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Private parking tickets / Re: Baliff letter recevied 10 months after PCN that was never received
« on: October 17, 2025, 03:32:14 pm »
b789 - thank you for the detailed reply, I have a couple of questions to ask ( in red below) to make sure I understand correctly what you are saying:
You can safely ignore any debt recovery letters. DO NOT, ever, EVER, try and communicate with a powerless debt collector. You can safely shred their letters and use them as Hamster bedding for anyone cares. A debt collector is not a party to any contract allegedly breached by the driver. All they can do is try and intimidate the low-hanging fruit on the gullible tree into paying out of ignorance and fear. NOTED
If you follow the advice you receive here, you will not be paying a penny to anyone for this. However, DO NOT continue to communicate with DCBL. Just because they have the word +Bailiff+ in their company name does not make them bailiffs in this case. Ignore them. WILL HAPPILY DO SO !
It is entirely possible that when you say the DVLA were updated with your sons new address, you mean the drivers licence. The V5C has to be updated separately. YES IT WAS HIS DRIVING LICENCE HE CHANGED ONLINE, RE V5 WILL GET THIS DONE NOW, HOWEVER IT'S A MOTOBILITY CAR SO NOT SURE IF THEY HAVE THE V5, WILL ASK SON TO FIND OUT
Anyway, what you MUST do immediately is send a Data Rectification Notice (DRN) to the parking firms Data Protection Officer (DPO) instructing them to update their records with the correct address for service and to erase any old address. The highlighted words are there for a reason, so use them. If your son changes address again, he will have to repeat the exercise. DO YOU MEAN SENDING A "DRN" TO WHO ISSUED THE PCN ( CIVIL PARKING OFFICES LTD) ?
Apaer from that, do nothing else until you receive confirmation that they have updated their records with the correct address for service. Once that is done, you are then waiting for a Letter of Claim (LoC) which will come from DCB Legal (not DCBL). When that arrives, let us know and we will advise on how to respond.
This will eventually lead to a county court claim being issued to your son. However, I can assure you with greater that 99.9% certainty that it will never go as far as a hearing as the claim will either be struck out or discontinued before they are required to pay the £27 trial fee, many months down the line.
You can safely ignore any debt recovery letters. DO NOT, ever, EVER, try and communicate with a powerless debt collector. You can safely shred their letters and use them as Hamster bedding for anyone cares. A debt collector is not a party to any contract allegedly breached by the driver. All they can do is try and intimidate the low-hanging fruit on the gullible tree into paying out of ignorance and fear. NOTED
If you follow the advice you receive here, you will not be paying a penny to anyone for this. However, DO NOT continue to communicate with DCBL. Just because they have the word +Bailiff+ in their company name does not make them bailiffs in this case. Ignore them. WILL HAPPILY DO SO !
It is entirely possible that when you say the DVLA were updated with your sons new address, you mean the drivers licence. The V5C has to be updated separately. YES IT WAS HIS DRIVING LICENCE HE CHANGED ONLINE, RE V5 WILL GET THIS DONE NOW, HOWEVER IT'S A MOTOBILITY CAR SO NOT SURE IF THEY HAVE THE V5, WILL ASK SON TO FIND OUT
Anyway, what you MUST do immediately is send a Data Rectification Notice (DRN) to the parking firms Data Protection Officer (DPO) instructing them to update their records with the correct address for service and to erase any old address. The highlighted words are there for a reason, so use them. If your son changes address again, he will have to repeat the exercise. DO YOU MEAN SENDING A "DRN" TO WHO ISSUED THE PCN ( CIVIL PARKING OFFICES LTD) ?
Apaer from that, do nothing else until you receive confirmation that they have updated their records with the correct address for service. Once that is done, you are then waiting for a Letter of Claim (LoC) which will come from DCB Legal (not DCBL). When that arrives, let us know and we will advise on how to respond.
This will eventually lead to a county court claim being issued to your son. However, I can assure you with greater that 99.9% certainty that it will never go as far as a hearing as the claim will either be struck out or discontinued before they are required to pay the £27 trial fee, many months down the line.
We have never received the PCN or any reminder/demands for payment as these apparently went to an address he moved out of in Sept 24 ( Parking offence is 1.12.24) 