yesterday I received attached letter and evidences related to PCN from DCBL. Not sure what this means do I need to reply back or take any other action? 2023-11-02 DCBL PAPLOC reply reply.pdf

On Monday I posed snotty letter to DCBL and MET and also sent email to ASDA CEO with attachment of receipts and bank transactions. Unfortunately I got below response from ASDA. Thank you for contacting Mr Issa, my name is Anjan, as part of the Executive Relations Team at Asda, I will be responding to you directly. I am sorry to learn that you received a Parking Charge Notification (PCN) in 2019, all of our stores have clear signs informing our customers of the conditions of the car park, failure to adhere to the conditions may result in a PCN. As the PCN is now 4 years old and the car park is monitored by an external company, MET Parking Services, Asda do not have any control over issuing or cancelling the PCN in question. I would advise you to contact the issuer, MET Parking Services who would be best suited to support you further. Apologies that I could not help further. Kind Regards Anjan Executive Relations Team

Hi @FTMDave please also see below rewritten snotty letter I am going to send this soon with 1st class recorded delivery. Please let me know any modifications I should make. Dear DCB Legal, Ref PCN Number: xxxxx VRN: xxxxx PCN Date: 05/12/2019 Issue Date (Posted): 06/01/2020 I write in response to your “LETTER OF CLAIM”, received in relation to PCN Number xxxx, issued by MET Parking Services for alleged parking breaches. I am writing to confirm that I have no intention of paying these ridiculous and made-up sums of money for allegedly breaking some imaginary contract with your client. You also scored a big own goal when you tried to sneak in £70 Unicorn Food Tax. Remember DDJ Harvey's judgement at Lewes on 5 February 2020 (claim number F0HM9E9Z)? Not very happy with these made-up amounts, was he? You can either drop this foolishness now or get a good hiding in court. Up to you. I quite fancy a well overdue holiday once all this is over and you’re financing it after an unreasonable costs order under CPR 27.14(2)(g) would do nicely, as would damages for breach of GDPR.

Hi @FTMDave please see below content to include in my letter to CEO and please modify as you think to make it more effective. Will it be ok to send this communication via email? I will also attach receipt of my recent shopping from ASDA. Dear MR xxx, I am a regular customer of ASDA and have been doing my weekend shopping from ASDA. ASDA is my most preferable supermarket and regularly visit South Ruislip ASDA for my weekend shopping. My purpose of writing this letter is about a PCN (Parking Charge Notice) issued to me by MET Parking Ltd. The notice was issued about 4 years ago to park in an electric bay this is something new to me and I have been getting letters from MET to pay for PCN for almost 4 years. Below are the details of the PCN. I am a regular genuine customer of ASDA and I appreciate if this ticket can be cancelled. PCN Number: Location: PCN Issue Date: Vehicle Reg Number: Issued By: Reason for Issue: Yours Sincerely, xxx

Today I have received "LETTER OF CLAIM" from dcblegal. Please see attached file and advice. Thankyou. letter of claim 20231011 - Copy.pdf

just for knowledge what is backdoor CCJ? does it apply in above scenario?

coming back to this post since there is a change in situation I now have sold the car to which this PCN is linked and just want to confirm that I do not need to inform about this to parking company. I have been ignoring their letters and nothing has happened.

@Dx yes I have read very bottom of the letter saying "this case is not subject to High court or bailiff action". However, I want to know just in case if legal action is taken will I need those Post Office tracking receipt of snotty letters? as I do not have those any more. I thought I will not receive any more communication on this so threw them away.

I now have received Notice of Debt Recovery letter from Direct Collection Bailiffs Ltd last Friday with regards to this PCN. saying I have unpaid parking charge of £170.00 and that I have 14 days from the date of the letter (3rd Jan 2023) to pay the outstanding amount or call them to discuss repayment. If I don't pay they will recommend the commencement of legal action against me. My question is the last set of communications were almost 2 years ago and I no longer have Post Office receipts as evidence to show that I replied to their communication (snotty letters), will that affect? what does discussion of repayment mean will they reduce the amount? and if yes is it worth going down that route?

