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Live cases legal advice => Private parking tickets => Topic started by: bostvik on September 09, 2025, 09:49:39 pm
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Thank you so much for your kind response that all makes sense and is a weight off my shoulders. Certainly been a learning experience for me. I'll hold my horses and see what further steps Nexus try and take.
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Asking CAB for advice on civil parking matters is an exercise in futility. As for offering to pay the £20, is an admission of liability which you must never do!!!
Your saving grace is that this is GroupNexus (CP Plus Ltd) and they will eventually escalate it to a county court claim. However, they use DCB Legal as their bulk litigator of preference. All you need to know is that any claim issued by DCB Legal will never reach a hearing in court. As long as it is defended, especially if you follow our advice and use the template we provide, it will either be struck out or discontinued before they have to pay the £27 trial fee.
This is not guesswork. I always take on bets at 100-1 odds, if anyone cares to me up, that the claim will never be heard in court.
A POPLA rejection is not binding on you. DO NOT pay it. You will next start receiving useless debt recovery letters which you can safely ignore. Debt collectors are powerless to do anything except to try and persuade the los-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.
Just to answer some of your other questions, assuming you are the first of tens of thousands of DCB Legal initiated claims that is defended and still reaches court, even if you were unsuccessful, the £70 added fake fee is never allowed and apart from fixed costs of £35 Claim Application Fee and £50 fixed legal costs, you would owe ~£200. As long as the CCJ amount is paid in full within 30 days of judgement, there is nothing on your credit file. It is completely expunged.
The only "harassment" a debt collector can do is to send you useless letters. As I've already mentioned, you can safely ignore any letters from debt collectors. They are not a party to the contract allegedly breached by the driver and are therefore powerless to actually do anything.
For future reference, next time you receive a PCN from an unregulated private parking firm, DO NOT identify the driver. They have no idea who the driver is unless you, the registered keeper blabs that information to them.
As for Pure Gym, we see so many PCNs issued at their locations, I would advise you to cancel your membership and tell them why. Getting invoiced for £100 by a third party because their chosen car park operator is a scummy bunch of ex-clampers who are out to scam their customers, is not good for their business.
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Hi I'm looking for some advice/guidance on my present situation with a failed appeal for a PCN. I've seen this site recommended online and would be really grateful for any help.
-I used a car park in Leeds Kirkstall twice to visit a different PureGym while my usual PureGym was being renovated
-Puregym app advertisrx the site as having free parking which I've screenshotted as part of my appeal evidence
-There was no signage at all from the private parking company stating a need to validate parking only a need to pay during the hours I visited which didn't apply to me as was using the car park with a valid reason for free, there also wasn't any clear signage in the gym itself (if there was any at all), which was unstaffed at the times visited
-I received two PCNs as a result from Group Nexus
-I provided evidence from the Puregym app of my visits matching the parking stays to show this was a legitimate use of the car park each time
-One of the PCNs was waived by Nexus, for the other I was asked to pay a reduced £20.00 fee - as I had not been alerted otherwise in my eyes between visits these effectively were the same instance of the same problem. I felt any fee was unfair
-I appealed the decision with POPLA
-Group Nexus sent through supporting 'evidence' on the POPLA of the signage which is what alerted me to the fact there was no reference to a requirement to validate parking signposted
-29/07/25 POPLA upheld the PCN "The parking operator has advised there is a third-party agreement with Puregym for gym users to be able to register for parking at the site. As this is a third-party agreement there is no requirement for this to be on the signs in the car park. The parking operator is not responsible for Puregym not advertising this within the gym, app or their website, the appellant would need to raise this with Puregym directly. I note that the appellant has advised the staff at the reception did not advise them off the parking restrictions, the staff at the venue are a third party and under no obligation to inform motorists of the parking restrictions." (I mentioned no-one had told me to validate the parking, but have since realised this is because the gym is unstaffed at night)
-29/07/25 the same day I emailed Group Nexus asking them to reconsider and that I'd be happy to pay the £20.00 to draw the matter to a close, in this email I mentioned "I've tried to make payment today but have been unable as I'm no longer afforded the option on your website. Please make this facility available so we can bring this process to an end."
-08/09/25 Nexus have finally replied to that email (outside of their own automated responses specified timescale of 28 days) saying I now owe £170.00 due to not paying the original charge in 28 days of the decision, with no reference to my explanation in the email prior that I didn't have the option to pay. This ends by saying "we are sorry we are unable to enter into any further correspondence about this matter". I'd wrongly assumed they'd given up.
I'm wondering:
-Is it likely this would go to court
-Would I be likely to win a court case over this
-If I lost a court case and were asked to pay a country court judgement, would this affect my credit history even if I paid this right away
-How much roughly would the extra court costs be if I had to pay these
Just generally I wanted to know what would be my next best steps, my local Citizens Advice Office isn't taking emails and I think I'd struggle to explain this well over the phone. I'm wondering if I should respond to Nexus particularly to point out I wasn't able to make payment on 29/07/25 when I'd tried. Ideally I'd not pay anything as I don't feel this is justified. Plenty of people online seem to suggest ignoring these charges as they rarely go to court but I'm also slightly worried about what a debt collection process would look like as don't want me and my partner to be harassed.
Many thanks for taking the time to read ❤️