Horizon Parking PCNs on Rental Car - Gallagher Retail Park, Bradford Thornbury - Suggestions?

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This is how hirers should be dealt with by the rogues when they discover that their prey is in a rental car.

1] they write back to the rental company asking for the name and address of the hirer: the agreement with the hirer and and the signature of the hirer's statement of liability.

2] once they receive all that the rogues then send you a new PCN called a Notice to Hirer, along with a copy of the original PCN plus copies of your agreement with the hire company plus the statement of liability.

If all they sent you was a that piece of tat  they call a Notice to hirer  then you can relax as there is no way that they could ever win in Court.

You have to wonder at the mental ability of these companies. The protection of Freedoms Act 2012 is quite clear on dealing with hirers and Horizon have had 11 years practicing to get it right. And they have failed by a country mile.

In order to be able to lawfully demand money from you all they have to do is abide by the Law. Under PoFA they have to get the wording right to be able to pursue the hirer. So what does Horizon do? They are told by the hire company that the car is on hire to you and giving them your details. Horizon then send out a Notice to Hirer [so they know the car was hired} yet they  still ask if you were the hire company and if so send details of the hirer to them!

The PCN is not compliant also because they have given you 28 days to pay the charge rather than the 21 days which is the time required by PoFA.

Those details on their own mean that the hirer is not liable to pay them a penny.

On top of that if they have also failed to send you a copy of the original PCN , a copy of the hire agreement and your consent to be liable for debts arising during your hiring, then once again you are not required to pay them.

Here is the relevant legislation Schedule 4 Section 14 [1]

14(1)If—

(a)the creditor is by virtue of paragraph 13(2) unable to exercise the right to recover from the keeper any unpaid parking charges mentioned in the notice to keeper, and

(b)the conditions mentioned in sub-paragraph (2) below are met,

the creditor may recover those charges (so far as they remain unpaid) from the hirer.

So the keeper has complied with 14.1 so is no longer liable as the charge has been transferred to the hirer. However

14.2 states  "

(2)The conditions are that—

(a)the creditor has within the relevant period given the hirer a notice in accordance with sub-paragraph (5) (a “notice to hirer”), together with a copy of the documents mentioned in paragraph 13(2) and the notice to keeper;

(b)a period of 21 days beginning with the day on which the notice to hirer was given has elapsed; 

You are not liable for any of those PCNs so do not pay. In light of the number of tickets you have accumulated they will keep on harassing you to pay and they probably would go to court. I would be inclined to write to Horizon advising them that their PCNs are not compliant with PoFA and you are not liable for the charges.

Point out that as they now know the situation any further claims from them or there lowlife debt collectors and quasi solicitors would definitely be a breach of your GDPR .