Hello,
At the start of last year, I made a delivery to a pub who own a car park monitored by ParkingEye, received a PCN a few weeks later. I made the mistake of identifying myself to POPLA when going through the appeals process, and all of my appeals to parking companies/debt collectors have fallen on deaf ears.
However, at one point during this process, I reached out to the landowners, who said they would contact ParkingEye to get the PCN dropped. I found out that it took 3 months for them to submit this request to ParkingEye, the time in which the amount being claimed went up.
Furthermore, the land owners did not notify me that this request to ParkingEye was rejected, and so I assumed the PCN was being dealt with even beyond this 3 months (as the land owners told me,) whilst the amount ParkingEye were claiming continued to rise.
The claim is now around £200, and has been passed to DCB legal. I don't know whether they will take it to court, but I've made sure to warn them I have researched the law around the issue and will fight the claim, hoping this will act as a deterrent to them making a claim at all.
If taken to court, I plan to bring up the fact I was loading/unloading which is not mentioned on signage, the fact they kept me in the dark about the status of the PCN and whether it was cancelled, as well as the fact I have dyslexia/dyspraxia which meant I didn't notice, and wouldn't have been able to read the small print on signage.
Where would I stand considering all of the above?
Have you mentioned to the landowner that there is a strong possibility that they could be blacklisted if delivery drivers get invoices of £100 for delivering to them?
DCB Legal are going to issue a claim and you can easily defend it when it comes. Just let us know.
Of course you have the Jolson v Homeguard defence but it won’t matter. It will eventually be discontinued next year. That’s a <99% probability.