can you please review below and advise of any changes? Ref PCN: **** VRN: **** PCN Date: 05/12/2019 Issue Date (Posted): 06/01/2020 I write in response to your so-called “Letter Before Claim”, received in relation to PCN Number xxxx, issued by MET Parking Services for alleged parking breaches. I am writing to confirm that I have no intention of paying these ridiculous and made-up sums of money for allegedly breaking some imaginary contract with your client. You also scored a big own goal when you tried to sneak in £70 Unicorn Food Tax. Remember DDJ Harvey's judgement at Lewes on 5 February 2020 (claim number F0HM9E9Z)? Not very happy with these made-up amounts, was he? You can either drop this foolishness now or get a good hiding in court. Up to you. I quite fancy a well overdue holiday once all this COVID stuff is over and you’re financing it after an unreasonable costs order under CPR 27.14(2)(g) would do nicely. Should your client wish to proceed with this farcical claim, I’ll be seeking recovery of costs on the basis of unreasonable behaviour, as well as damages for breach of the DPA 2018.

the charge amount is £170.

Actually the CST has sent me the form to fill in, please see attached. 2021-01-29 CST PAPLOC.pdf

I have received Letter Before Claim from CST Law Firm who has been instructed by MET Parking Services to commence legal action against me. since last one or two months I have started receiving letters again. Not sure if the gap between two letters is more than a month than case is still valid but looking forward to get some help. I suppose Letter Before Claim now officially requires me to respond or take some action?

@Will Goodfellow you didn't make any clarification on they not responding to my letter. I think if they respond means what I said can also be looked at as right argument. If they think person has lied then they also must respond to prove it. is that not the case?

@Will Goodfellow what do you define as a grace period? 10 minutes, 30 minutes or 1 hour? remember they haven't responded to my letter either. I don't think this is anything about lie. While they haven't followed POFA protocol does it matter if I mention about grace period?

same as posted on my another thread shall I go for the option of POPLA appeal in this case I think there is still time to do it in this case.

I read the below post today where the issue was related to Disabled Bay Parking and person used POPLA to appeal and won successfully. I wonder if I would have gone on the same route there was a chance for me too to get out of this successfully. The basis on which person won the appeal was because Notice to Keeper does not comply with Schedule 4 of the POFA 2012, this also applies in my case. Although in my case I had to first appeal to MET and then POPLA not sure it was applicable in below case where parking company involved was Euro Car Parks.

@ericsbrother - I looked at some of the past threads but those are either incomplete or still on going but for the one you mentioned above is there any chance for you to provide me link please? Many Thanks.

I have got few letters begging for money now I wonder shall I at least sent them letter acknowledging this and informing that I am not ready to pay or something? as sitting idle doesn't seem like a good idea.

received letter from DR+ again today but this time they mentioned that they have advised MET to now take court action against me to recover the amount outstanding. They also mentioned that to avoid the cost and inconvenience of court MET has proposed to extend the payment deadline for a further 14 days means I should pay the outstanding amount by 05/02/2020 or can set up three months instalment plan before this date. At this point the only question I have is when this goes to court are all the communications will be through letters or will there be scenario that I may have to go to court? the reason being It's hard to manage in busy life so it is important for me know this.

@dx Please see attached NTK. 2020-01-06 NTK re pcn 2019-12-02 Electric bay abuse .pdf

Today I received NTK from MET with mention of Parking Charge Amount £100 is Due. The date of the issue of the notice is mentioned as 6th Jan 2020 which surprises me as it took almost 7 days to arrive in post. It also mentions that 28 days from the date of the notice, if the amount is unpaid then they have right to recover that from me. @Ericsbrother, Please see attached single image showing where my car was parked and second set of images showing signage. Pixs .pdf

I received another letter from DRP (recovery agent) around 10th Jan 2020 with notice of intended court action again, if I don't pay £170 parking charge by 21st Jan 2020. Letter also mentions that if MET takes court action against me and if they win they may ask the court to order that I pay their court fees, solicitor's costs as well as parking charge.

@sparkeyrjp - I have children and all parents and child bays were occupied (unfortunately no body receives ticket on those bays) I searched for other empty spaces except disabled bays, only option was to park in electric charge point bays and there were plenty of those available if any body needed to use the electric charge point.

1 The date of infringement? ANS: 5th Dec 2019 2 Have you yet appealed to the parking company yet? [Y/N?] ANS: N have you received a Notice To Keeper? (NTK) [must be received by you between 29-56 days] ANS: N 5 Who is the parking company? ANS: MET Parking Services Limited 6. where exactly [Carpark name and town] did you park? ANS: (840) Arla Old Dairy, Ruislip, HA4 0FY ............................. For either option, does it say which appeals body they operate under. There are two official bodies, the BPA and the IAS. ANS: BPA.