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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. 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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
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    • 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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Hi all on CAG,

 

Sorry about the header, while it is not majority but it is still over 40% of the total!

 

I am new to this forum and have been doing some reading for the past 2 days.

 

I have been contacted by Property Debt Collection Limited (PDC) for 2 years worth of Property service charges on 2 accounts which amounted to around £3900!

(a quarter of it was not owed by us but by the previous owner).

 

However the total was taken to £6300 due to various charges

(which means about £2400 or the charge is about 70% of the original debt was just extra charge!)

 

Here are some of them listed out:

 

Debt Referral Fee - £120 x 3 (it was charged twice on one of the account)

court fees - £120 x 1, £95 x 1

Admin Fee - Late Payment: £30 x 2

PDC Fee- £150 x 2

Costs- £655.80 x 2

Solicitor Fee - £80 x 2

 

I am concerned the most about the "Costs" part (that's all they put on the statement) which amounts to £1310!

 

My question is:

are these charges legal or enforceable (from my reading so far, it seems no to most)?

Any advice on what to do next as they are pressing for payment and threaten to get court judgement?

 

Any help/recommendation is appreciated.

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you cant have court fees without it going to court

what is PDC fee?

 

dx

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DCA's view debtors as suckers, marks and mugs

NO DCA has ANY legal powers whatsoever on ANY debt no matter what it's Type

and they

are NOT and can NEVER  be BAILIFFS. even if a debt has been to court..

If everyone stopped blindly paying DCA's Tomorrow, their industry would collapse overnight... 

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ah sri PDC is a dca probably.

get those back too.

 

have you checked your cra file to see if any ccjs are registered against you?

 

see below

 

dx

please don't hit Quote...just type we know what we said earlier..

DCA's view debtors as suckers, marks and mugs

NO DCA has ANY legal powers whatsoever on ANY debt no matter what it's Type

and they

are NOT and can NEVER  be BAILIFFS. even if a debt has been to court..

If everyone stopped blindly paying DCA's Tomorrow, their industry would collapse overnight... 

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Hi du100uk,

 

thanks for the reply, that's why I found these charges quite puzzling... Checked my Experian credit report, it says nothing about CCJ and my rating was as before. PDC said they have send the claim form to the court but have not taken any further action yet to request a judgement. May be that's what the "court fee" comes from? Is it possible to just send the paper and not actually file a claim?

 

P.S I also have no idea what "PDC Fee" means. I have asked them to clarify and provide invoices/proof of the actual cost. Along with all the other fees/cost they added.

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very dodgy me thinks

 

PDC are a DCA that specialise in property management debts

they are NOT BAIIFFS

and thy have NO SUCH LEGAL POWERS.

 

unles they OWN the debt

then they have no rights to add anything

nor

take or PRETEND to take you to court or even ISSUE a claim form.

 

looking at the net about the company

they pull this stunt a lot & often get people done over

by making £1000's out of them.

 

got to say 90% of what im reading is spoof/fake upon what they can do and charge

 

this smells

 

I hope ALL your comms is in WRITING not on the phone?

 

so what have they actually said about this supposed claim form?

 

dx

please don't hit Quote...just type we know what we said earlier..

DCA's view debtors as suckers, marks and mugs

NO DCA has ANY legal powers whatsoever on ANY debt no matter what it's Type

and they

are NOT and can NEVER  be BAILIFFS. even if a debt has been to court..

If everyone stopped blindly paying DCA's Tomorrow, their industry would collapse overnight... 

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Yes so far pretty much all the communication are done via email. I will be picking up my mail tonight from the rented out flat to see if there is actually a claim form.

 

At the moment, I am looking to make an offer for paying off part of the service charge that I duly owed (about £3000). But nothing else ( including outstanding service charge of the previous owner) unless they can provide proof/invoices. If I make an offer and they reject it, can I revise it or they can make a counter offer?

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NEVER EVER pay a DCA

 

deal with the property people directly.

 

and I would NOT be offering to pay anything other

than what YOU owe!!

 

no charges, no-one elses past service charges either.

 

it would be interesting to see these emails then.

 

but PLEASE make SURE you remove ALL personal details that could ID you or them.

please don't hit Quote...just type we know what we said earlier..

DCA's view debtors as suckers, marks and mugs

NO DCA has ANY legal powers whatsoever on ANY debt no matter what it's Type

and they

are NOT and can NEVER  be BAILIFFS. even if a debt has been to court..

If everyone stopped blindly paying DCA's Tomorrow, their industry would collapse overnight... 

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I have tried to talk to the management company but they want nothing to do with this

and keep referring us to the DCA.

 

If I pay the management company directly, do I just pay it into the account and ask them if they accept it?

 

I would really like to find out if the DCA have actually brought the debt so now they own it?

 

If I ask the DCA do they have to tell us?

 

Here is an email they replied to me..

 

. Very vague (just ASAP) when asking for an action deadline + when questioning them regarding the detailed breakdown of the 2x £655.80 "Cost"

e.g. what was involved, how many man hours and material cost etc . Then they just asking us to pay.

 

Dear Mr XXXXX,

 

Thank you for your email.

 

As stated below, our Solicitors have now issued claim forms in regards to both sets of arrears.

The cost of preparing and issuing Claim forms is £655.80 on each file,

these are costs relating to the time spent and preparation of the Claim against you.

 

You can make payment via Credit/Debit card where there will be a fee of £2.35 for debit card

or 2.85% for Credit card or we can accept payment via BAC’s or Cheque.

 

Please advise how you are looking to make payment?

 

As the files have been sent to Court payment is required ASAP

to avoid further action including our Solicitors requesting Judgment against you.

 

Kind Regards,

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bowlarks!

 

they cant claim legal fees UNTIL the claim form arrives on your doorstep

 

I bet this is just a bluff.

 

dx

please don't hit Quote...just type we know what we said earlier..

DCA's view debtors as suckers, marks and mugs

NO DCA has ANY legal powers whatsoever on ANY debt no matter what it's Type

and they

are NOT and can NEVER  be BAILIFFS. even if a debt has been to court..

If everyone stopped blindly paying DCA's Tomorrow, their industry would collapse overnight... 

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If they bought the debt you should have received a notice of assignment to the DRC!

 

if not the debt is still owned by the service co.

 

You can send them a SAR and enclose PO for £10 they then must disclose everything to you within 40 days.

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Calculate what you owe (not previous owner-that is not your debt) and pay that directly to the landlord. The landlord can then pay their agent.

Ignore the debt collectors, they are rentamouths and have no rights in this or any other matter. the management company are being very stupid over this as they will have to deal with you in the future and shouldnt want the matter referred to higher authorities.

Now, for your part why are you owing money from more than a year ago? Was it a disputed charge at the time or have you just not paid it on time? If the latter then you had better organise yourself properly to ensure that this event isnt repeated in the future.

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