PCN from Premier Park-- what to do?

[pppr]

Hello,

 

Im swimming through a sea of forum posts trying to work out what to do about my charge notice, I decided to just post.

 

I paid for an hours parking (from memory) at a 'Premier park' car park in torquay, enter number plate in the machine (no physical ticket).

 

I then went on holiday and am back a month later, and have a PCN, stating parking session expired or unpaid. Duration 1hr 15mins.

 

its a £100 invoice, £60 discount, but was sent 29 days ago.

 

I would really appreciate advice on what to do, I was going to ignore but see the consensus is not too.

[havinastella]

You paid for 1hrs parking and went on holiday for a month?

[Stigman]

Hi & Welcome to CAG,

 

This is not a PCN, it is a speculative Invoice. A PCN comes from either the Police or Council only.

 

Ignoring now is not an option because you could very well end up having to defend a Court claim.

 

You need to appeal to whoever sent you the parking invoice and defend to them, below is a link to a posting with a template to use, amend the template letter to suit if needed.

http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?439022-TWO-Parking-Eye-successes-(with-templates)

 

It is important to ask for the POPLA code if your appeal is unsuccessful, you then appeal to POPLA on GPEOL.

 

Stigman

[pppr]

hah, re-reading it does sound like that, but no, exchanged some money, came back to the car, drove home, then went on holiday!!

[ericsbrother]

so, did this demand for your hard earned money include some nice pictures of your vehicle entering and leaving the car park or can they provide you with soem form of proof that your vehicle was actually parked for the exact time they say it was?

Also, what is the date of the letter/invoice and what day does the postmanrk say it was posted. These are important as the parking co has a very limited time to get their letters off and in your hands.

Lastly the claim is for two things, they should have made it clear what they are claiming for and they havent if the wording you have used is correct. This makes any court claim likely to fail so a POPLA appeal will often go the same way.

Tell us the dates and then we should be able to beat them nice and early into the procedures.

[armadillo71]

Hello,

 

Im swimming through a sea of forum posts trying to work out what to do about my charge notice, I decided to just post.

 

I paid for an hours parking (from memory) at a 'Premier park' car park in torquay, enter number plate in the machine (no physical ticket).

 

I then went on holiday and am back a month later, and have a PCN, stating parking session expired or unpaid. Duration 1hr 15mins.

 

its a £100 invoice, £60 discount, but was sent 29 days ago.

 

I would really appreciate advice on what to do, I was going to ignore but see the consensus is not too.

 

 

 

 

As above ,dates needed.

Date of parking event?

Date of issue on charge notice?

Date when received by RK? (if known).

 

 

How does it say you can pay the charge?

 

 

Not online I take it;

 

 

http://www.premierpark.co.uk/

 

 

Can you post up a redacted copy of the Parking Charge Notice please? ( in PDF format ).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You paid for 1hrs parking and went on holiday for a month?

 

 

[pppr]

i have an update,

 

 

I set an appeal off and have had no reply,

 

 

they have sent me a 'debt recovery letter' demanding I pay the charge by the 1st of April.

 

 

I have not been taking this very seriously but they are obviously pursuing me, so I would like to ask what my next move should be?

 

Thanks, hopefully the attached is readable and correctly censored (there are two images there)...

[dx100uk]

I'd be ditcing the barcodes and the qbox too

[ericsbrother]

DR+ the last chance saloon for the parking charge. Ignore them completely and come back here if you get another letter from Premier Park.

[pppr]

Great stuff I will take that advice, so basically if I get a court summons come back here?

 

Thank you!

[ericsbrother]

they have to write to you with their letter before action before issuing a summons. they wont unless something changes.