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Ok I will instruct to not work or do anything.

Many thanks.

Hmmm, there's no helping some people.



The keeper has received an email from someone called Emily Maloney (Litigation Support Associate) DCB Legal Ltd. (see below). The keeper forwarded a ZIP containing 5 PDF files:

• Appeal and response to appeal : Contains copy of appeal sent by keeper and the response to appeal.
  
• Images : images of car entering leaving car park with time stamps.
  
• Notices : a copy of the original notice.
  
• Signs : photos of signs from the car park.
  
• Sitemap : a sketch of car park layout
  

I asked the keeper if the previously suggested email had been sent, but apparently not! 



They are abroad at the moment, and due back in about three weeks.



The email below was dated "31/07/2025", and gives 30 days to pay, or a Claim will be issued, which suggests that no harm has been done.



I haven't had a chance to redact all the PDFs, and not altogether sure how I can do that anyway. I'll try and sort that out in case any of it needs to be seen.



The case does relate to one I recall helping with on Pepipoo, where ECP were issuing notices for a Car Park called Sussex House in Crawley, West Sussex. This is a building that was demolished over a decade ago I believe, to be replaced by a Morrisons Superstore, Travelodge and car park. ECP seemed to be continuing to issue notices on the old address. There are now newer websites appeared that refer to the new building as Sussex House, but these were not present at the time of the original notice.



Information on old Sussex House building:

https://www.wessexarch.co.uk/sites/default/files/62680%20-%20Sussex%20House%2C%20Crawley.pdf



This is the new website, and WayBackmachine suggests this appeared and was crawled the first time in May 2022, which is two months after the original notice, and I wonder if notices being appealed on wrong location were why this was created at the time:

https://www.fidumpm.com/portfolio/sussex-house/



Anyway, what if anything should be done now, or can things wait until the keeper has returned to the UK?

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Dear XXXXXXXXXXXXX



We write in response to your correspondence received in our office.

As per your request, please find attached the evidence DCB Legal hold concerning the Parking Charge issued. If there are any documents that you have requested, but that are not enclosed with this email, it is because we have deemed the request to be disproportionate and/or not relevant to the substantive issues in dispute.

• Account Name: DCB Legal Ltd Client Account
  
• Sort Code: 20-24-09
  
• Account Number: 60964441
  

Kind Regards,

 

Emily Maloney

Litigation Support Associate

DCB Legal Ltd

 

Tel: 0203 434 0433 | DX 23457 Runcorn

dcblegal.co.uk | Twitter | Linkedin | Facebook

 

Registered Office Direct House, Greenwood Drive, Manor Park, Runcorn WA7 1UG | Fax: 01606 783702 | ICO Reg: ZA279934

The information contained in this message and any attachments is confidential and may also be privileged.  If you are not the intended addressee you may not disclose, distribute or further copy or use this communication or the information in it.  If you have received this communication in error please notify us as soon as possible and delete the message.  All reasonable steps have been taken by us to ensure that this message is free from viruses.  We do not accept liability for any loss resulting from corruption or alteration of data or importation of any virus as a result of receiving it.  Unless the contents of this message relate to legal advice given to a client of the firm in accordance with instructions or correspondence in a client transaction the views expressed in this electronic communication may be personal opinions of the author for which DCB Legal Limited accepts no liability.

DCB Legal is a trading name of DCB Legal Limited company registration 10633864. We are authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. SRA No. 638321

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The email has been sent.

The registered keeper (RK) received these today, I told them to ignore these, but included them here for completeness:













The following was then handed to me, which the RK says arrived today as well. So the above was posted about a week before this and yet arrived together!?

I asked if they had been in the same envelope. Apparently they were not.











I understand this is not to be ignored. Told RK to await instructions from me.

There seems to have been a flurry of blue badge cases recently, maybe this is normal I don't know. I took a look at a few out of curiosity as years back I used to frequently use blue badges.

However, I am not, and never was disabled myself, and it struck me that a lot of these case perhaps unnecessarily identify the driver, as it looks like this is assumed quite often.

My use of blue badges was only ever because of passengers, one being my grandmother before she passed, the other my wife's mother, before she passed too, hence not having used a blue badge in recent years.

So alongside the recommendations about keeping driver and keeper identity separate and unidentified, shouldn't the same be maintained when it comes to blue badge cases. Whether or not the blue badge holder was driver or passenger should be irrelevant in a many of these cases surely?

Useful to know, although I do not intend getting into such a situation myself.

Clearly the YouTuber could have faired better had he known this information.

Anyway, all I can do is wait and see what the RK receives next, which could be some time I guess.

Thanks.

Oh I am, don't worry. They don't bother me, not least because it isn't my correspondence anyway.



Just being curious. I haven't been floating around FTLA for quite a while, I was on Pepipoo from 2008 until it died. Since moving away from London, I haven't been so involved with these things. In London I came across quite a lot of cases, but out here not so much. Even the wife has managed to stay out of trouble!! LOL!



Good to see this is still going though. Pepipoo was great and I will not forget the gratitude I felt to the people on the forum then, especially when they helped me get the best part of £500 back after the wife's car was towed by a council.



Anyway consider DCBL dutifully ignored!

Many thanks.

I will instruct to file the letters and await the next one and come back to me.