Hi,

Bit late to the party but just got a letter from a Debt Agency saying I am now liable to pay £160 instead of the original £60. Any ideas who we have to get in touch with to dispute this and how to go about it?

I recently parked in a car park which use to be free of charge for 12 minutes

a couple of weeks later I got a Smart Parking Charge Notice through my door.

I appealed one of the notices however didn't on all of them.

I have recently got a letter from Debt Recovery Plus Ltd saying I now owe £160 instead of the original £60.

I'm not sure if im allowed to link to another similar case on this website which shows how the signs were if im not please delete and I will upload the pictures myself.

I'm now unsure as to what I should do.

The signs were all very confusing with the keypad not even working at times.

I was just wondering if i had a leg to stand on or whether I should just pay the fines.

Thanks

(Just found out I need to get to 10 posts before I can link or add a photo. Once I am able to I will do so.)

Hello and welcome to CAG. I'm sorry this has happened to you.

Please could you follow this link to the forum stikky and copy and paste the questions together with your answers back on this thread? It will help the forum guys to advise you. Don't worry, they know what to do.

http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?462118-Have-you-received-a-Parking-Ticket

Best, HB

one thing

it IS NOT A FINE

look carefully..nowhere do they use that word.

they are speculative invoices

1 Date of the infringement 4th July 2017

2 Date on the NTK [this must have been received within 14 days from the 'offence' date] 11th July 2017

3 Date received 12th July 2017

4 Does the NTK mention schedule 4 of The Protections of Freedoms Act 2012? [y/n?] No

5 Is there any photographic evidence of the event? Yes

6 Have you appealed? {y/n?] post up you appeal]

Have you had a response? [Y/N?] post it up

No I haven't appealed this ticket as of yet however I know people who have appealed these tickets from the same car park have all had their response and the tickets have been upheld

7 Who is the parking company? Smart Parking

8. Where exactly [carpark name and town] Ravensdale Front Car Park, Clacton on Sea

date of infringement wrong?

dx

I don't believe the date of infringement is incorrect. I can upload the original parking notice if that's allowed

should it not be june re the DCA letter?

it is a letter from no-one.

DCA's have no interest of powers in any matter so you ignore them completely.

This advice is on every thread regarding parking, or debt so you shouldnt really need to be asking,

you should have known this because you have read hundreds of other threads and learnt something along the way, not just reading your own story.

so ignore it and do some homework on the industry as a whole and you will realise what levels they will sink to to earn a dishonest crust