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Received a PCN from UKCPM - nothing on the window; just sent in the post to me as keeper.

 

In 2019 the management company of the estate roads sent residents a letter relaxing parking conditions and saying UKCPM had been instructed to focus on ticketing inconsiderate parking e.g. blocking drives, pavements, junctions etc. but otherwise ok to park on the roadway. This letter referred to residents complaining about excessive/unreasonable ticketing from UKCPM.

 

Letter goes onto say tickets are at UKCPM's discretion. UKCPM's pre-existing signage remained in place after the letter, saying no parking on roadways at all, at any time. Following the letter, the car was regularly parked for more than year in the roadway until it suddenly got a ticket. 

 

In addition, the PCN has an incorrect location, naming a nearby road as opposed to the actual road that the car was parked.

 

Please can someone advise if parking rules/guidelines in the estate management company's letter take precedence over UKCPM's signage and given the PCN was issued for simply parking on the roadway? - not blocking anything or violating the rules in the estate mgt co. letter. Also, if the incorrect location in the PCN is relevant to an appeal/defence?

 

I prefer to appeal now (UKCPM/IAS) as I dont want to wait many months for small claims case as i want to continue parking in the roadway and want to avoid the potential for hundreds of PCNs going to court, which could be risky. 

 

Happy to upload the letter and PCN redacted if useful. 

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Have you received a Parking Ticket? - Private Land Parking Enforcement - Consumer Action Group

 

do not appeal, total waste of time.

 

why not contact the Management co and get them to cancel the PCN...their/your contract trumps any private parking scammers speculative invoice.

 

dx

 

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For PCN's received through the post [ANPR camera capture]

(must be received within 14 days from the Incident)

 

Thanks for your responses so far. Here's requested info and attached PCN and Estate Mgt Co letter redacted...

 

1 Date of the infringement 10 May
 

 

2 Date on the NTK [this must have been received within 14 days from the 'offence' date] 11 May

 

3 Date received 13 May
 

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? Yes (very dark/almost unreadable on the PCN)

 

6 Have you appealed? [Y/N?] post up your appeal] Not yet
 

Have you had a response? [Y/N?] post it up N/A
 

7 Who is the parking company? UKCPM

 

8. Where exactly [carpark name and town] Private estate road in Gravesend, Kent (road named on PCN is incorrect as was actually in a nearby road)
 

For either option, does it say which appeals body they operate under. IAS

 

Letter redacted2.pdf PCN redacted2.pdf

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dx100uk - i called the management co but they just say they cant get involved, UKCPM make the decisions about what is a parking violation and i have to deal with them

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well you need to COMPLAIN to the man co.

 

they are NOT FINES 

and 

They are NOT PENALTY CHARGE NOTICES.

 

they are unenforceable speculative invoices.

 

for a management company those are VERY VERY poor mistakes to make in a formal letter. and they need to be legally corrected and a new notice issued to all residents.!!

 

dx

 

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can you put the photos back please just obscure reg number.

and where is the windscreen ticket please?

 

that NTK is is too early, should be 29-56 days for a non ANPR capture, you is NOT one. but operator pictures and a windscreen PCN must be issues 

 

so no windscreen PCN

NTK served too ealy.

permitted residential parking.

 

you lose UKCPM

 

 

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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

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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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dx100uk - many thanks...

-Photos attached pretty much the same quality as they are on the PCN.

One photo has the signage but its too poor quality in the PCN to read.

 

-No windscreen ticket. Warden simply goes around with his/her mobile phone camera. 

 

-Location street name on the PCN is incorrect (its redacted but its not the road the car was parked in)

 

-PCN is dated 1 day after capture and received by me 3 days after capture. Is this what you refer to as NTK?  

 

-Can you pls advise what part of the legislation says they have to have a windscreen PCN or ANPR.

Seems quite common that these companies do it by stealth. 

 

- I uploaded signage too in case its useful

 

 

Pics.pdf Signage.pdf

 

@lookinforinfo 

- the 'incident time'  is mentioned twice - both the same time - once in the box in the top right and once in the text.

 

Yes i redacted it as the date/time/area combined collectively identify the PCN. Not sure why the exact time matters? - suffice to say the warden got up before breakfast. 

 

The photos do have date/times in the top left - tbh they are too small, dark, blurry in the PCN to see.

