Hi, This is what I've sent. Following on from your earlier communications re: a parking charge you claim is due as a result of my car being parked at a location in Leeds on 13th October 2013, as referenced above. I can confirm with a witness there was no notice attached to the car, and as such you should have contacted me within 14 days as per the provisions within the Protection of Freedoms Act and the BPA guidlines. As you have failed to comply with those provisions, you should cease to make any further attempts to contact me. To do so could leave me no alternative but to lay a complaint of harassment as both a criminal act and civil tort against you. I will be complaining to the BPA, DVLA and my MP about the breaches of the PoFA protocols and BPA Guidelines, and your dishonest acquisition of my details from the DVLA. Thanks for your help. JH

Hi ericsbrother, ok as you can see from the ParkingPicDoc2 above, they appear to have an image of a ticket over my tax disc. There wasn't a ticket there when we returned to the car, and both me and my son would be prepared to swear to this in court. I have never said who the driver was to them, I thought it was a potential attempt to get money falsely (it won't accept the word I've tried to use!) initially when I got the first letter. Would this suffice as a letter to them? Thanks for your help, JH. "Dear Sir/Madam, Re: Parking Charge Reference - Following on from your communications re: a parking charge you claim is due as a result of my car being parked at a location in Leeds on 13th October 2013, as referenced above. I can confirm with a witness there was no notice attached to the car, and as such you should have contacted me within 14 days as per the provisions within the Protection of Freedoms Act. As you have failed to comply with those provisions, you should cease to make any further attempts to contact me. To do so will leave me no alternative but to lay a complaint of harassment as both a criminal act and civil tort against you. I will be complaining to the BPA, DVLA and my MP about the breaches of the PoFA protocols and your dishonest acquisition of my details from the DVLA. Sincerely,"

Sorry about the document, I missed that. It has now been edited. f16, there wasn't a ticket on the car. The first I knew of an issue about parking was when the letters started arriving at my home address. The first letter was dated 15/11/2013 stating the driver was required to pay, although you can see it says notice to keeper / driver/ hirer, so not sure what it should have been saying. The second, dated 16/12/2013 is simply headed Notification! It mentions 28 days from when the Parking Charge Notice was issued, but there wasn't one (assuming they mean the ticket that was supposed to have been attached to the car!) The 3rd letter, dated 03/01/2014 appears to be a demand for payment. The only other correspondance was the letter above about being out of time to appeal. That was dated as shown. I've tried to attach the first letters again, hopefully easier to see than the first attempt. I've added the 2 sets of photo's they sent with the latest letter which seems to show some sort of document on the car, although as said above, it wasn't there when we returned to the car. Thanks, JH [ATTACH]49173[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]49174[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]49175[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]49177[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]49176[/ATTACH]

[ATTACH]49170[/ATTACH] This is the letter I got. there were also some photo's of my car in situ, and one showing the tax disc and part of what is I suppose a parking notice envelope with documents inside. This wasn't on the car when the driver returned to the car. Thanks, JH PS Sorry about the formatting of the attached document.

Hi, I've had a reply and they have declined my appeal, saying it outside the 28 days limit. I'll post copies later today if I can of the information. They haven't included a POPLA reference as I can see. Do I now advise them of who the driver was? Thanks JH

This is what I have replied with. Dear Sir/Madam, RE: ****** I am writing in regard to the above reference and to appeal against a parking charge you claim is due for a vehicle mark ******* at the time and date 15:12, 13/10/2013 on land at Beckett St Florence Nightinggale LS97JC and sent to me as the registered keeper of the vehicle. Your correspondence claims there was no entitlement to be there, yet a parking ticket was purchased and displayed in the car. I have already notified your company of this fact, and while they initially claimed there wasn’t, the telephone operative I spoke to proceeded to read the information to me contained on the ticket without my first having given any details. You are obviously aware there was a ticket in the car for the time and date the car was parked. I would also like to add there was no PCN notice attached to the car to notify the driver of any supposed infraction of parking rules at the time. Your correspondence says the charge you are claiming is displayed on the land, yet this was not obvious. The signage simply stated it was a pay and display car park, and a ticket was purchased and displayed using the machines closest to where the car was parked. Nothing indicated there should be a separate machine used for different areas of the parking areas. If you are unwilling to accept there was a ticket on display and there is a failure in the signage to be clear and concise, and wish to continue to pursue this matter, please provide me with the POPLA reference in the first instance as I intend to defend this matter fully. Further, please provide a full breakdown of your charges. I do not believe the information provided to date represents a genuine pre-estimate of loss. Many thanks, NAME I'll post any follow up replies I get. Hopefully this is ok. JH.

Hi, a ticket was purchased and displayed in the car. The issue appears to be that the ticket was for the council controlled carpark and this is now, apparently, a private carpark for the second visit. This isn't a case of not trying to pay, but that it wasn't clear a different machine should have been used. Is there anything I can do now or am I stuck with having to pay this? Do I have to name the driver as mentioned above, as having read through some of the other pages here it often says not to? Thanks, JH.

On the first day we used the carpark on the left and on the second day the middle area. Neither of us thought there were different machines to be used for the different areas, as the signs didn't make it clear. The same machine was used for both visits. I'll see if he can get photo's for me. Thanks, JH.

Any advice on what I should write back as they say I have to pay £125 immediately or they will start court proceedings? Or do I just have to pay? Thanks, JH.

The only payment machine in the carpark produced tickets showing Leeds City Council on them. JH.

How do I get larger versions uploaded, as they appear fine on my computer until I upload them? JH.

The date they are claiming the charge for is the 13th October. Thanks for your reply, JH.

Hi, a friend I work with advised me to get in touch over some letters I've received from UKCPS for a supposed parking charge they say I owe, and I hope someone can help me. I went to Leeds to visit my son & daughter-in-law in October 2013 when they were due to become parents. While visiting the hospital the car was parked in a nearby carpark on two successive days, and on each day a ticket was bought and displayed in the car. I still have the ticket as they were left in the cup holder in the car, and show it was paid to Leeds City Council for the day and time the car was there. I didn't think anymore about it until I received some letters from UKCPS, the first dated 15th November, 2013, telling me the car "was observed Without a valid permit or authority and the driver of the vehicle is required tp pay a parking charge which was fixed to the vehicle in respect of the parking of the vehicle on land at BECKETT ST FLORENCE NIGHTINGGALE LS97JC and by so parking he/she agreed to pay the charge of £100 under the terms of a relevant contract displayed on the said land." In another box it says "the reduced charge of £60 has not been paid and the amount due is" (in a seperate box) "£100.00". Is this a real charge? There wasn't any ticket on the car about a parking charge, and as I said above, a ticket was paid and displayed in the car. When I called to query this, I was passed to someone described as a manager who told me there are two carparks side by side, and he claimed the wrong one had been used. There was nothing that I recall saying there were two seperate carparks, and only one ticket machine was obvious, which is the one used to purchase the ticket each day. I got another letter dated 16th December 2013 and a further letter dated 3rd January 2014. The latest letter says I now owe £125! I've hopefully attached the letters I received and would be grateful if someone could advise me what I should do now. Thanks in advance, JH.