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Live cases legal advice => Private parking tickets => Topic started by: sampak on June 24, 2025, 03:23:25 pm
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READ THIS FIRST - Private Parking Charges Forum guide (https://www.ftla.uk/private-parking-tickets/read-this-first-private-parking-charges-forum-guide/)
Don't pay it. If you follow the advice here, you won't be paying a penny to ECP. I advise that you ignore everything you receive, reminders and especially debt recovery letters. Debt collectors are powerless to do anything except to try and 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) from DCB Legal and we will provide a suitable response. Eventually, you will receive a county court claim and we will provide a suitable defence. In due course the claim will be struck out or discontinued and that will be the end of the matter. It is a drawn out process and can take up to year or longer.
At the ned of the day, no one pays a penny to ECP if they follow the advice.
Others ay suggest an appeal which is guaranteed to be rejected and then a subsequent appeal to POPLA. However, in ECP cases, POPLA rarely agrees with the appellant and I am just trying to save you a lot of wasted time and effort to reach the same conclusion.
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Hi there,
A few days ago, I returned from a couple of weeks away and found a Parking Charge Notice from Euro Car Parks waiting for me. The charge relates to an occasion where I parked for just over three hours, even though the limit is two. According to the notice, today is the deadline to pay the reduced £60 charge.
I haven’t contacted them yet, as they state that appealing will remove the option to pay the lower amount. However, I find these kinds of restrictions quite unreasonable—it's often difficult to complete everything you intend to do (shopping, grabbing a bite to eat) within just two hours.
Given this, I’m wondering: do I actually need to pay this at all? The whole thing feels a bit shady, and I know private parking enforcement operates differently to council-issued fines.
Any advice would be much appreciated.