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Lots of posts with advice such as https://www.ftla.uk/private-parking-tickets/apcoa-manchester-airport-pcn/msg74812/#msg74812

Your POPLA appeal needs to amplify why PoFA 2012 has not been complied with, I suggest by quoting the specific part(s) of the legislation and in what way PPS has failed to comply with each one.

I found (https://ca.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/a-007-7933?transitionType=Default&contextData=(sc.Default)&firstPage=true)

  A supplemental witness statement should normally be served where the witness proposes materially to add to, alter, correct or retract from what is in his original statement. Permission will be required for the service of a supplemental statement. Such application should be made at the pre-trial review or, if there is no pre-trial review, as early as possible before the start of the trial. If application is made at any later stage, the applicant must provide compelling evidence explaining its delay in adducing such evidence."

This from 2013, however.

What was the date on their notice, which is not a fine? If it was later than 11 March your case is stronger.

https://www.ftla.uk/private-parking-tickets/read-this-first-private-parking-charges-forum-guide/

They can only ask for your details once, so your old address was used. You also do mean your V5C don’t you?

You can contact the data protection officer of both DCBL and the parking company telling them to update your address for service to your new address.

16) How to Contact Us

DCBL’s Data Protection Officer (DPO) is the main contact for anyone who wants to discuss matters covered under this policy or the law, including any person whose personal data we have come into contact with and used or stored, whether for our own purposes or on behalf of another company.

You can email dpo@dcbltd.com

Or write to:

Direct Collection Bailiffs Ltd
Direct House
Greenwood Drive
Manor Park
Runcorn
WA7 1UG

It’s not a fine, it’s an invoice for payment under the contract the driver entered into by parking. In general it is unwise to identify the driver, do not say “I” but “the driver”.

If you contact the parking company, without identifying the driver, you should request a copy of the original PCN (Parking Charge Notice) at the same time.

Read https://www.ftla.uk/private-parking-tickets/read-this-first-private-parking-charges-forum-guide/

DCBL should be ignored otherwise, if you want to fight this. On what basis will you defend this? You will get a Letter of Claim from DCB Legal, not the same company.

Essentially, from https://www.justice.gov.uk/courts/procedure-rules/civil/rules/pd_pre-action_conduct#6.1

The reply should include confirmation as to whether the claim is accepted and, if it is not accepted, the reasons why, together with an explanation as to which facts and parts of the claim are disputed

You don’t need to boil the ocean at this stage, just reply simply.

“Generic” might mean that you have use of the defined space without restrictions, so what your contract doesn’t say may be important as well.