Good afternoon, Thank you for the advice you posted before, I'm sorry this took a while. I haven't had an easy opportunity to get to Exeter and check the carpark signage. However, from the posts you guys put up before this isn't at a point where I need to take action soon anyway. I've attached a PDF of the pics I took - I can't get the site to accept a jpg no matter how small I make it. The sign poking out of a hedge is at the entrance to the car park that I used, but is mirrored at the other entrance as well. The other three pics were all takes standing right in front of the meter. I had a somewhat different letter through at the end of last week from a solicitor, but reading through they aren't saying anything the previous letters haven't also said. The only thing I can see in it that's of any note is that it's a single letter asking for one sum of money rather than two. I've blanked the bits that matter and attached it in case it's got any useful info. Kind regards, J Gladstones Letter.pdf Pics.pdf

Good afternoon. I've had quite a number of letters now from "Smart Parking", who are trying to get me to pay two notices for my vehicle in Exeter back in May. I've attached pics of the front and back of both, although as far as I can see the backs are identical. I've seen the thread with questions to answer, so here goes: They are Parking charges, not Penalty charges, and they were received through the post. 1 Date of the infringement - 27.05.17 2 Date on the NTK [this must have been received within 14 days from the 'offence' date] - 02.06.17 3 Date received - I'm not certain, but I think it was the 3rd or 4th June 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? - Cameras in the car park, shown on the ticket. 6 Have you appealed? {y/n?] post up you appeal] - No 7 Who is the parking company? - Smart Parking 8. Where exactly [carpark name and town] - Havens Bank Retail Park, Exeter For either option, does it say which appeals body they operate under. - POPLA For each notice I've had the notice itself dated the 2nd June '17, then all other correspondence has been from Debt Recovery Plus Ltd with letters demanding £160 per notice on 07.07.17, 07.08.17, 30.08.17, 07.09.17 and a "Letter before referral for legal action" on 25.09.17 I did call the companies involved (which I now realise may have been in error) on 05.09.17, first Debt Recovery Plus with whom I had a very simple conversation: I said "two notices for the same hour of time is ridiculous" and they said " talk to Smart Parking" so I did. They offered to drop each charge to £90 if I paid there and then, I told them to drop one altogether and they said no, so I said I was going to appeal. I haven't done anything since. I'm aware that I was in the car park at that time, I think it probably slipped my mind to check the rules listed as I'm not used to paying to park on a Sunday. The rules for the car park are that you get your money back if you make purchases in the retail park, and I can prove that I did on both visits but I doubt that makes much difference. The kicker for me is that the start of the first visit and the end of the second one are within an hour of each other, so if I'd bought an hour's parking (the smallest amount you can pay for at this location) they'd have still sent me a notice for not paying twice. I did see that the notices don't mention any time period for appeals, so in theory by the rules they've notified me of I can appeal now. I've also noticed that the charge started at £40, then went to £90 and then £100. All of this is explained on the original notice but there's no indication anywhere on the paperwork I've got saying how or when it reached £160 (although I'm guessing that they're adding more for sending it via another company, but not telling me). I'd be grateful for any advice you can give on this one. James Notice 1 back.pdf Notice 2 back.pdf Notice 2 front.pdf Notice 1 front.pdf