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Private parking tickets / DCBL notice of debt recovery letter - Meridian Place, Canary Wharf
« on: May 24, 2025, 02:48:26 pm »
Hi everyone, I was hoping to get some advice regarding my DCBL PCN. I have spent some time lurking and am aware that the prevailing advice seems to be to ignore the letters until DCBL Legal or court letters arrive. Have just received the Notice of Debt Recovery letter.
Unpaid parking charge: £170
Client: London Parking Solutions Ltd
Reason for contravention: NO Parking on Roadway or footpath.
Date: 06/02/2023
Short backstory:
Wife and I stayed at Airbnb on the premises which came with free allocated parking in the properties underground parking. Garage was accessed via keyfob on property keys. We were instructed to post keys through letterbox inside property lobby upon checkout. On day of checkout, garage door opened, vehicle driven around to front of property while other person returned the keys to the postbox and walked out to the car at front. Vehicle stopped on double yellow lines (private land) for short duration while keys were returned and passenger picked up.
Follow up
PCN initially received from London Parking Solutions, and on their website portal had photo's the vehicle stopped in the front of the property on double yellow lines, the photo's show the designated pull in area at the front was blocked by a van and all parking bays are allocated residents bays. Photo's show the vehicle was stopped for approx 4 minutes with the driver in the vehicle and indicators on.
Only signage I recall seeing was a small-medium size sign with a lot of information on (no photo's of this sorry) located not in direct eye line when entering the premises. If memory serves it was on a pillar/wall at 90 degrees to direction of travel. You would have to stop and get out to properly read it. It's also not possible to view this place on google maps.
I initially did email London Parking Solutions explaining the above circumstances but this as you can imagine fell on deaf ears and the PCN was upheld. Several usual threatening letters were sent which I unfortunately didn't keep and then nothing for well over a year. A few months ago I received an email from DCBL essentially saying the same as the letter today. I have deleted this email unfortunately. I did also contact the property owners explaining the situation but they refused to have any input essentially stating that parking matters are not handled by them, unfortunately this email I also deleted.
I don't have access to the photos from London Parking Solutions anymore and haven't kept any of the letters/emails which in retrospect was probably a poor choice and a poor choice contacting LPS.
I am just wondering what my next steps should be, shall I just ignore and await any possible letters from DCBL Legal, and based on what I've said would I have any hope of contesting this if it did eventually go to small claims court.
Thank you in advance!
Unpaid parking charge: £170
Client: London Parking Solutions Ltd
Reason for contravention: NO Parking on Roadway or footpath.
Date: 06/02/2023
Short backstory:
Wife and I stayed at Airbnb on the premises which came with free allocated parking in the properties underground parking. Garage was accessed via keyfob on property keys. We were instructed to post keys through letterbox inside property lobby upon checkout. On day of checkout, garage door opened, vehicle driven around to front of property while other person returned the keys to the postbox and walked out to the car at front. Vehicle stopped on double yellow lines (private land) for short duration while keys were returned and passenger picked up.
Follow up
PCN initially received from London Parking Solutions, and on their website portal had photo's the vehicle stopped in the front of the property on double yellow lines, the photo's show the designated pull in area at the front was blocked by a van and all parking bays are allocated residents bays. Photo's show the vehicle was stopped for approx 4 minutes with the driver in the vehicle and indicators on.
Only signage I recall seeing was a small-medium size sign with a lot of information on (no photo's of this sorry) located not in direct eye line when entering the premises. If memory serves it was on a pillar/wall at 90 degrees to direction of travel. You would have to stop and get out to properly read it. It's also not possible to view this place on google maps.
I initially did email London Parking Solutions explaining the above circumstances but this as you can imagine fell on deaf ears and the PCN was upheld. Several usual threatening letters were sent which I unfortunately didn't keep and then nothing for well over a year. A few months ago I received an email from DCBL essentially saying the same as the letter today. I have deleted this email unfortunately. I did also contact the property owners explaining the situation but they refused to have any input essentially stating that parking matters are not handled by them, unfortunately this email I also deleted.
I don't have access to the photos from London Parking Solutions anymore and haven't kept any of the letters/emails which in retrospect was probably a poor choice and a poor choice contacting LPS.
I am just wondering what my next steps should be, shall I just ignore and await any possible letters from DCBL Legal, and based on what I've said would I have any hope of contesting this if it did eventually go to small claims court.
Thank you in advance!