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    • Thank you for posting up the results from the sar. The PCN is not compliant with the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 Schedule 4. Under Section 9 [2][a] they are supposed to specify the parking time. the photographs show your car in motion both entering and leaving the car park thus not parking. If you have to do a Witness Statement later should they finally take you to Court you will have to continue to state that even though you stayed there for several hours in a small car park and the difference between the ANPR times and the actual parking period may only be a matter of a few minutes  nevertheless the CEL have failed to comply with the Act by failing to specify the parking period. However it looks as if your appeal revealed you were the driver the deficient PCN will not help you as the driver. I suspect that it may have been an appeal from the pub that meant that CEL offered you partly a way out  by allowing you to claim you had made an error in registering your vehicle reg. number . This enabled them to reduce the charge to £20 despite them acknowledging that you hadn't registered at all. We have not seen the signs in the car park yet so we do not what is said on them and all the signs say the same thing. It would be unusual for a pub to have  a Permit Holders Only sign which may discourage casual motorists from stopping there. But if that is the sign then as it prohibits any one who doesn't have a permit, then it cannot form a contract with motorists though it may depend on how the signs are worded.
    • Defence and Counterclaim Claim number XXX Claimant Civil Enforcement Limited Defendant XXXXXXXXXXXXX   How much of the claim do you dispute? I dispute the full amount claimed as shown on the claim form.   Do you dispute this claim because you have already paid it? No, for other reasons.   Defence 1. The Defendant is the recorded keeper of XXXXXXX  2. It is denied that the Defendant entered into a contract with the Claimant. 3. As held by the Upper Tax Tribunal in Vehicle Control Services Limited v HMRC [2012] UKUT 129 (TCC), any contract requires offer and acceptance. The Claimant was simply contracted by the landowner to provide car-park management services and is not capable of entering into a contract with the Defendant on its own account, as the car park is owned by and the terms of entry set by the landowner. Accordingly, it is denied that the Claimant has authority to bring this claim. 4. In any case it is denied that the Defendant broke the terms of a contract with the Claimant. 5. The Claimant is attempting double recovery by adding an additional sum not included in the original offer. 6. In a further abuse of the legal process the Claimant is claiming £50 legal representative's costs, even though they have no legal representative. 7. The Particulars of Claim is denied in its entirety. It is denied that the Claimant is entitled to the relief claimed or any relief at all. Signed I am the Defendant - I believe that the facts stated in this form are true XXXXXXXXXXX 01/05/2024   Defendant's date of birth XXXXXXXXXX   Address to which notices about this claim can be sent to you  
    • pop up on the bulk court website detailed on the claimform. [if it is not working return after the w/end or the next day if week time] . When you select ‘Register’, you will be taken to a screen titled ‘Sign in using Government Gateway’.  Choose ‘Create sign in details’ to register for the first time.  You will be asked to provide your name, email address, set a password and a memorable recovery word. You will be emailed your Government Gateway 12-digit User ID.  You should make a note of your memorable word, or password as these are not included in the email.<<**IMPORTANT**  then log in to the bulk court Website .  select respond to a claim and select the start AOS box. .  then using the details required from the claimform . defend all leave jurisdiction unticked  you DO NOT file a defence at this time [BUT you MUST file a defence regardless by day 33 ] click thru to the end confirm and exit the website .get a CPR 31:14 request running to the solicitors https://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?486334-CPR-31.14-Request-to-use-on-receipt-of-a-PPC-(-Private-Land-Parking-Court-Claim type your name ONLY no need to sign anything .you DO NOT await the return of paperwork. you MUST file a defence regardless by day 33 from the date on the claimform.
    • well post it here as a text in a the msg reply half of it is blanked out. dx  
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I attend a hospital regularly (every 1-2 months) for medical checkups in relation to my diabetes. The hospital charges via PnD machines for the Car parking. I have never once failed to pay the Pay and Display Charges in countless visits.

 

However, after having a bit of a nightmare morning and running very late I rushed out today for my appointments and parked up only to realise I had no money on me at all and no way of paying. I live 30 minutes from the hospital so didn't feel it was wiorthwhile going to get my wallet from home as it would waste the hospitals time massively and i may have my appointments cancelled as was already late :(

 

I returned to my car to find a very official looking ticket in a sealed yellow and black checkered outlined plastic wrapping. Similar to that style you'd expect if it had come from the police. It is from a company called Central Ticketing Limited in Birmingham.

 

Not wishing to be melodramatic but I'm living from day to day money wise at the moment and just about making sure the mortgage is paid so I physically cannot afford to pay the £35 let alont the £65 if not paid within 14 days nor the £105 if not paid within 7 days of the £65 falling due.

