Whenever you use this type of car park keep the payment receipt which records the date, time, vehicle reg and amount paid then when you get the demands for money you have a means of proving that you have complied with the requirements for parking. I had 5 separate demands from the notorious Parking Eye company a few years back re alleged breaches at Barnet Hospital and after the 1st one for which I had not kept the receipt I simply used the information from their own system ( the ticket machine) to reject the other 4 claims, I was happy that if they had tried to recover money not owed through the courts that I could show that their claim was incorrect by way of the original ticket/receipt with all the relevant details on it. Would I have won on the day? I like to think so but never had to find out as there was no follow up after I supplied them with the facts. My advice (take it or leave it) is keep the receipt for a couple few months, it's the only proof you will have that you are being falsely pursued. If in doubt take properly qualified legal advice or alternatively I have heard that someone called Jane on Facebook knows a lot (about F A).
I had one myself about a year ago with NCP re: the car park at Arnos Grove tube where I received a notice through the post several weeks later. I paid it because though I was sure I had bought a ticket, I couldn't find it and frankly life is too short to be wasting hours of my time and raising my blood pressure duelling with these rogues (I get enough of that on here, ). A while later I checked my bank account and found that I'd bought a ticket using contactless, but of course, I have no doubt that they would have claimed I hadn't displayed the ticket in accordance with their T&Cs. Regrettably, this is all just part of a larger issue, which is that one of the few growth industries in the UK seems to be what can broadly be categorised as surveillance and enforcement wherein ever more ingenious ways are found of parting people from their hard earned through dubious entrapment scams such as parking, bus lanes, prohibited zone enforcement etc and other assorted ways of making people's lives a misery if they dare to get behind the wheel. I made two trips into London last month in my motorhome and it was only later that I realised I hadn't registered it with TFL for congestion and ULEZ charging, which resulted in, I sh!t you not, £290 worth of fines for CC x2, ULEZ x2 and a fine for driving through the Rotherhithe Tunnel. That has to be added to the £70 DART fines for forgetting to pay for crossing the Thames on the way back from 2 track days at Brands. My son also picked up a bus lane fine because Sadiq Khan thought it was a good idea to allow bikes in some but not others, meaning that using them becomes a nail biting exercise in trying not to get wiped out by Audis using them to queue jump, buses pulling out without indicating while all the time trying to read and interpret signs which half the time are hidden behind overgrown shrubbery. So that's over £400 in fines in one month. It was merely annoying for me as I can afford to pay them, but for some people it could mean they can't pay their rent or have to go without food.
You can afford to pay £400 in fines may I send you my bank details just in case you want to pay any extra
The parking in Milton Keynes does my head in and that’s just the greedy council bastids... But! There's only one person to blame when you fall foul of this sort of thing... and that’s yourself!!
Get your mate to visit the PePiPoo web site for advice BEFORE he replys, http://forums.pepipoo.com/index.php?showforum=60 He certainly has nothing to loose.
Hmmm I parked a while ago in a small carpark in front of some shops, late evening , dark, raining like mad, didn’t think anything wrong with doing so, no barriers , gates or anything . Went out for a drink, few hours spent, week after, 80 pounds fine arrives, firstly I ask for proof, so got e mailed grainy pics from entry and exit, yip it was really me, I then go out in daytime to check, and yes there are some signs on entry that it is privately managed car park, that the 3 shops where long closed doesn’t matter, 24 hours pay apparently, I look at the shops, think for a moment and lightbulb moment, half an hour free, otherwise pay, looking at the very expensive looking kitchen showroom I thought, who can buy a kitchen in half an hour? So next thing I phoned them and explained, I looked in awe at your beautiful kitchens last week, we are looking to replace our kitchen on the coming months, after admiring your beautiful products, we went for a drink, followed by the fine, can I just ask you how you deal with customers who spent a few hours in your showroom ? The answer was that they had the possibility to enter the customers car registration into the system to keep the bloodhounds at bay, after reminding her again about my plans to visit the showroom in the near future, she kindly agreed to my suggestion to make my fine to disappear into the delete bin in said system, next day I did get confirmation from the sharks that my fine was no longer in their system, wishing me a nice day .........so always use your eyes on a rainy dark evening, and if you forget try to be creative
