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Live cases legal advice => Private parking tickets => Topic started by: IP224 on September 23, 2025, 05:07:04 pm
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Why waste your energy on them? Another good use of all those wasted letters, if you have wood burner or open fire, is to make them into paper logs:
https://youtu.be/S2mLc5Y5A4I?si=tqLShGC9FRH8lJTp
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Ok so I shouldn’t even let them know the others were cancelled?
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Do not ever communicate with a powerless debt collector. They are not a party to any contract allegedly breached by the driver. Their only power is to try and intimidate the low-hanging fruit on the gullible tree into paying up out of ignorance and fear.
You can safely shred any debt recovery letters and use th resulting confetti as hamster bedding, for all anyone cares.
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Update, now I received a debt collection letter from DCBL in Scotland for one of those 3 parking tickets. I was going to write similar letter to them advising I am keeper. Can they do anything?
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Thanks for all your advice. Update, the PPNs to keeper were cancelled.
Of course it was. They didn't have a leg to stand on.
Beware though, your previous "glorious leader" agreed to adopt the English equivalent of PoFA, which, when introduced, probably some time next year, will make it more difficult to deal with these speculative invoices.
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Good news, and thank you for updating us.
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Thanks for all your advice. Update, the PPNs to keeper were cancelled.
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Thank you!
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KISS! Scottish resident and alleged contravention in Scotland.
Driver not identified.
No Keeper liability in Scotland.
Simply ignore EVERYTHING from this scamming, unregulated private parking firm.
End of.
POPLA is irrelevant. Nothing will happen. Get on with your life. Any correspondence from them, including any useless debt recovery letters are simply designed to intimidate the low-hanging fruit on the gullible tree to pay up out of ignorance and fear.
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Thank you!
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It changed.
https://www.popla.co.uk/faqs
I have received a charge in Scotland or Northern Ireland. Can POPLA consider appeals in these countries too?
We can accept appeals from drivers in Scotland and Northern Ireland. This is because Scotland and Northern Ireland has a different set of rules to England and Wales.
In order to appeal to us you must be the driver or appealing on behalf of someone who was driving. If you submit an appeal to POPLA and you were not the driver, or you are appealing on behalf of a driver that has not been identified your appeal will not be assessed and will be withdrawn.
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How have they managed to quote a POPLA appeal verification code on their letter?
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Thanks for the adevice, isn’t POPLA in England anyway?
No, it changed.
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Thanks for the adevice, isn’t POPLA in England anyway?
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You said you wouldn’t enter into further correspondence, so don’t. In particular, you can only appeal to POPLA as the driver, which you don’t want to do. Just ignore all debt collector letters that follow, eventually they’ll give up.
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I managed to upload the letters, thanks.
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See https://www.ftla.uk/private-parking-tickets/ukpa-tickets-in-scotland/ for more on the law in Scotland.
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I can’t seem to be able to upload the photos of letters
READ THIS FIRST - Private Parking Charges Forum guide (https://www.ftla.uk/private-parking-tickets/read-this-first-private-parking-charges-forum-guide/)
Providing you have not told them who was driving, you can ignore. If you have written to them explaining why you do not owe the money, they are likely to treat this as an appeal.
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Hi,
I am in Scotland and as I am keeper received notice. I replied and received many letters. They have ignored my keeper letter and seem to think I have appealed! So should I reply to them or not? Here are the letters https://imgur.com/a/NIU2oQb