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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. Apparently there is a max 3 hours limit which we were not aware of. This means taking kids to softplay and then having a meal on one of the restaurants will more than likely take you over the limit. Makes us wonder how they deal with people staying in the hotel as the ANPR seems to be in public street that 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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She's gone to AUSTRALIA. Now I need some advice. I moved into a property begining of 2006. 6 month contract, renewable. IN june I told her I was going in September, she was ok about it. I left in September, and wrote to her asking for my deposit (£800) back. Nothing. A month later her father wrote to me telling me she had gone to Australia, and that the apartment was a mess and they had to redecorate blah blah blah and that I wouldn't get my deposit back. I told him that was unreasonable as the apartment was in a poor state when I took it over, she did no condition inventary, and was going to take it further. I sent a version of the template letter advised here, and offered £100 costs for cleaning. Again, nothing.

I want to take her/him to court, what do I do, she's in Australia, I have her fathers name but no address, he's looking after matters for her. Do I use the apartment address with her name or his? Thats my money they have used to redecorate and re let!!!:mad::???: :???:

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If you still have your tenancy agreement for the property, there might be (should be) a clause there which contains contact details of the landlord for purpose of serving notices. Use this address. She is not your landlady anymore but you still have an unfinished business concerning the tenancy, i.e. deposit.

Once you have the contact details, implement normal procedures; first letter (see sticky on top of this forum), Letter Before Action, county court. Nice tight deadlines, witness statements/evidence etc. As a matter of courtesy, cc your letters to the l/lady's father. Good luck.

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You should note that realistically, you have very little chance unfortunately of receiving any of your deposit for the foreseeable future. If she has moved to Oz permanently, then even though you can get a claim against her, you will not be able to enforce the judgement.

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additionally, you may want to register your order (if you get one) against the property, so if she ever wants to sell, she will be forced to pay you. This is called a "charging order" and it involves the court placing a 'charge' on the judgment debtor's property.

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Great! Thanks for the info, it will make me feel a little better to have a charge put on the property. I'd love to implicate her father as well but that would be a waste of time, probably.

I'll MCOL the landlady, any ideas with regard to the wording? a template maybe?

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before MCOL please make sure that you follow the correct steps, otherwise your action will be too hasty. so; letter one as per template in the sticky, 14 days later :letter before action, which should contain a short summary of a first letter plus warning about impending court action. then, 14 days later MCOL. I suppose you can run the partculars of claim by us, if you need re-assurance but you know more or less what's the game.

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Definitely follow Joa's advice, you need to be able to demostrate to the court that you made all possible efforts to resolve it before going to court. Send ALL letters Recorded Delivery so you can prove delivery and keep a copy for yourself as well so you can produce them in court. Keep a folder for this specifically and file EVERYTHING you have in there including your lease, inventory, letters send and received. Always deal in writing, if you do end up on the phone, keep a log.

 

I don't know if it'll at least give you a start when you come to MCOL here but here's the particulars of claim I came up with against my landlord:

The pursuer, knoxvillain, leased the property at 21/8 xxxxxxxx Street, xxxxxxxx, West Lothian, EHxx xxx from the defender, xxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxx Ltd, between 4th November 2005 and 17th November 2006. The pursuer paid a deposit of £435 to the defendant at the start of the lease.

 

Upon departure from the property, the deposit was not returned to the pursuer. Despite several requests, the defender has refused to return any of the deposit and has failed to provide adequate documentation accounting for the use of the deposit for repairs & cleaning. Copies of all correspondence, along with proof of delivery, is available and will be produced in court.

 

The pursuer admits that there was damage to the decor of the property and a small amount of damage to a kitchen unit caused by a puppy chewing on it. The pursuer contends that the £435 retained, along with the additional £662.33 requested, by the defender does not accurately reflect the level of repairs required to restore the property back to the condition it was in at the start of the tenancy (allowing for 12 months of wear and tear). The pursuer calculates that £202.85 will reasonably cover the work required.

 

The pursuer claims a sum equivalent to the remaining amount of the deposit after reasonable deductions for required repairs and cleaning costs. The sum of £232.15 along with £4.07 in interest. A total claim of £236.22 plus the costs & expenses of bringing this action.

 

The defender’s premises are located in xxxxxxxxxx, West Lothian and is therefore under the jurisdiction of xxxxxxx Sheriff Court.

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The real problem I do forsee is the address, obviously I don't have the landlady's address, nor did her father give his address in his letter. I will only be able to use the address of the rented property for a) recorded letters or b) any court action. Thats my real problem.

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Use the land registry website to search the rented property - you should be able to find it out from there. Is the address not in the AST?

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Lol...the AST is the tenancy agreement :D

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Ah I see, so the only property she now owns is the apartment? I am not sure if serving notice will count there, as it is not her residence and so not reasonable to expect she will receive notice.

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You cannot put a charge on the property if you cannot serve her valid notice of suing her. The reason for this is, if you cannot serve her valid notice, you are giving her no opportunity to either resolve the claim prior to a court date, or to make appearance at the court date, therefore no way of defending the claim.

 

Think about it this way. Because they cannot defend it, you could sue them for 10 times the amount they owe(well you couldnt because of small claims amounts but ignore that :D), and IF it was valid service, you would win by default when she didn't turn up because she didn't know about it! That is why it is NOT valid service.

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Thanks Mr Shed, bad news. But on the court action, if I do go ahead, if I cheekily place her fathers name as care of, might that not speed him into some action as it implements him as well and he will by rights contact her. I mean he contacted me after she left for OZ, and told me he was in fact managing her property. Guilty by association? Or am I clutching at straws?

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That may be more feasible. If he has stated that he is now managing the property, that would make him her agent for the property, and so you could send the notice CARE OF him. You still cannot involve him in the actual claim. But, during the tenancy, the landlord must supply an address in england and wales to the tenant....it is not unreasonable, given the information you have had presented, for you to come to the conclusion that this address is the father's address.

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Oh goody! He in fact wrote to me to inform me she had gone, no address for him, he also phoned me and when I asked for his address, he refused. So, Mr Landladys dad, your for it :D

 

Scales clicked Mr Shed, thanks!

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Can you not get the postmark off the envelope and look him up in the phonebook if you know his surname? That'd get you his address

 

I see a bright future for you Knoxvillian working for a DCA :D . Postmark ineligible, however I have his phone number, so could try and locate his address that way, do you think I should serve a Court order at this address?

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