 

By appealing (they say that it will take up to 28 days on the ticket) surely they'll just not only reject my appeal being the same company that is demanding my money but then immediately demand the £105 and take me to court.

 

My anger at this is not that I simply don't think people should pay for parking (although paying for hospital parking is another damned matter imho) it's that I have been penalised for what seems an exhorbitant amount of money compared to the £1.80 parking fee it should have been for the time i was there and that if not paid within a very short amount of time it escalates alarmingly especially when I have paid repeatedly for every single other visit and this was a one off.

 

Can anyone offer any advice as to what I should do as I'm scared not to pay them but I simply have no means to pay them either. I just about afford to pay the bills and get to work. as it is.

 

There are multiple small car parks at the hospital and there was a large sign situated outside of the disabled spots ((separate car park area) I haven't been back to read the sign but I'm guessing it covers everythign such as park here and we own your vehicle, your soul and first born) but where I parked simply said Visitor Car Park Pay and Display with no conditions on it although the grey back of the larger sign can be seen from where I parked.

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Hi I am not an expert in this (they will be along later) but this is a [problem] they at most have a civil contract with you for by your parking there. They can only claim damages they have lost with you not paying IE £1.80. I would ignore this as entering into any communication will only make them more aggressive. You will get 4 or 5 letters each more threatening than the last then they will go away.

 

 

I had a problem taking my B in law to hospital for treatment (cars parked on double yellow).

I could not get my car to the drop off point for his entrance so had to park in car park go and get a wheel chair and then push him into hospital for treatment (no easy task he weights 18 stone) When I asked security about these cars I was told not public property the police would not be able to do anything. So I believe the whole thing a [problem].

 

 

 

 

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Don't worry!

 

• do not pay

• do not contact them

ignore their letters, no matter how threatening

• they will give up and go away after 4 or 5

• they will not take you to court

 

As you didn't pay the £1 or whatever, that's all they're entitled to. Private companies cannot 'fine' you - they can only recoup their actual losses ie. the cost of a P&D ticket.

 

By all means send them a pound coin, but there's no point as they'll just keep on pestering you about the £105. The whole thing is a [problem], so just ignore them completely.

 

 

By appealing (they say that it will take up to 28 days on the ticket) surely they'll just not only reject my appeal being the same company that is demanding my money but then immediately demand the £105 and take me to court.

 

That's correct, apart from the court bit. No chance of that (of course they'll want you to think that they will)

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You will receive many suggestions of help from the excellent advisors on this site, and you are, of course, free to make up your own mind.

 

Either way, you are in a very powerful position, 'cos you haven't done anything wrong - well, avoiding paying in the first place is a bit naughty, but you didn't wilfully set out to do that, did you?

 

I would ignore their requests if it were me, but if you feel that you want to square it with them, by giving them what they are entitled to, then why not write back to them stating that:-

 

You will accept only ONE further letter from them; you are happy to EITHER pay them what they are LEGALLY entitled to, [£1.00 or £1.50 etc], or you are willing to attend court and let the court decide.

 

So, either £1.00, or court papers - they decide!

 

Make it clear that no other correspondence from them will be entertained.

 

Bet that pound to a pinch of Chinese excretement, that you don't go to court!!

 

That's my two pennorth

 

Sam the Eagle

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Cheers guys, sort of puts me a little more at ease, was panicking royally about this.

 

The ticket says that repeat offenders will be clamped and will be liable to "higher penalty charges". Whilst I have no intention of ever repeating the incident I assume that they cannot clamp me for simply ignoring this one and returning in future to the same site but paying?

 

I only ask as I'll be back at the hospital soon and i depend on my car daily. It would cost me my livelihood to lose access to it.

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The ticket says that repeat offenders will be clamped and will be liable to "higher penalty charges". Whilst I have no intention of ever repeating the incident I assume that they cannot clamp me for simply ignoring this one and returning in future to the same site but paying?

 

My understanding about clamping (which I admit isn't great) is that clamping can only take place to remedy a current contravention, not any previous act in dispute.

 

For your peace of mind also, I would draw your attention to their use of the phrase "higher PENALTY charges". No private company can charge an individual a penalty so from that you can rest asured they are going no where near a court with their paperwork.

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Thank you crem and again thanks to everyone else. I think I'm going to ignore the company and see what happens. It not like I can pay them anyways unless they suddenly were going to accept the £1.80 an from what I've read on these forums there's little chance of receving a reasonable response from the company in question :(

 

cheers guys

 

I'll sleep a lot easier now :)

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The ticket says that repeat offenders will be clamped and will be liable to "higher penalty charges

 

First one would be illegal and the second would just mean receiving a worthless piece of paper.

