UKPC Fine

[mitty]

Hi Guys,

 

I recently went to my Girlfriends flat and parked in her parking bay (number 89) without displaying a permit. The permit was in her car which was being serviced. Well i got a ticket slapped on there and was wondering if there was anything i could do about it.

 

My girlfriend's flat mate drafted a letter for me which is below....

To whom this may concern

 

I received a parking ticket in Bridge Court car park, Stanley Road, South Harrow, London, HA2 8FE on the 20th May 2009 at 18.33.

I took my friend shopping and he said it was ok to park his car in his spot 89 as we would only be 10 – 15mins and the permit was in his flat. When I received the ticket I contacted your customer services the next day, (21st May 2009), and they advised me to appeal and send a copy of the permit to validate my parking.

I have attached a copy of this permit for your record.

 

Please could you advise me on the next step.

 

i have photocopied the permit ready to send off to them. would this be enough?

 

thanks in advance

 

mitty

[dx100uk]

if it says PPC ignore it its a [problem]

if it says PCN then its a council issued one & others will be along to help

 

dx

[mitty]

if it says PPC ignore it its a [problem]

if it says PCN then its a council issued one & others will be along to help

 

dx

 

It is a PCN.

 

can this be contested or would it be easier to pay the fine?

[Bernie_the_Bolt]

I have to say I haven't come across councils issuing people permits for specific bays before.

[Al27]

Ignore Keith the moron above.

 

It is a PCN.

 

Is it

 

• a council Penalty Charge Notice

or

• a 'Parking Charge Notice' from a private company ie. a [problem], an unenforceable invoice, a trick?

[dx100uk]

Yes, you have to pay. Take it on the chin and display a permit next time.

 

troll alert........

 

dx

[electron99]

It is a PCN.

 

can this be contested or would it be easier to pay the fine?

 

What have you done wrong? Your girlfriend has a permit for the bay and gave you permission to park there.

What you have is not a fine, but an attempt by a private company to make easy money rather than earning an honest living.

 

Do not pay, and do not correspond with them, they will then move on to easier prey in the same way vultures and parasites do.

[Rooster-UK]

Keith....... Has LEFT the building!

[lamma]

PPC tickets are a [problem]. never write to them, never phone them.

[mitty]

This is the ticket i got on the windscreen

 

 

and then they sent a letter to my home address. i dont live there at the moment so my dad decided to ring me and tell me about the letter.

 

i sent them a letter yesterday with a picture of the permit as well as a photocopy of the permit.

[Al27]

ie. you're falling for the [problem] and trying to appeal.

 

Expect a template letter back going on about terms and conditions and how your 'appeal has been rejected.'

 

From now on do what you should have done from the start:

 

• do not pay

• do not contact them

• ignore the threatening junkmail you receive

• they will give up and go away

[mitty]

I'll wait to hear from them now. I usually pay parking tickets the next day to get it out the way but this one was annoying as I do actually have the permit.

 

Im scared

 

lol

[Al27]

[problem] relies on victims becoming scared and intimidated. Don't give in and really don't worry about it.

 

Blame the government - they sell our details to any unscrupulous company who asks for them, at £2.50 a time. Works out at £6 million a year for Brown.

[mitty]

Thanks Al. I'll get through this no doubt

 

I was pretty shocked when I read at the bottom of the ticket something along the lines of "we will be contacting the DVLA for your details."

[kche]

i received a ticket for parking in a disabled bay at my local tescos i found the man who issued me the ticket and tried to show him my blue badge which i have for my husband who is disabled and was with me. i was told tough luck its issued you will have to pay. the badge was on display but had slipped slightly when i probably slamed the door to hard causing it to move. 10 days later got letter from them with a photo of my car taken from about ten feet away. then five days later received letter from debtrecoveryplus treating me with intended litigation and county court proceedings if i did not pay within ten days . I phoned them spoke to a really rude unhelpful woman who spouted to me that i could in fact be fined £1000 for not having the badge on display in a disabled bay.

i started to give her my card details and then i thought what am i doing we have blue badge so have done nothing wrong. so im afraid when she asked me for my card number i told her to get lost in stronger words. and put the phone down i then worried about it so i tried to pay online but although when you go on debtrecoveryplus web site it says go to secure payment the browser will not allow it. which confirms to me they are a just a group of bullies thinking threating letters will make us pay. i will not be paying them i will be contacting tescos see if it gets me anywhere

[Surfer01]

i received a ticket for parking in a disabled bay at my local tescos i found the man who issued me the ticket and tried to show him my blue badge which i have for my husband who is disabled and was with me. i was told tough luck its issued you will have to pay. the badge was on display but had slipped slightly when i probably slamed the door to hard causing it to move. 10 days later got letter from them with a photo of my car taken from about ten feet away. then five days later received letter from debtrecoveryplus treating me with intended litigation and county court proceedings if i did not pay within ten days . I phoned them spoke to a really rude unhelpful woman who spouted to me that i could in fact be fined £1000 for not having the badge on display in a disabled bay.

i started to give her my card details and then i thought what am i doing we have blue badge so have done nothing wrong. so im afraid when she asked me for my card number i told her to get lost in stronger words. and put the phone down i then worried about it so i tried to pay online but although when you go on debtrecoveryplus web site it says go to secure payment the browser will not allow it. which confirms to me they are a just a group of bullies thinking threating letters will make us pay. i will not be paying them i will be contacting tescos see if it gets me anywhere

 

Do not under any circumstancers pay this [problem]. They tried this on my father even though he was at fault as he did not have a blue badge, but at park there because it was difficult to distiguish between the disabled and normal paking bays. I took advcie from thsi forumand eventually they went away.

It is an invocie inviting you to pay, nothing more and nothing less. Bin it and forget about it.

[Al27]

I phoned them spoke to a really rude unhelpful woman who spouted to me that i could in fact be fined £1000 for not having the badge on display in a disabled bay.

 

I call that fraud.

 

Your ticket is merely an unenforceable invoice. Private companies have no powers to issue fines. It's a [problem].

 

By the way, blue badges have no status on private land. Neither do the bays - they are mere graffiti from a legal perspective.

 

Anyway, you've had a lucky escape. Ignore the threatening junkmail you'll receive and they'll eventually go away. They won't take you to court.

 

What you can do though is write and express your disgust to Tesco.

[lamma]

I call it blackmail. lets agree that its both. Well done kche, you pulled back in time.