Parking fine notice (by PPS) at 142-154 Victoria Road, North Acton Road, W3 6UL

You'll find the debt collectors letters get increasingly threatening but laughable. If they're anything like some my partner's recently received threatening that they MAY do this or MAY do that. Their client MAY wish to take further action. They never WILL do much more except send more letters then hopefully give up.

Looks like they have not given up 

Quote from: b789 on August 23, 2025, 03:25:11 pm

There is no need to redact the assessors name. It is in the public domain and we like to keep a record of which ones ought to be let go because of their utter stupidity and ignorance.

POPLA’s response is a masterclass in procedural laziness and statutory illiteracy. The assessor has rubber-stamped the operator’s assertions without applying even the most basic scrutiny to PoFA’s mandatory language or the evidential burden required under the PPSCoP.

Their grasp of “period of parking” is laughable—treating two timestamps a second apart as compliance is not interpretation, it’s intellectual malnourishment. The decision can be safely ignored as it carries no legal weight, is not binding on you and merely confirms that POPLA remains a box-ticking exercise staffed by clipboard-wielding amateurs.

I would suggest a complaint to POPLA but that is also an exercise in futility because they are not answerable to anyone and even if they admit they are wrong, they will never reverse a decision.

FOr now, you can safely ignore all debt recovery letters that will start coming. Debt collectors are powerless and they can only try to persuade the low-hanging fruit on the gullible tree to pay up out of ignorance and fear.

Come back when you receive a Letter of Claim (LoC).

Thank you for your advice, will do that.

Hello! They have sent me a letter before claim which I have attached here, could you please advise me on what I should be doing next?

The other issue I have is that I will not be receiving any more mails as I am relocating to another county. This is being addressed to my previous address and not my current one, I can only redirect mails from current address to my new address therefore I will be not be able to receive any mails sent to me.

Thank you so much for your support and guidance, much appreciated.

You should update PPS and Gladstones with your new address abroad.

That will shut them up.

In the meantime, reply to the LBC denying that any debt is owed.

If you can post up the original PCN we can help with some rebuttal points.