I'm looking for some advice on what my options may be (if any!) in the following situation.... I am a tenant of Peabody Housing Association and I have an allocated parking space on my estate. I pay rent for this space direct to Peabody by direct debit. Peabody have contracted MET Parking services to administer the parking controls on my estate and residents apply to MET for our parking permits. In June I received a Parking Charge Notice from MET Parking for £60 for parking without having a valid permit (my permit had expired). I appealed against the charge using their online appeal form on 25 June (1 day after the ticket was issued). Unfortunately for me, I then forgot all about the ticket, and I received no correspondence from MET Parking at all. Then yesterday (13 Nov) I received a letter from Debt Recovery Plus demanding £150 for the unpaid parking charge, saying that MET Parking had referred the matter to them as the original charge had not been paid. I have phoned both DRP and MET, both of whom have been extremely unhelpful. MET claim that 3 letters were sent to me, telling me that my appeal was unsuccessful and the charge needed to be paid; however I have not received any of them. Apparently I am now unable to pay the initial £60 charge as the deadline has passed, and I also missed out on the opportunity to appeal to POPLA as this information was also in the missing letters and that deadline has also passed. I don't generally have a problem with my post so I feel it's extremely unlikely that 3 letters have been lost in transit, but MET say that they can prove they've been posted. DRP say that I have 10 days to pay the £150 or they will take me to court. They did offer me a 20% reduction but that's still £120 which I really feel I should not have to pay. At this point I would be willing to pay the £60 even though I think it is excessive - I was still paying for using the parking space even when my permit had expired, so there was no loss of revenue to Peabody (unfortunately I've only just learnt of gpeol (via this website) so didn't use that in my original appeal!). My real concern is that they actually will take me to court and I'll be faced with a bigger bill to pay, but I also really don't want to pay £150 when I haven't received the information that I should have done which would have allowed me to pay the original charge or appeal again. I don't know what my best course of action is. It seems like all the relevant deadlines for appeal have passed, so am I able to appeal to anyone, and if so who? Any advice gratefully received.

Advice needed please: On Friday 25.04.2014 I went to Downham Leisure Centre to use the gym facilities there. I arrived around 19:20 pm. This community based Leisure Centre is also " home" to a GP Practice with the operating hours of 08:00am to 18:30 pm Mon, Tue, Wed and Fri. On Thursday the practice is open 08:00am-20:00pm. The Leisure Centre car park is run by a private company. There are about 5 to 6 allocated parking spaces for Doctors only. Now bare in mind it was Friday evening, the GP practice was closed. When I arrived at the gym there was one parking spot in the allocated parking space as mentioned above. As my common practice for all the years I have been attending that gym ( about 5 years) I would parked in one of these spots once the GP Practice is closed on weekends or bank holidays. This I have been doing for years. I was very surprised when I left the gym and found a parking ticket on my car for parking in the doctors allocated parking spots. My argument against what I term as an unfair issue of this PCN is as follows. 1.the GP surgery was closed 2.the GP surgery does not provide a call out, on call or emergency after hours service, therefore Doctors do not come in to see patients after closing. 3.It is a community based facility and I see no reason why when the GP Practice is closed that parking spaces allocated to Doctors cannot be used by the users of the facility. 4.The parking spaces are there and not in use after the GP practice has closed. Do I have reasonable grounds to fight this PCN based on the grounds listed above. I believe there are no valid or justified reasons as to why the parking spaces cannot be used when the GP Practice closed. Please can I get your response or advice with regards to this matter. I have already sent my appeal online to the organisation who issued this PCN.

Hi All, received a £50 (will double after 14 days) pcn from MET parking services for over staying in a McDonalds car park by 29 minutes, cctv snaped my reg going in & coming out (no image of driver), as I was waiting for the Mrs to come out of work I know this is probably correct, my question is this, Can this outfit enforce this ticket lawfully ? Should I just ignore them ? Is there anything I should request from them ie; what right have they got to pcn me ? Proof of there right from the landowner to pcn me ? etc etc... They state, "you are notified under paragraph 9(2)(b) of schedule 4 of the protection of freedoms act 2012 to pay this charge in full or name the driver if not you" blah blah blah.... In a nut shell.... any advice on this gratefully appreciated (in plan english please) lol Thanks for taking the time.