Got a parking charge in from Lymm services, do you have to pay this?
Not really. Have a look on www.pepipoo.com
You don’t have to pay it but they can take the registered keeper of the vehicle to court for non-payment.
Conor:
You don’t have to pay it but they can take the registered keeper of the vehicle to court for non-payment.
Only if they comply with POFA 2012, to pursue keeper liability.
They won’t take you to court.
It’s not profitable to do so.
It doesn’t matter who the registered keeper of the vehicle is, they’ve got to prove who parked it and they can’t.
Blame the government who have allowed your private details to be given out by the DVLA to a bunch of money grubbing twisters. These ‘parking’ firms are nothing more than con artists.
yourhavingalarf:
They won’t take you to court.
CP Plus are not currently known to be litigious, however Parking Eye are. As this PCN is from CP Plus, it’s probably safe to ignore it.
Harry Monk:
yourhavingalarf:
They won’t take you to court.CP Plus are not currently known to be litigious, however Parking Eye are. As this PCN is from CP Plus, it’s probably safe to ignore it.
Not sure if I have mentioned this before but a couple months ago I got a demand for £200 from Parking Eye for exceeding the 30 minutes parking by 2 mins at a Lydl shop in London . Thing is I live near Elgin, was away at work and had sold the car 3 months previously, DVLA confirmed the car was no longer registered in my name.
raymundo:
Not sure if I have mentioned this before but a couple months ago I got a demand for £200 from Parking Eye for exceeding the 30 minutes parking by 2 mins at a Lydl shop in London .
This is why I despise these companies, and mess them around as much as possible. They are rip-off merchants, pure and simple, they are right down there with our travelling friends who charge an old biddy £10,000 to mend her roof.
Martin Lewis posted an article about this recently. He basically said do not pay, you don’t have to.
If it’s CP Plus, ignore them, they are a bunch of cowboy, money-grabbing parasites. I was given a ticket from CP Plus, for allegedly using the park and ride at a large shopping centre, and my elderly grandparents received one for parking in a disabled bay at a supermarket, due to that my grandma’s blue disabled badge wasn’t fully visible. We ignored them both, because they are not an authority, and cannot force you to pay them. Neither of us received any contact from CP Plus. I was even told not to appeal to them, as then you are acknowledging receipt of the charge.
Only the authorities, such as the council or the police can issue a “fine” or “penalty”, commonly referred to on their tickets as “PCNs” or “Penalty Charge Notices”. CP Plus aren’t an authority, and they can’t legally issue you with a fine or penalty, so they mimic the official, yellow parking fine slips, and use the phrase “Parking Charge Notice”. They’re basically invoices, so you have a right not to pay an invoice.
They use fear to get people to pay, and those who aren’t savvy will just pay-up. People see the yellow slip, and they s*** themselves! but the reality is you mad aswell use it as toilet paper. As far as I know, CP Plus haven’t ever taken anyone to court, probably because it will cost them more in fees than it would cost to recover their £80 or whatever.
We’ve ignored two of them, so I would say it is definitely safe to ignore them.
Thanks for the advice, il bin them in the morning, its a bit of a joke £100 of a charge to park in a service area so you can be eyed up to be robbed
Private parking fines fair says Supreme Court ruling
04 November 2015
Parking fines issued by private companies have been ruled as fair and proportionate by the Supreme Court in a judgement handed down today.
(copied from the Which magazine)
raymundo:
Private parking fines fair says Supreme Court ruling04 November 2015
Parking fines issued by private companies have been ruled as fair and proportionate by the Supreme Court in a judgement handed down today.
(copied from the Which magazine)
Yes, it is true that it has become much harder to have privately issued parking “fines” overturned at a POPLA appeal following the Beavis case, however CP Plus do not currently take cases to court. The OP can typically expect a series of increasingly strident reminders from CP Plus, then a series of increasingly strident letters from a company called Debt Management Plus, with increasing amounts of SCARY RED WRITING IN UPPERCASE LETTERS but if these are ignored then they eventually give up.
raymundo:
Private parking fines fair says Supreme Court ruling04 November 2015
Parking fines issued by private companies have been ruled as fair and proportionate by the Supreme Court in a judgement handed down today.
(copied from the Which magazine)
That case was quite specific and although the parking companies love to quote it at every opprtunity it doesn’t apply to most circumstances.
If people hate these parking charge notices so much then why do they take the ■■■■ and then cry about the threatening letters. Move on before two hours is up, or pay up.
Anyone choosing to park at Lymm deserves all they get, including a sore bottom in the lavatories.
But you can no longer use the defence at a POPLA appeal that £200 is a disproportionate charge for overstaying two minutes in a Lidl car park because the Supreme Court ruled that private parking companies can impose whatever penalties they choose.
I receive PCNs frequently,Iignore them ,but I am in sunny Scotland where the rules are different.