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Live cases legal advice => Private parking tickets => Topic started by: Georgie on February 11, 2026, 11:21:16 am
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Sorry - my fault for skimming, missed that one of them was a pub and not an airport.
Good news that the pub intervened. Make sure you follow up with an email so that you have written confirmation.
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Okay so pay the pub one? leave the airport one and see if something else develops? If I get a court letter then i pay it?
Is that the plan? Also thank you for the advice, i actually had a neighbour take in my mail and she forgot to give it because she's quite elderly.
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Update: I phoned the pub and they cancelled the ticket! Great news! - Apparently it was sent in error as its for people using the train station. Patrons of the pub are okay.
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As they have gone to debt collectors, you could just ignore - come back if you receive a Letter of Claim from their solicitors. It's too late for them to consider an appeal. If you search on here for airport drop off cases, you'll see they have no way to recover the charges from you as the keeper of the vehicle.
As an aside, I note your comment that you were away for 3 months. If you are the keeper of a vehicle, and are going to be away for that long, you need to ensure there is some way for you to have your post checked semi-regularly. If this had been a criminal offence such as speeding, rather than a private parking charge, and you hadn't responded for 3 months, you'd now potentially be facing prosecution.
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Hey there, I'm new to driving and I've been away from home for the past 3 months, so I didn't receive these letters. I passed my test in august, so I'm new to all this and no doubt this is all my fault. Is there anything that can be done at this stage?
Pub Car Park
You must get tonnes of excuses, but there was a bunch of vans blocking all the signs. I also assumed since it was part of the pub that it would be free. So upon entering I didn't see anything, then when exiting the car park I saw the sign because someone had moved, I tried calling but I had literally 0 signal in that entire area - so I couldn't even pay if i wanted.
Solved! I phoned the pub and they cancelled it! - Apparently it was a deterrent for people going to the train station. Jesus.
Airport Drop off
I did actually drop someone off here. None of us saw any signs :(
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1hXBKfUCn7LDtDDvRjARWts2N0GJvBGLz?usp=sharing
Is there anything can be done about this?