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Parking tickets 'forgotten' for 5 years & now I have to pay?
Hi everyone. In 2000/2001 I lived in the London Borough of Kensington & Chelsea, had a car & parking permit. I got quite a few tickets & then had a cleanup & made sure they were ALL paid - in fact Im sure I spoke to them to check there were none left although cant prove it.
Then in May this year I got a final demand for two tickets I had never heard of, from that era, & when I rang they told me they had 'gone missing' in their system & were 'real' tickets that had to be paid! From bloody 2000!!!!
I didnt pay, & 4 months later I had the baliffs here - so I forked out £280 to get rid of them.
What, if anything can I do about this appalling con? Is it my word against theirs & they will win? Help!!!
Re: Parking tickets 'forgotten' for 5 years & now I have to pay?
There have been some landmark appeal cases since 2000 regarding the validity of pcn's - there's a good chance that LBK&C's PCN's may have been invalid like a lot of other local authorities and they will have changed them. So you could apply under Section 7 of the Data Protection Act 1998 for details of the tickets in question though I don't know if they keep actual copies or you could apply under the Freedom of Information Act to find out if they have in fact altered their PCN's since 2000 for compliance problems. If thye have, I would argue they should refund the money including the bailiffs fees. Its worth a try.
Re: Parking tickets 'forgotten' for 5 years & now I have to pay?
Absolute disgrace, it takes them five years but I bet they only gave you so man days to pay!
You MUST fight this, try to get copies of the tickets (EXACT photocopies, many councils now send out a computer printout with (alegedly) the same details that were on the ticket, not good enough.
I only mouth my opinion, please look elsewhere for sensible advice!
Parking tickets 'forgotten' for 5 years & now I have to pay?
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