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    • Hi, we are looking to get some opinions on weather or not to bother fighting this PCN. This comes from a very big retail park parking where there are restaurants, hotel, amongst other businesses. The parking is free but I suppose there must be a time limit on it that I am not aware of. We were in the area for around 4 hours. Makes us wonder how they deal with people staying in the hotel as the ANPR is on what appears to be a publicly maintained street (where london buses run) which leads to the different parking areas including the hotel.  1 Date of the infringement 26/05/2024 2 Date on the NTK  31/05/2024 3 Date received 07/06/2024 4 Does the NTK mention schedule 4 of The Protections of Freedoms Act 2012? [Y/N?]  YES 5 Is there any photographic evidence of the event? Entry and exit photos however, based on the photographs we are almost sure the photos are taken on public street. This is the location I believe photos are taken from.  https://maps.app.goo.gl/eii8zSmFFhVZDRpbA 6 Have you appealed? [Y/N?] post up your appeal] No Have you had a response? [Y/N?] post it up N/A 7 Who is the parking company? UKPA. UK Parking Administration LTD 8. Where exactly [carpark name and town] The Colonnades, Croydon, CR0 4RQ For either option, does it say which appeals body they operate under. British Parking Association (BPA) Thanks in advance for any assistance.  UKPA PCN The Collonades-redacted.pdf
    • Thank you for posting their WS. If we start with the actual WS made by the director one would have doubts that they had even read PoFA let alone understood it. Point 10  we only have the word of the director that the contract has been extended. I should have had the corroboration of the Client. Point 12 The Judge HHJ Simkiss was not the usual Judge on motoring cases and his decisions on the necessity of contracts did not align with PoFA. In Schedule 4 [1[ it is quite clearly spelt out- “relevant contract” means a contract (including a contract arising only when the vehicle was parked on the relevant land) between the driver and a person who is—(a)the owner or occupier of the land; or (b authorised, under or  by virtue of arrangements made by the owner or occupier of the land, to enter into a contract with the driver requiring the payment of parking charges in respect of the parking of the vehicle on the land; And the laughable piece of paper from the land owners cannot be described as a contract. I respectfully ask that the case be dismissed as there is no contract. WE do not even know what the parking regulations are which is really basic. It is respectfully asked that without a valid contract the case cannot continue. One would imagine that were there a valid contract it would have been produced.  So the contract that Bank has with the motorist must come from the landowner. Bank on their own cannot impose their own contract. How could a director of a parking company sign a Statement of Truth which included Point 11. Point 14. There is no offer of a contract at the entrance to the car park. Doubtful if it is even an offer to treat. The entrance sign sign does not comply with the IPC Code of Conduct nor is there any indication that ANPR cameras are in force. A major fault and breach of GDPR. Despite the lack of being offered a contract at the entrance [and how anyone could see what was offered by way of a contract in the car park is impossible owing to none of the signs in the WS being at all legible] payment was made for the car to park. A young person in the car made the payment. But before they did that, they helped an elderly lady to make her payment as she was having difficulty. After arranging payment for the lady the young lad made his payment right behind. Unfortunately he entered the old lady's number again rather than paying .for the car he was in. This can be confirmed by looking at the Allow List print out on page 25. The defendant's car arrived at 12.49 and at 12.51 and 12.52  there are two payments for the same vrm. This was also remarked on by the IPC adjudicator when the PCN was appealed.  So it is quite disgraceful that Bank have continued to pursue the Defendant knowing that it was a question of  entering the wrong vrm.  Point 21 The Defendant is not obliged to name the driver, they are only invited to do so under S9[2][e]. Also it is unreasonable to assume that the keeper is the driver. The Courts do not do that for good reason. The keeper in this case does not have a driving licence. Point 22. The Defendant DID make a further appeal which though it was also turned down their reply was very telling and should have led to the charge being dropped were the company not greedy and willing to pursue the Defendant regardless of the evidence they had in their own hands. Point 23 [111] it's a bit rich asking the Defendant to act justly and at proportionate cost while acting completely unjustly themselves and then adding an unlawful 70% on to the invoice. This  is despite PoFA S4[5] (5)The maximum sum which may be recovered from the keeper by virtue of the right conferred by this paragraph is the amount specified in the notice to keeper under paragraph 9[2][d].  Point 23 [1v] the Director can deny all he wants but the PCN does not comply with PoFA. S9 [2][a] states  (2)The notice must— (a)specify the vehicle, the relevant land on which it was parked and the period of parking to which the notice relates; The PCN only quotes the ANPR arrival and departure times which obviously includes a fair amount of driving between the two cameras. Plus the driver and passengers are a mixture of disabled and aged persons who require more time than just a young fit single driver to exit the car and later re enter. So the ANPR times cannot be the same as the required parking period as stipulated in the ACT. Moreover in S9[2][f]  (ii)the creditor does not know both the name of the driver and a current address for service for the driver, the creditor will (if all the applicable conditions under this Schedule are met) have the right to recover from the keeper so much of that amount as remains unpaid; You will note that in the PCN the words in parentheses are not included but at the start of Section 9 the word "must" is included. As there are two faults in the PCN it follows that Bank cannot pursue the keeper . And as the driver does not have a driving licence their case must fail on that alone. And that is not even taking into consideration that the payment was made. Point 23 [v] your company is wrong a payment was made. very difficult to prove a cash payment two weeks later when the PCN arrives. However the evidence was in your print out for anyone to see had they actually done due diligence prior to writing to the DVLA. Indeed as the Defendant had paid there was no reasonable cause to have applied for the keeper details. Point 24 the Defendant did not breach the contract. The PCN claimed the Defendant failed to make a payment when they had made a payment.   I haven't finished yet but that is something to start with
    • You don't appeal to anyone. You haven't' received a demand from a statutory body like the council, the police or the courts. It's just a dodgy cowboy company trying it on. You simply don't pay.  In the vast majority of these cases the company deforest the Amazon with threats about how they are going to divert a drone from Ukraine and make it land on your home - but in the end they do nothing.
    • honestly you sound like you work the claimant yes affixed dont appeal to anyone no cant be “argued either way”  
    • Because of the tsunami of cases we are having for this scam site, over the weekend I had a look at MET cases we have here stretching back to June 2014.  Yes, ten years. MET have not once had the guts to put a case in front of a judge. In about 5% of cases they have issued court papers in the hope that the motorist will be terrified of going to court and will give in.  However, when the motorist defended, it was MET who bottled it.  Every time.
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Went to sign in today. went through all the normal talk and then she told me that from today, when i sign on every two weeks i will be given a new time each and every time i go to sign on, she then told me that this is to keep you on your toes, :x

