documents for the issue of county court proceeding against you. We have no doubt that legal fees, costs and interest will be added to the debt, increasing substantially the amount you must pay
Only payment in full will dissuade our clients from taking further action
This sounds worrying and I am unsure what template letter to send next and to whom. Or do I just pay
You could always ignore the letters, on the assumption that WJ Parking / CCS Collect would not bother to pursue you for the alleged debt through the courts.
If you were the driver, I'm not sure why you would respond to them that you were not the driver. Whilst you have no obligation whatsoever to inform them who the driver was at the time (or to communicate with them at all), you don't have any specific right (that I know of) to lie to them.
If, when you parked, there were no signs informing you that the car park was for permit holders only, it seems that there is no basis for the land owner to charge you for parking.
The letter that you might consider writing is that there were no restrictions in place at the time you parked, and therefore no basis for any charges (let alone any unlawful penalty charges).
If you were the driver, I'm not sure why you would respond to them that you were not the driver. Whilst you have no obligation whatsoever to inform them who the driver was at the time (or to communicate with them at all), you don't have any specific right (that I know of) to lie to them.
I don't believe he did say he wasn't driving, mearly that he acknowledged them writing to him as the "Registered Keeper" using the DVLA information. They were then advised to write to the "Driver" which may or may not still be Skye002. That is for him to know and WJParking to find out.
PCN Didcot Savells
for illegally parking, to my horror, the site had WJ Parking signage everywhere.
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