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warden photos which means its not an ANPR capture

so the NTK is before 29-56 days

 

all as i said above.

 

 

 

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I am assuming that you own a flat or house, leasehold, on this estate and your lease entitles you to park as long as you park in accordance with the rules decided by the management company, and the management company are authorised to act for the lessor. That might need to checked out at some point but it's what the management company seems to be saying in their 2019 letter when they refer to ".. per the covenants of the Estate...". Is that correct?

 

The management company (on behalf of the lessor) commonly has the power in the lease covenants to impose parking rules (again, needs checking) in which case I would argue that their letter 4 November 2019 is a formal notification to residents of a change of the parking rules. If UKPCM's signage is different to what the Estate parking rules are that's UKPCM's problem. They have no authority to enforce anything other than the management company's rules as notified to residents. 

 

You can ignore the waffle in the letter about 'tickets will be issued at the parking warden's discretion'. That discretion is very limited and does not entitle the warden to invent new offences that are contrary to the management company's rules.

 

So in your opinon (you know the estate road layout, we don't) were you parked in compliance with the November 2019 letter, eg not blocking access?

 

I would write to managing agent asking them to intervene as UKPCM have issued you with a PCN in breach of the November 2019 letter. The management company can say 'nothing to do with us' as much as they like but ultimately they can't wash their hands of it. UKPCM are acting on behalf of the management comapny and the management comapny are accoutable for what UKPCM do. And the rules are decided by the management comapny not UKPCM.

 

As a matter of interest do you have a marked parking bay that's reserved for you? Were you parked in it?

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The managing agent's letter, as well as riddled with examples of ignorance of the law as pointed out by dx in post 6, is ridiculously vague and fence sitting.  "Parking restrictions are to be relaxed slightly" - so what is allowed now then?  "Tickets will be issued at the parking warden's discretion" - what for?  'Cos they don't like the colour of your car?

 

You need to write to the agent - not phone - and fight back.  How about something like -

 

"Dear xxxxx,

 

I refer to your letter to residents of 4 November 2019 and our phone conversation of xxxxx.

 

Your letter is full of legal inaccuracies.  The letters that UK Car Park Management Limited send out are not fines or penalty charge notices, they are invoices issued by a private company.

 

It is not good enough for you to try to wash your hands of the activities of this company.  You invited them to infest the estate, and you are legally responsible for their behaviour.  Your letter makes it quite clear that you instruct them.

 

I absolutely refuse to pay their PCN xxxxx.  My actions inconvenienced no-one.  UKCPM are well known for starting court action against motorists, which they inevitably lose.  Should a county court claim be issued against me, I will immediately add Chamonix Estates Limited as a Third Party under Practise Direction 19a.

 

This unpleasantness could be easily avoided if you simply faced up to your legal responsibilities and demanded that UKCPM cancel the invoice".

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That's regarding the managing agent.  Regarding the fleecers, ignore their tripe, and for goodness' sake don't appeal which would do far more harm than good.  dx has listed in posts 7 & 10 why their claim is pants and would be laughed out of court.

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27 minutes ago, FTMDave said:

This unpleasantness could be easily avoided if you simply faced up to your legal responsibilities and demanded that UKCPM cancel the invoice".

and issue the CORRECT guidance to all residents you wrote too dated xxxxxx stating these are FINES and PENALTY CHAGE NOTICES. they are NOT. 

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

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All - thanks for your detailed responses. Let me respond below.

 

It is a typical new build estate with freehold properties where the estate roads and common spaces are managed by an estate management company instead of the council. We have to pay them an annual fee for park keeping, road cleaning etc. In the covenants the 'rent charge' holder (currently the builder) can appoint a management company to manage the estate including parking regulations but the precise rules are not in the covenants.

 

The estate has marked bays and some folk have driveways but nowhere near enough space hence people park on road too, which led to the letter in 2019 as many complained. This is because people's visitors had literally nowhere to park if they followed CPM's signage - even on Xmas Day lol.  I was parked opposite my own driveway, not in a marked bay but not 'blocking' the driveway - i can easily in get in and out with my large SUV even with my other car parked opposite and HGV delivery vehicles and refuse trucks regularly go past unimpeded - so i believed i was parked in accordance with the estate mgt co. letter and I have been leaving it there 24x7 for more than 1 year.

