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Live cases legal advice => Private parking tickets => Topic started by: exTramp on June 27, 2025, 04:48:13 pm
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As already pointed out above, you are way beyond any appeal and the next phase is going to be a load of useless debt recovery letters which you can safely ignore. 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.
Eventually, when you receive a Letter of Claim (LoC) which will be issued by DCB Legal, come back and we will give you a suitable response to use. In due course they will issue a claim and again, we will provide a suitable defence.
In then, the claim will either be struck out or discontinued. No one pays a penny to ECP if they follow the advice.
Don't try to overthink it.
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Also, read https://www.ftla.uk/private-parking-tickets/read-this-first-private-parking-charges-forum-guide/ and consider how you are identifying the driver.
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What case?
Not following a code of practice isn’t illegal!
However you might have grounds for a complaint to a useless and toothless trade body, such as the BPA. That might get you a POPLA appeal, perhaps, but then on what basis would you appeal? The driver overstayed, you say, and if the signs are adequate, then what?
However if you wait for them to take you to court they’ll eventually give up, if you follow advice here.
“Nobody pays a penny to ECP if they follow advice here.”
Have a read of similar cases, I suggest.
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Thanks. And?
Edit:
Premature reply sent!
And what about the appeal decision not being received?
Would that be enough to dismiss the case by the judge at the Country Court?
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Forget empty car park and no loss arguments! They went out of the window years ago (Beavis etc.).
You’re now in the cycle of debt collector’s letters (ignore) and Letter of Claim (come back here when you do).
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I received PCN by Euro Car Parks for overstaying by around 15 minutes. Car was parked in pubs Car park near the hospital which is apparently managed by Euro Car Parks. The invoice is for £100 which I appealed against. I paid parking for an hour and walked back from the hospital to repark the Car but got held up in the hospital and basically missed it. Did not think anything of it. Appeal decision did not come through for two months and few days back I received another demand for payment letter. Tried to call ECParks but unable to get through, only option is to email which I did. Reply from ECParks says they did reply with a rejection of my appeal by the end of April.
I have not received an email from them - checked Spam, Bin and Inbox folders
I now passed the 28 days to appeal their decision to POPLA too.
What are my options please?
I do not want to pay £100 as:
I paid £2.40 for an hour and overstayed by 15 mins. £100 seems excessive.
Car park was 60% empty at the time I was parked there, they have not lost parking fee by me overstaying those 15 minutes there.
I think they are immoral money grabbing vultures.
What can I do?