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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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Hi all,

 

I'm a newbie so please go easy on me!

 

Today I received a "Parking" Charge Notice from One Parking Solution Limited at my office car park.

 

What should I do pay or appeal?

 

My gut instinct is to appeal because my permit was in the car (in the driver's door pocket). I normally put in the windscreen each day, but today was my first day back in the office after 1.5 weeks and I forgot (stupid I know).

Please help...

 

Answers to the questions below

 

WINDSCREEN (Notice To Driver)

 

1 The date of infringement?

30/01/2019

 

2 Have you yet appealed to the parking company yet? [Y/N?]

No

 

Have you received a Notice To Keeper? (NTK) [must be received by you between 29-56 days]

No, not yet

 

What date is on it?

Did the NTK provide photographic evidence?

[scan up BOTHSIDES as ONE PDF- follow the upload guide]

N/A

 

3 Did the NTK mention Schedule 4 of the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 (PoFA) [Y/N?]

N/A

 

4 If you appealed after receiving the NTK,

did the parking company give you any information regarding the further appeals process?

[it is well known that parking companies will reject any appeal whatever the circumstances]

N/A

 

5 Who is the parking company?

N/A

 

 

6. where exactly [Carpark name and town] did you park?

My Office car park in [Westside Hemel Hempstead]

 

Also attached are a copy of the parking charge notice (redacted) and I will a photo of the sign in the next post (size limitations).

 

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Here is the parking sign, most of it is in really small font!

 

Also, when I go to the appeals section of their website they have taken 12 photos of my car angles all around.

360 degrees from front windscreen to rear windscreen, sides and front again. Then a front of car photo with the sign in the distance.

OPS_-_Parking_Sign_-_30012020.pdf

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  • dx100uk changed the title to OPS windscreen PCN - No permit in office car park

had to remove you pcn you left ref no showing.

 

get the photos from the website too.

 

dx

 

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PCN with ref removed nowww

OPS_-_Parking_Charge_Notice_-_30012020.pdf

 

Photos from website attached now too.

 

I want to add, I have a car park plan and email which highlights which spaces I can park in based on the company I work for. The space that I am is included in this and you can see my colleagues' cars either side of me (reg numbers hidden).

 

 

Some additional information which probably makes no difference, but I will be taking my private reg off the car, this weekend which was on the car at the time in question and putting the original reg back on.

 

I will be selling the car next weekend and leaving the country mid-Feb due to a job relocation (planned for a while now).

But I will be coming back in a few years so do not want any trouble waiting for me when I get back!

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 who owns the land?

how does your employer make the arrangements for the use of the spaces it has with the landowner?

 

Chances are that OPC doesnt have the right to enforce anything in the spaces allocated to your employer so the first port of call is them and get them to tell OPC to get lost.

 

What does your employment contract say about parking(if anything).

Normally there will be something on the intranet about this and so it becomes  a term .

 

As this is a screen ticket the parking co have to wait 28 days before they can do anything.

The cherished reg will still be yours so the DVLA will have those details even if the car is a mismatch.

The parking co will ask who was the keeper on such a date and that is what they have to go on, not who owns the car at some point in the future As for problems stored up, you will have arranged some method of redirecting your post surely?

 

I also note that they show no close up of the front screen, the only view that would support their claim of no permit displayed. Many parking cowboys select an angle to show a lack of ticket on purpose knowing that it is tucked down and can only be seen close up. They do this to chisel money out of people when none is due.

 

Also they know that a permit has been issued to a car with your reg so it is a dishonest claim if they do process this further

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A landlord owns the land and the building that the company I work for leases.

It is the landlord that has instructed OPS to enforce these parking terms this year.

The company I work for has about 480 spaces out of a possible 600.

They are allocated. 

 

My employer will not tell get them to get lost unfortunately and there is no mention of parking in my contract.

 

Thanks EB.

 

Yes, they have been lazy because the car park has ANPR barrier access and my reg is registered for my company in order for me to gain automated access to the car park. I have a permit allocated to me with a unique number and the space I was in is allocated to my employer. If they checked this information they would know I am entitled to park there.

 

Yes and the lack of closeup photos does look suspicious.

Should I appeal to them directly on these grounds?

They ask for driver or keeper details which is better to provide without making their lives easier?

 

Yes I will access to my post for at least the next 6 months.

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Have you asked your employer to tell OPS to leave its staff alone or are yu just guessing?

I am not suggesting that your employer tells their landlord what to do but OPS arent their landlord and they ahve an agreement that trumps the contract with OPS in most circumstances.

 

f you rent a flat the landlord cant tell you who may visit you, there is an entitlement of quiet enjoyment and your employer has that entitlement not to be bothered by a third party that has no interest in their lease of a business premises. Hence they ahve the power to tell OPC to get lost and keep their nosesout of their affairs.

 

Now if your relationship with your employer is so bad you cant ask them to get this cancelled then you should consider what else they they offer and do that makes them a less than good employer.

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My relationship with my employer is pretty actually, they are the reason I am relocating.

I just think we have enough trouble with landlord and they want to stay on good terms with them.

 

I just want to fight with OPS and give them a hard time instead of simply handing over my £60/£100.

Ideally with a loophole / technicality...

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technicality?

your employer hasn't given them permission to enforce on the spaces they have leased and you have a permit so they know you are authorised by your employer to be there even if you dont display it.

 

If they cant be bothered to check the list they have they deserve to lose a court claim.

 

Your problem is you want this fixed in under a month and only your employer has the power to tell OPC to get lost but you wont ask them. it is not about loopholes as you will win a court claim,

it is about not having to go there in the first place and using all the resources necessary to get this over and done with.

 

we can be here in a year and help you with your court pappers but wouldnt you rather just knock it on the head now?

 

If you approach the parking co they are going to reject your appeal because the only way they make money on someone else's land is to issue spurious charges and hope people pay up.

 

They are not going to admit to you they dont have a leg to stand on so forget about decency, fairness ect, they dont have it

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I appreciate your comments on this.

 

I asked my employer and they said others have asked them to get involved.

But if they do it for one, they will have to do it for many others too and it could become a minefield and time consuming (we all have jobs to do).

So that is not an option.

 

If it goes to a court claim I am happy to take it there, with the help of this forum course.

Should I win I will donate the amount of the fine to this forum (a much more worthy cause than OPS).

 

In the interest of moving this forward, what is the next step?

Go through their pointless appeal process?

What do I say and do I say I am the keeper or driver?

 

Keeper I presume...

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FINE , where does any paperwork use that word?

 

no you don't appeal ever to the PPC

but don't ever ignore a letter of claim from a solicitor whom states their client is the PPC, should you ever get one.

 

sounds like you need to be educating your employer about contract law and speculative invoices 

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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Ok, so I need to be careful of my wording.

 

What do I do now, just sit and wait for them to send me letters?

 

Can I go straight to the BPA or POPLA?

I don't imagine this will go away by itself.

 

About 20 people got tickets in the first week of January 2020 when this was introduced, I don't know them personally though. 

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bpa and popla are merely old boys clubs run by the PPC's themselves 

 

already said above what you need to do, and eb has pointed out very pertinent things regarding these tickets and the way these operator conduct themselves.

 

the best thing you can do is read a few 100 pcn threads in this very same forum as you started yours in...so you can educate your work colleagues and all get together and hit your employer hard to run these cowboys out of their car park.

 

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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