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Would strongly suggest you don't contact them, and certainly don't offer them the "due" parking fee.

 

In order to write to you, they will have to get your details from DVLA. But DVLA only hold the deatils of the Registered Keeper - they have no way at all of knowing who was using the car.

 

If CTL had any claim at all it would be against whoever was driving, not the person registered with DVLA. For instance, I may have borrowed your car today - my own insurance covers me and I had to get to hospital in a hurry so you helped me out ;)

 

If you send them anything before they've contacted you as the keeper, and certainly if you offer them any sort of payment, then they might try to use that as evidence that you were driving. If I had borrowed your car, it's hardly likely that you'd accept the keys and a parking ticket back from me, is it?

:!:Nothing I post should be taken as legal advice. It is offered as an opinion only.:!:

 

This warning is in my signature because I'm not organised enough to remember to type

it in every post.

 

And you're considering trusting me????:eek:

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  • 10 months later...

I went shopping to Tesco in Ludlow on 07/11 and paid 50p to park in their car park. It was 11.49 and I did my shopping in Tesco and some other shops. I returned at 13.53 to find the dreaded yellow attachment to my car. My ticket had been placed on the dash but the high winds that day must have flipped it over via the air vent for the windscreen. The 'ticket' stated the reason as 'No Ticket' and was timed at 13.51. While examining this 'parking fine' the 'warden' approached and when I showed him the ticket which he had stated I didn't have, he informed me that it had expired by 2 minutes and I was 'fined' £70 but if I paid within two weeks it would be reduced to £40! As the amount seemed punitive and his attitude very tentative, I smelled a rat and luckily have found this website and all your comments - thank you. I am extremely disappointed with Tesco for employing these b.......ds and am seriously considering never using them again. As for their 'fine' they can stick this 'ticket' where the sun doesn't shine. By the way, my copy of the 'Adminstration of Justice Act 1970' doesn't seem to make any references to anything they can do to me, but is quite heavy on what they cannot do to harrass me into paying-up!!

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Hi I received a ticket from Central Ticketing at Tescos in Stoke on Trent as I assumed the car park was free on a sunday, most of the car park is except for about 30 spaces as I now know. my stupidity i know.

 

Legally do they have a leg to stand on if i refuse to pay as I begrudge paying a company £40 when i was actually in tesco for 10 minutes just before they shut on a sunday afternoon.

 

Any advice is appreciated

 

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Hi all, Just an update on my story above. I duly received a letter from Central Parking dated 10/12/09 stating 'Reason for Issue: No Ticket' and 'Time of Issue: 1:51pm' - remember I did have a ticket which expired at 1:49. It stated that the charge may now increase to £135 plus admin costs. I then received a letter from Roxburghe DCA dated 21/01/10 stating that £167 is now due. Lastly, a letter from Graham White, Solicitors, threatening County Court action with total additional costs of £207.25. Should I carry on ignoring this stuff or should I now seek legal advice? Thanks Taffchap.

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Lastly, a letter from Graham White, Solicitors, threatening County Court action with total additional costs of £207.25. Should I carry on ignoring this stuff or should I now seek legal advice?
The key word here is 'threatening', the only time you'll need further legal advice is when they actually issue a claim, which has a 0.00001% of ever happening. Continue to ignore.
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Just a quick update as this company seems to be causing other people issues.

 

I received a good 4-5 letters from various entities telling me that they had kindly doubled the "fine" each time to cover their legal costs and admin costs etc and that I would soon be in court with the judge no doubt awarding them all the fines and some extra costs.

 

Happily after completely ignoring every single one they haven't been in touch since and I havent heard from them in many months now.

 

Treat the scumbags with the contempt they deserve and simply ignore their BS attempts to extort money from you.

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  • 3 weeks later...

I've just received my letter from Graham White solicitors demanding £207.25 and threatening what will happen. I still haven't replied and have no intention of doing so.

 

I had the debt collection letter around 4 weeks ago.

 

Hopefully they should get bored with me soon

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  • 1 month later...

Just to finish off this story, I wrote to Sir Terry Leahy, the Chief Executive of Tesco, and had a nice personal reply saying the action had been stopped and he added an apology. He didn't say anything about their use of Central Ticketing though! :)

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have just read all the comments relating to central ticketing......my daughter was parked up in a disabled bay y.day and had her clock set correctly, the clock was set at 12.30pm which meant she had until 3.30pm to return to her car, the ticket was issued at 1.13pm stating reason 0022, to which i dont know what this is, the fine is for £100.. but if paid within 14 days it goes down to £65.00, i have looked on their website on their is nothing on there so say what their codes are, my daughter is only 19yrs old and is absolutly gutted over this ticket as she does not have that kind of money.....:mad:

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