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I blame the black economy, we all know that every single person that signs on is working cash in hand, I would insist on a morning/afternoon slot so I could earn a half day at least, most inconsiderate of JCP if you ask me:lol:

 

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I have done nothing wrong, she told me that it is something new that is starting and it applies to everyone,

It was supposed to be humour. I know it's not funny.

 

So if it applies to everyone it's not a personal thing. We'll see if anybody else is experiencing the same.

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How are they going to work that is it applies to everyone.

Their computer system will go into melt down

 

It's no different to what they do now if you think about it, everyone has different signing on times anyway they are just changing the usually static individual ones from say Thursday at 10:30 to random at random.

 

The next time the Op goes to sign on they will flourish a large hat and invite the OP to select a folded piece of paper containing the next signing on 'opportunity' think of it as the Lotto with no prize attached.

 

Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges

 

Being poor is like being a Pelican. No matter where you look, all you see is a large bill.

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It might also mean there will now be more cases of people missing appointments or being late - more chance to sanction people.

 

I'd imagine this new scheme (if done wholesale) would make more work for the DWP. At present it's a 'regular', repetitive system; they know who is signing on any one day and it never changes - now they'll have to sort out the daily signings on an ever-changing basis. Increased scope for error on their part - I can imagine someone turning up correctly to be told 'we have no record of giving you that day and time to sign'. I'd advise everyone to get their signing time/date in writing and signed by the advisor.

 

Seems illogical to me..but since when did logic ever prevail in the DWP? Do they really think it will cut down on the 'cash in hand' brigade? Bless them for being so naive!

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Well went back to sign on again today and asked about the new way to sign on, the evil bitch told me it was because this way you would get to see the same advisor each time. oh just great i thought i get to see the evil one each time. i then asked if all job centres are doing this she then said it is up to each job centre on what system they use.

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Crazy! The rules shouldn't change according to individual jobcentres - they're all part of the DWP so should all be run in an identical way(whether good or bad). It's not so bad seeing the same advisor every week, as long as they're decent (luckily mine is). At least then you know who to blame if any errors happen on your claim; if you see a different advisor all the time they'll shift the blame onto someone else. Rule 1 of the JC advisors - 'Never admit your mistake'.

 

I hope they keep my signing-on time as it's very early in the morning. I always moan at having to get up and travel at that time but at least I'm done by 9:45 and the rest of the day is mine. Better than being dragged in at 3:30 and having to battle the workers going home on the bus.

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Each JCP is able to set their own signing times it's down to lots of varying factors.

It can be based on staffing allocation, varying duties that members of staff that are required to do daily, it could be new claims taken in the morning and then signing in the afternoons for example.

Also some JCP offices can have a strict 5 minute appointment system for signing or time bands where you could be asked to attend in a 10 minute to 1 hour time bracket.

Sometimes when the client load increases it can be necessary to change things around to ensure that staffing levels are correct to accommodate the number of people expected in to sign to try to reduce queues and in turn frustrations of people who have had to wait about for a while.

It could also be a way of trying to reduce people being able to work cash in hand during office hours.

The only thing set by guidance is the signing day set by the last 3 numbers of the National Insurance number. Adviser appointments can be booked for any day or time.

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The only thing set by guidance is the signing day set by the last 3 numbers of the National Insurance number.

 

I've been unemployed before and wondered why they always picked Thursday to sign...now I know! Thanks Flumps :)

 

(This must be a very long-standing rule as when I had a spell of unemployment in the 70's I signed on a Thursday too. Saturday (the best day) was giro day.)

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Went back in today to sign on and saw a new advisor, I then said i thought this new system that was in place was because you saw the same advisor each time, he then told me that they have got a few teething problems with it but they hope to get it to work soon, think i have heard that before somewhere,

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This is what is happening in the Job Centre I am at. Managed to change my time slot as I wanted an early morning one, which was accepted, only because someone else wanted a later time slot. Still pleased nonetheless. What they need to work on is meeting their schedule. I have signed on twice at the new time as I only recently started to claim again and I have had to wait for 25 - 30 minutes on both occasions.

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