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Live cases legal advice => Private parking tickets => Topic started by: Sticky on November 27, 2025, 01:56:19 pm
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You have not received any "fine" I will give you £100 for every occurrence of the word "fine" you can show me in any of the correspondence you have received about this. Anyone referring to a Parking Charge Notice (PCN) as a "fine" is simply flagging that they are low-hanging fruit on the gullible tree and easily intimidated into paying out of ignorance and fear.
What did the gym management say when you approached them about receiving a speculative invoice from their contracted agent? They are supposedly the Organ Grinder, not the Monkey in their contractual arrangement and could simply tell their agent to cancel the PCN if you are a valued customer.
If you appealed to (not so) Smart Parking and they agreed to reduce the charge to £20 and you paid it, surely you have some correspondence confirming this? Show it to us.
If you have received a useless debt recovery letter from DRP, you can safely ignore that. DRP are not a party to any contract allegedly breached by the driver. They are powerless to do anything.
Double check that the DRP letter is in relation to a different PCN to the one you agreed to pay £20 to be rid of.
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I come to this forum having found it later than intended, and so I realise I have not proceeded in the capacity as advised by the moderators regarding the parking fine.
I received a parking fine for overstaying the allotted time in the car park whilst using the gym, of which I was a member.
I was entitled to 3 hours free parking and I exceeded this.
There were signs in the car park stating the time limit and I cannot argue that I didn't see them as they were everywhere.
However, I was unaware of the time and I was using facilities for which I was paying a monthly subscription to use. I had contacted the company that sent the fine, and I paid the £20 fee to settle.
However, today I received a second fine that is now £170 for another day in the same car park for the same violation. The correspondence, I assumed for the same fine.
I have admitted being the driver, because I have contacted them previously, but all correspondence I felt I had dealt with the other one. Where do I stand on this. Do I have any redress on this. The company that issued the fine was smart `parking and it has now proceeded to Debt Recovery Plus