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Good Afternoon,

In November of last year, the vehicle (of which i am the registered keeper) was parked in Winnersh Triangle, payment is via the RingGo app.
Due to no signal being avaiable there was a delay between parking and payment being taken on the ringgo app, payment for the full parking event did get taken though.

It would seem, between the parking, and payment the car park was visited and photos were taken of the vehicle and a PCN was received.

An appeal with the payment refernce/invoice was submitted on the 24th December, and an email was recieved from NPC saying they had recieved my appeal.

I have had no further correspondance from NPC until today when i recieved a notice of debt recovery from dcbl.

Timleine is as follows:

date of contrevention: 11/12/25
Date of PCN - 12/12/25  (£100 reduced to 60 if paid in 14 Days)
appealed - 24/12/25
Notice of Debt Recovery - recioeved 13/3/26 - (now £170)

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Just wondering what the options are now, i assume wait for dbcl to "refer" it back to PCN but any advice would be appreciated.

Many thanks

Fab thanks, will do.

It’s from DCB Legal, not DCBL, and - yes - it’s a Letter of Claim or a Letter before Claim, they’re the same thing.

Please post the original PCN without the dates obscured, as requested in https://www.ftla.uk/private-parking-tickets/read-this-first-private-parking-charges-forum-guide/. Is your summary of dates as posted instead correct, ie the PCN dated 1 day after the parking?

Just been looking around at a reply, am i right in thinking I can respond to this by letter / email, rather then filling in the reply form / financial forms

I have seen this as a template, just want to check this is still current info.

Dear Sirs,

Your ref: [insert reference number]

Proposed legal proceedings

Claimant: [insert name of parking company]

I refer to your letter of claim.

I confirm that my address for service for the time being is as follows, and any older address must be erased from your records:

[Insert correct address here]

You should revert to your client because the 'propensity to pay' score in my case is zero, so any claim is hopeless and a waste of the court fee (whether 'fronted' by your firm or not).

The alleged 'debt' is disputed and any court proceedings will be vigorously defended.

Yours faithfully,

Thanks for the help
Cheers
Tim