Ethics parking management and DRP

[michaela242]

Hi,

 

I received a parking ticket on the 3rd March 2015,

 

I was parked in our designated flats bay behind another car, whilst moving in to the new flat.

 

I received a ticket having parked there for 10 mins whilst unloading the car.

The car park is private, behind gates and is free.

I had not wanted to park in another persons bay so parked behind my boyfriends car to not cause obstruction or inconvinence to others.

 

The ticket I received was for £100 - for a private, free car park!?

 

I appealed this ticket and explained we had been moving in.

 

The response from Ethics parking management was I should have contacted the company and informed them I had been unloading.

 

It is now to late to continue an appeal via POPLAR and I have no had a letter from Debt Recovery Plus titled Demand for payment for £160.

 

The letter also states the wrong postcode and location of where I was parked, if I were in this location I would have been parked in roadway.

 

Does anybody have any advise as to whether I should pay this?

 

I have read other forums and many have been reduced.

 

Could this scenario be used as excessive payments as it is a free car park

 

. I currently haven't admitted liability.

 

I am getting quite concerned if the letters were to continue but £160 is a huge amount of money.

 

Any pointers would be much appreciated

 

Thanks

[honeybee13]

Hello and welcome to CAG.

 

I doubt very much that you will need to pay this, but please bear with us until the guys in the know get here and they will tell you.

 

In any case, DRP are pretty powerless, I wouldn't worry about them at this time.

 

My best, HB

[silverfox1961]

Hi and welcome to CAG.

 

Do not pay this speculative invoice. It is not a fine as such and if they want to enforce, they must take court action.

 

What date was on the appeal rejection letter?

[Bazooka Boo]

I appealed this ticket and explained we had been moving in. The response from Ethics parking management was I should have contacted the company and informed them I had been unloading. It is now to late to continue an appeal via POPLAR

Who told you it is now too late to appeal to POPLA?

Not that it matters, you won't be paying anything anyway.

 

The contract UNethical parking has is with the Landlord of the property, NOT with individual tenants.

 

As for Debt Recovery Plus, there is absolutely NOTHING they can do, keep all of their empty threat missives

DO NOT pay anyone anything, and most certainly you don't need to entertain a powerless DCA, remember they

are NOT bailiffs nor will they ever be, you can very safely ignore them.

 

Was the ticket on the windscreen (a notice to driver NTD) or was it a letter through the post (notice to keeper NTK)?

 

When did you receive the speculative invoice?

 

Apologies SF posts crossed..

[silverfox1961]

You say Ethics Parking management. Is it not Ethical Parking Management? (I suspect it is)

 

My first question would have to be, "What is so ethical about your company?" Trying to mislead with dodgy invoices ain't ethical!

 

Can you go take photographs of the signage and dig out the tenancy agreement to see what it says about parking.

[ericsbrother]

As they have passed it on to DR+ they arent in any hurry to do anything to try and enforce the supposed debt so you can ingore the latest missive. IF you get another letter from Ethical you should respond to that by telling them that as it was your own parking space you right to use it as you wish overrides their contract and as such no contract can be formed between yourself and them by way of their silly signs or pieces of paper.

[Homer67]

Just to reiterate - do not engage with Debt Recovery Plus at all, do not contact them and if they contact you on the phone refuse to do any 'security' questions and tell them everything in writing only. If they turn up at your door tell them to leave, do not talk tho them beyond that. They are powerless and can do nothing, the only words you need to say to them are: Any alleged debt to your company is denied refer to your client.