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Private parking tickets / Re: Fined by private company for stopping on public double yellows
« on: January 02, 2025, 07:25:54 pm »Welcome to FTLA.
Your account of events is somewhat confusing. You state that your car was parked on what you believed to be a public highway, then say that the parking company "own the hotel's tiny car park" (which you say your vehicle not parked on). From Google Street View I can't tell which parking company operates the car park at the Travelodge, but the signs don't look like Euro Car Parks signage, so it's likely nothing to do with the hotel. I can see from Tower Hamlet's Highways Register that Oregano Drive is a private road.
If you would like advice we could do with seeing:
- The notice you received
- A copy of your appeal
- If you can get them easily, photos of the signage in the area (or lack thereof)
What usually happens with Euro Car Parks charges is the following:
- Appeal rejected
- POPLA appeal - if successful, end of process, if unsuccessful, as below:
- Series of debt collector letters over a period of some months
- Eventually, a Letter of Claim, followed by a claim in the County Court
- If you defend this with our help, Euro Car Park's solicitors, DCB Legal, will eventually discontinue proceedings at the last minute
After some further help on Reddit it seems it is a privately maintained road but is not obviously sign-posted and completely blends with the rest of public roads. Car parks have plenty of signs to make it clear that you are entering a contact with them but in this case there is no obvious distinction between public and private. No doubt there is some sign placed somewhere with a big block of text that they can use to make arguing against this difficult enough to make it not worth my time