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Live cases legal advice => Private parking tickets => Topic started by: TheParkingmeister on July 11, 2025, 04:34:05 pm
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Just have a search of the forum for any of the many recent cases involving this operator on the same site and follow the advice given in those.
Uxbridge industrial estate (https://www.ftla.uk/private-parking-tickets/uxbridge-industrial-estate/)
Private Parking Solutions - PCN received - Uxbridge industrial estate (https://www.ftla.uk/private-parking-tickets/private-parking-solutions-uxbridge-industrial-estate/)
Thanks for replying with those, very helpful. But I see neither of those have concluded yet, despite complaints to DVLA, BPA, CTSI and POPLA.
In regards to the landowner authority contract, I saw it was mentioned in one of those threads.
The contract says 'Please provide full name of the company:' and is printed "TRADE SALES", which as mentioned doesn't exist as a legal entity, the closest to TRADE SALES, "TRADE SALES LTD" was dissolved in 2020. What I did find however, is a "WWW. TRADE - SALES.CO.UK LTD" and then "Trade Sale Ltd", registered office in Uxbridge on that indistrail estate somewhere, and a Director Fil Gray, which I believe is the printed name on the contract. Is this a point for contention?
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Just have a search of the forum for any of the many recent cases involving this operator on the same site and follow the advice given in those.
Uxbridge industrial estate (https://www.ftla.uk/private-parking-tickets/uxbridge-industrial-estate/)
Private Parking Solutions - PCN received - Uxbridge industrial estate (https://www.ftla.uk/private-parking-tickets/private-parking-solutions-uxbridge-industrial-estate/)
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PPS never complies with PoFA 2012 to hold the keeper liable in place of the driver, amongst other things they do not adequately specify a “period of parking”, the rubbish they quote is not adequate.
So you have a defence.
Do not identify the driver at any point.
You have to wait now for a Letter of Claim, to which you will reply, then you will file a defence in due course. If it’s DCB Legal running the case, they will discontinue before paying the court fee. Others are equally useless. Just wait and post up anything you receive - other than debt collectors’ letters, eg from DCBL - and you’ll get good advice.
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So this is a bit of a mess. This was appealed in December by a colleague, it was rejected and it was appealed to POPLA. They never got any communications from POPLA regarding this, no portal login, operator evidence update or decision update.
Last month got a letter saying £100 is now owed. I reached out to POPLA to get information about it and the decision, and to complain about not receiving the emails which our email provider and IT department say is not an issue on our end but likely an authentication misconfiguration with their automated system.
Anyway, last Monday we got a debt collector letter asking for £170.
The context of the charge is our vehicle was delivering to a site on UXBRIDGE IND EST. After delivering the driver has come out of the customer site which is quite small, and has stopped at the side of the road for 1 min 56 seconds to set his SatNav. Dick stain from the parking company obviously camps out there all day to catch anyone who unwittingly stops there. My colleague appealed to the operator and to POPLA with this information and the delivery note. But ne er heard back from POPLA.
Now it's been put on my desk to deal with and I am reluctant to just pay £170 for something so ridiculous.
What can I do at this point? Do I even have a defense legally?
I finally got access to the operator evidence which the contract I have attached is part of. Does full company name mean full company name legally or can you just put the name of a dissolved company?
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