 

I will write to the estate management co. as advised but perhaps with a little more diplomatic language :)

 

In respect of appealing to CPM and IAS, i see your comments and i realize the possibility of being successful is tiny. However, wouldn't a court later look favorably if i can show that i have tried all avenues to resolve the matter and that not responding is looked at unfavorably? And why is it a disadvantage especially if i dont give away all of my defence points?

 

I also read your comments on POFA2012 in respect of times on the PCN and early issuance of NTK and that windscreen PCN is required (unless ANPR). I will look further at the legislation to see if i can find the supporting language. 

 

Thanks again and i will add more as things develop.   

 

One general question - if the keeper names a driver in response to the NTK and the named 'driver' then denies back to the parking company that he/she is the driver, then the parking company cannot prove he/she is actually the driver so what would happen next?

 

I want to edit a post above as i was not the actual driver on this occasion, so when i say that 'i' was parked it means the car registered to me was parked, but not by me. But i dont see an edit button?

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do not appeal, makes no odds in court IF IF IF it ever went there, whatsoever.

 

 

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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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Thanks for the clear info. about how the estate and parking is organised.

 

3 hours ago, Yuliawati said:

I will write to the estate management co. as advised but perhaps with a little more diplomatic language :)

Considering most letters drafted here are a load of abuse directed at the private parking companies, I thought the language was very restrained!  There's not an insult in there 🤣  More seriously, all the legal points in the letter are correct and I think it's good to go.  The agency "should" act and get the ticket withdrawn, but on the other hand they might well not have a clue about the law and refuse to cooperate, even if that would be worse for both you and them.  Still, it's only a stamp and nothing ventured ...

 

3 hours ago, Yuliawati said:

In respect of appealing to CPM and IAS, i see your comments and i realize the possibility of being successful is tiny. However, wouldn't a court later look favorably if i can show that i have tried all avenues to resolve the matter and that not responding is looked at unfavorably? And why is it a disadvantage especially if i dont give away all of my defence points?

Do you know the history of the industry?  Once upon a time there was only one trade association, the BPA, with a half-decent appeals body POPLA, which often found in favour of the motorist.  This situation was unbearable for the more crooked of the PPCs like UKCPM who trotted off to a new rival association where the IPC association, its appeals body the IAS, and the firm of solicitors who most usually take on these cases ... are all run by the same people!  No conflict of interest there!  The IAS twist everything to always find in favour of the PPC.  The best analogy I can think of is the Mafia.  The Mafia no doubt have their own internal logic about oaths, what amount of protection money it is reasonable to demand, what you can to someone who cooperates with the police - none of which has any connection to the law of the country.  That's how the IAS operate.  Motorists who appeal just encourage the PPC by showing respect for their crooked "procedures", and are at risk of throwing their legal protection under the POFA away by outing themselves as the driver.

 

If you look in our PPC Successes thread at the top of the page (starting from the most recent cases), concentrating on cases that went to court, you'll see that in their Witness Statements the fleecers do indeed often say the motorist "should" have appealed.  I can't remember one case where the judge was the slightest bit interested in that argument.

 

3 hours ago, Yuliawati said:

I also read your comments on POFA2012 in respect of times on the PCN and early issuance of NTK and that windscreen PCN is required (unless ANPR). I will look further at the legislation to see if i can find the supporting language.

It'll be somewhere in the POFA, Schedule 4.

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3 hours ago, Yuliawati said:

One general question - if the keeper names a driver in response to the NTK and the named 'driver' then denies back to the parking company that he/she is the driver, then the parking company cannot prove he/she is actually the driver so what would happen next?

I can't remember a case like this, but I would imagine the fleecers would pursue the keeper once again.  The closest we've had is when a keeper has, totally honestly, identified the driver as someone who lives in the EU, which the fleecers have ignored and gone after the keeper (even though there is no legal basis to do so).

 

3 hours ago, Yuliawati said:

I want to edit a post above as i was not the actual driver on this occasion, so when i say that 'i' was parked it means the car registered to me was parked, but not by me. But i dont see an edit button?

If you tell the Site Team what you want doing, we can help.  However, you're not using your real name, all the documents are redacted, so I don't see the problem.  But up to you.

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