Hi Yes searchlight security that operate at Lamorna also operate at the lizard and I have heard of the same hard tactics there too, well it has been just over a month since I got my ticket and I have not heard from them, I want to ! ha ha I want to know that it has cost them more than the parking ticket that I paid for the 1 hour that I didnt stay there to get my details from the DVLA as this costs them £2.50. I wont ever pay a single penny to a private parking company if I consider that I have not done anything wrong, Dont reply to them if they send you a ticket from the Lizard, just do as I have done and make an honest review of the place on Google Places, this will come up on the first page when someone googles the place. I too spent a small fortune on parking in my week in Cornwall, I am so tempted next time never to pay to park in a private park because of this and just ignore every ticket that I get! ha ha. Im just kidding, I have no problem paying to park I just wont be bullied in to paying a 40 quid fine because my tyre was over the white line, they can take me to court...as if ha ha good luck on claiming your £1.50 worth of damages Dont pay them no matter what letters they send you, Ignore Ignore Laugh and Ignore.

Yes Ignore I have spent hours and hours on here and other forums and the general consensus is that make no contact with them whatsoever even if you receive official looking solicitors letters, these are normally from the same company, different desk if you like. The private parking tickets are simply invoices, they have to prove who was driving the vehicle and you are not obliged to tell them anything as they are private individuals. The best they could do is to try to take you to civil court and apply for damages and if found against you then you would be liable to pay them damages? a few pounds for the value of a genuine ticket? you can see why these pretty much never get to court. A few years back it seemed the advice was to send a template letter at least but this has since been superseded because if you do reply the PPC knows they have an active person there they can go after, by simply ignoring the letters they have to do far more work to get to their pot and generally and very much sadly other folks fold and send the money to them after the first threatening letter it seems, don't fold and don't pay, its about time we stood up for ourselves in this country, this simply wouldn't happen across Europe as they would laugh in the face of a private person pursuing them for such a trivial amount. Good luck with the case, I am waiting for one as well, I will never pay one as long as I live thanks to this forum, I paid the ticket and got a notice for parking with my wheels over the white line? if you think its unjust as I did just ignore it.

Yes I have posted what I found on various travel websites including google places which is one that shows up in Google maps, Google Places pretty much let you air your opinion without moderation (maybe until the owner complains), in this instance the owner also runs the PPC, I cant post links at the moment as I havent made enough posts but I found the clip on the watchdog website with the cove in it and then another interview on a Cornish Travel website where they quiz the owner over it and he makes out they are strict with parking rules because they need funds to repair the Quay wall? I do think it would be a better policy if this is their main concern to maybe encourage visitors to make a donation explaining the situation rather than this approach, The Company is called Searchlight Security, they are already in breach of the BPA guidelines on many fronts including not using a real address on the tickets (they use a PO box number) the attendant was also in a normal car not one with signs on it, again against the conditions laid down by the BPA, there wasnt adequate sinage around the car park indicating their appointment, the lines defining the parking bays were hardly visible and worn and nowhere did they mention you had to park in the bay anyway. I can understand the land owners getting shirty with folks parking on their property and not paying but I think this is poor that they are clobbering folks who have paid, the more of us that use these forums and Google Places the more we can all inform and warn others but mainly inform them that if you get a ticket from a PPC and consider it to be unfair then just dont pay it and ignore the invoices as others have done on here.

Yes thanks lefty will do, they wont scare me, I sadly was the victim of ID theft last year and had all sorts to deal with as you can imagine so this will be quite amusing by comparison, I should start another thread as to how my ID was stolen as that was so easily done, quire literally as simple as someone posting my birthday in the local paper with my date of birth I know this Lamorna cove is pretty infamous for this now but didnt at the time and was sad to see on the day tickets plastered to visitors from other countries who had done no wrong either? no more than me anyway. I will keep you all abreast of the situation here, I am expecting similar letters that others have had on here but I will stick to my guns and do nothing no matter what they send me, if they send me anything I am not happy about i.e fake court summons etc then I will go to the CAB and report the company.

I recently visited Lamorna cove in Cornwall and got an £80 parking ticket for parking slightly out of bay? this could not have been helped as it was the last space I could see and the person next to me was parked out of bay slightly. The parking attendant just saw it as a black and white offence and said I could appeal? I had paid the parking ticket and was only going to be there for an hour anyway, he still didnt budge. I was going to pay the fine as I didnt want it messing up my holiday as it was the usual £40 if I pay within 14 days, until I found this forum I am taking the advice and am going to ignore all correspondence from them, well I will read it but not respond. Just a warning to others if you go there make sure you park in the bays and make sure you have the right change for the machine as they will pounce if you dont. Thanks again to others who have made stickies and posted about the best way to deal with this, you have for sure saved me 40 pounds. I understand the needs of land owners to regulate parking on their property but this was harsh as I had paid the ticket and nobody could have parked in the space in between me and the other car anyway even If I had parked tightly in the bay.