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UKPC Parking Charge - In Disabled Space advice please
The lowdown is I was visiting a friend, I parked in a disabled bay as no other spaces were available (there was two disabled bays both empty so i parked in one) There was a clear sign saying about fines etc which I admit i ignored as I was only using the space for a short while, The company is UKPC, they left a note on my windscreen which i found the next morning although it was soaked and completely unreadable. I went home and a few days later received a letter asking me to pay £45 within 14 days or £90 after that with a photo of my car on it. It is on private land.
My questions are as follows:
1) should i ignore it or pay it?
2) In how many cases does ignoring them completely work?
3) should I send them any kind of letter about the payment request they have made and if they do start with threats at what point should I send them a letter?
4) it's my understanding from what ive read that they cannot prove that I am the driver of the car only the owner is this worth persuing?
5) Bailliffs is this a possibility?
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NEVER EVER - act on a private message asking you to visit another website, make contact 'off list' or by telephone
- alert the siteteam IMMEDIATELY by hitting the black warning triangle on any message - Particularly if this results in a request to pay a fee to help you.
rather than hittting to be my friend - hit the star
Re: UKPC Parking Charge - In Disabled Space advice please
10000000000% IGNORE it. Whatever you do, do not contact them in any way at all, phone or letters. They will send you a series of seemingly scary letters, some from apparent debt collectors (still them) and solicitors (still them again). Then they will just go away.
Re: UKPC Parking Charge - In Disabled Space advice please
Apart from the moral point of parking in a disabled bay, these marked bays on private land have no legal status whatsoever. So continue to ignore.
regards
Please remember our troops, fighting and dying in our name. God protect them.
Re: UKPC Parking Charge - In Disabled Space advice please
I recieved this a a short while ago, I have not yet contacted them in any regard. It states that the "parking charge has not been paid" and It is "now too late to pay a discounted rate" it now stands at £90. I will keep posting everything that comes through from them. Do you think I should be considering contacting them yet, for proof of the driver and that the fine is disproportionate?
Cheers
Bob2dis
**** Unfortunatly this is the largest I can get the letters to appear, the originals I uploaded were full size, if anyone knows of another way please share
Re: UKPC Parking Charge - In Disabled Space advice please
Don't contact them. Ignore their fraudulent rubbish.
Feel free to forward a copy to you local Trading Standards - play dumb and say you aren't sure whether you should pay it as you are unsure whether it is the result of a council pcn, as it is headed 'Charge Certificate'.
7. Thinking of a Full & Final Settlement?Read Here
my views are my own...seek legal advice if ness
NEVER EVER - act on a private message asking you to visit another website, make contact 'off list' or by telephone
- alert the siteteam IMMEDIATELY by hitting the black warning triangle on any message - Particularly if this results in a request to pay a fee to help you.
rather than hittting to be my friend - hit the star
Re: UKPC Parking Charge - In Disabled Space advice please
or send hard copies to the council parking dept complaining about the non-compliant charge certificate. better yet send them to the TPT. while ignoring the PPC.
Re: UKPC Parking Charge - In Disabled Space advice please
I am more than happy to forward a copy to the local local Trading Standards and the council parking dept. I will see if I can find addresses and will do so, if I get any response I will post the result.
dx100uk: I have now read this forum in depth and should it go so far as I am forced to make contact I have the letter templates provided by Bernie_the_Bolt, which for others information is here.
I dont see it going that far though I expect them to give up.
Re: UKPC Parking Charge - In Disabled Space advice please
Bernie's letters are good, but the best thing we've discovered is to NEVER contact them. They want you to write so that they can weigh you up, which is why they have a fake 'appeals' address.
If you never contact them you're onto a winner - they get bored sooner, and they won't take you to court (not that there's much chance of that anyway). Too risky doing court - the parking company have no idea who they'd be taking on.
Re: UKPC Parking Charge - In Disabled Space advice please
Originally Posted by bob2dis
I recieved this a a short while ago, I have not yet contacted them in any regard. It states that the "parking charge has not been paid" and It is "now too late to pay a discounted rate" it now stands at £90. I will keep posting everything that comes through from them. Do you think I should be considering contacting them yet, for proof of the driver and that the fine is disproportionate?
Cheers
Bob2dis
Bob, as stated by other do NOT contact them, hold your nerve and ignore these clowns.
regards
Please remember our troops, fighting and dying in our name. God protect them.
Re: UKPC Parking Charge - In Disabled Space advice please
Hi all,
Last week I received another letter this time from Debt Recovery Plus Ltd, This is where it starts to get interesting, I have still had no contact what so ever with UKPC or this Debt Recovery Plus Ltd, does anyone know anything about them.
Heres the information on the letter.
Debt recovery Plus Ltd
P.O. Box 259,
Ashton Under Lyne,
OL6 0ES
Registered Office: 5 Grange Park Road, Cheadle, Cheshire, SK8 1HQ
Company Registration Number: 6774510
The letter warns of "intended Litigation before legal proceeding in the county court are issued."
"Unless you pay us the amount in full within 10 days or contact us immediately with your proposals for payment our solicitors WILL commence legal action against you. If successful this could lead to a County Court Judgement being issued against you. Enforcement options include:
-Warrant of execution by baliffs against goods owned.
-An attachment of Earnings order (whats this?)
- Your personal Effects being sold to pay the amount at judgement.
The courts will also be requested to award statutory interest, court costs and legal fees which will significantly increase the amount outstanding."
"Ignoring this letter will not make it go away. Legal proceedings will follow."
Advice on what I should do, do i need to get them to pass me back to the UKPC Ltd as its a disbuted claim or carry on ignoring as its same people?
7. Thinking of a Full & Final Settlement?Read Here
my views are my own...seek legal advice if ness
NEVER EVER - act on a private message asking you to visit another website, make contact 'off list' or by telephone
- alert the siteteam IMMEDIATELY by hitting the black warning triangle on any message - Particularly if this results in a request to pay a fee to help you.
rather than hittting to be my friend - hit the star
Re: UKPC Parking Charge - In Disabled Space advice please
"Ignoring this letter will not make it go away". They are correct, ignoring the letter does not make the letter go away. Put it in the drawer and ignore it and it will still be there months later long after the PPC and their powerless DCA friends have gone away. You have been warned ! And you will still have the all their letters just in case you wish to send complaints to TS, CSA etc etc. Never ignore their letters, always file them carefully in the 'evidence drawer' and keep them for quite some time - just in case the PPC has a rush of blood months down the line or the letters become useful for a public consultation.
UKPC Parking Charge - In Disabled Space advice please
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Originally Posted by bob2dis
And you will still have the all their letters just in case you wish to send complaints to TS, CSA etc etc. Never ignore their letters, always file them carefully in the 'evidence drawer' and keep them for quite some time - just in case the PPC has a rush of blood months down the line or the letters become useful for a public consultation.