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It seems on 3 occasions I have forgot to validate my parking at the gym. I am entitled to park there and have proof in the app that I was attending the gym at the times in the letters.

As I have moved out from my mums and haven't got around to changing my address I missed the original pcns now I have 3 letters from dcbl and they say its too late to appeal.

I tried to reach out to group nexus who sent the original pcn but they said it was too late even though I showed proof that I was entitled to park there.

I have one letter with a date of 18th of march with 2 fees coming to £340 and another dated the 5th of March.

Am I able to fight this, surely they can't make me pay if I pay for this service.


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As above. Your plan A is to get the gym to call of their contracted dogs. If you're now receiving debt recovery letters, it is too late to appeal. Your fault for not updating your V5C.

Even if you have since updated your V5C, that makes no difference. You must send the parking operator DPO a Data Rectification Notice (DRN) instructing them to update their records with your current address for service and to erase your ol address. The highlighted words are there for a reason, so use them.

Failing to do that is a surefire way to get a CCJ by default.

We are not interested in any debt recovery letters from powerless and useless debt collectors. Never, ever, communicate with a debt collector. They are not a party to any contract allegedly breach by the driver. You can safely ignore them. Their only job is to try and scare the low-hanging fruit on the gullible tree into paying out of ignorance and fear. Ignore them.

Please show us at least one of the Notices to Keeper (NtK) you received. Do not redact any dates other than times.

You can't appeal to POPLA, too late for that.

It’s unlikely that the gym has absolutely no power to get a wrongly PCN cancelled.

You'd be surprised - I've seen some ridiculous contracts that businesses have signed up to. That said, this seems to be a fairly large business who (a) are likely to have someone legally competent in head office making sure they don't sign any crap contracts and (b) have more negotiating power than a small firm.

Being persistent with the gym is definitely a good idea.

That’s not the original. That is the reminder. If you are going to show the NtK, leave ALL dates and times un-redacted!

Do not make any contact with DCBL. They are powerless to do anything. Ignore DCBL unless you are low-hanging fruit on the gullible tree unless you believe they can make you pay out of ignorance and fear.

I'd missed that point.

Show us the exact wording of your comms with the parking company @Dcblsucks

As others have said, don't contact the debt collector. What do you even hope to 'put on hold' at this stage? The sooner the PPC issues court papers, the sooner you can defeat them and move on.

Right now there is little more that you can do. Aside from answer the questions above so the forum can help more effectively when the time comes. Additionally:

What steps have you taken to get the landowner to insist the PPC cancel the PCN?

Have you completed the DRN to ensure all future correspondence go to the correct address?

The gym just replied:
I'm sorry to hear that you received parking fines. I'm afraid that we do not own the car park and are not responsible for issuing fines. If you did get a fine, this would not be due to our decision.


There should be an appeals process that you can follow. It typically involves contacting the parking company and providing a screenshot that shows that you were in the gym on the date of the offence. This information can be found in the app under the activity tab.