Parking Eye ANPR PCN PAPLOC - dismissed appeal 15mins stay after 10pm - Colne Road, Clacton on Sea

[FTMDave]

Please complete this.

 

The more information we have the more we can undermine their claim

 

https://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/topic/391121-have-you-received-a-parking-ticket/

 

[FTMDave]

you need to reply to PE with a suitable snotty letter.  Use our search function and post up a draft of something you think suitable.

[FTMDave]

15 minutes ago, Fringer said:

Sorry I'm not very good at this

That makes two of us!

 

I remember the first time I had to upload something to the site, I was sure I'd mess it up due to how useless I was.  Fortunately whoever wrote the instructions had done so so clearly that amazingly it worked.  Just read the instructions.

 

As HB says, no rush.

 

When you have time also post up a draft of a snotty letter.

 

 

[FTMDave]

Everyone on this site has made mistakes in legal cases, the important thing is to learn from them for the future.

 

You really should keep copies of all correspondence when you're in legal dispute.  We now have to try to guess what you put in an important communication.

 

Can you remember if you outed yourself as the driver?

 

Does your OH still work in the same place?  Can he gets photos of the signage in the car park at night so we see the signs as you saw them?

 

I'm trying to think of how to undermine PE's case but we haven't got much to go on.

 

[FTMDave]

OK, understood.

 

if it's easy for you, yes, please get photos of the signage at night.  Signs at the entrance to the car park are particularly important.

 

Don't park in the damn place though this time!

 

 

[FTMDave]

Superb work.

 

Watch out that PENAULTY Notices apply though

[FTMDave]

Ethel is right.  Try to find out from your ex or from other staff in the restaurant how staff parking works.

[FTMDave]

Well done.

 

We moaned at you for appealing but ironically that could go in your favour.

 

So they "correctly" issued you with a ticket when you didn't pay.  You then informed them you were collecting a member of staff, and as they have a system in place for staff to be exempt from their scheme, they should have cancelled the ticket.  That is common sense. 

 

The problem of course is that PPCs don't do common sense and spend their time thinking up absurd rules for motorists to break so that they can issue their invoices.

 

 

[FTMDave]

The logging of the registration number is not something set out in an Act of Parliament!  It's simply an internal system they have to stop staff members getting tickets.  When you explained you were picking up a member of staff they could have cancelled your ticket but chose not to, because they never do and are only interested in £££££.

 

You need to reply with a snotty letter otherwise they are highly likely to take you to court.  How about -

 

Dear Parking Eye,

 

Re: PCN no. XXXXX

 

cheers for your Letter Before Claim.  I creased up at the idea you thought I would actually take such tripe seriously and cough up!

 

You know full well that I was picking up a member of staff and had every right to park in the staff spaces so I'm not paying you a bean.

 

If you want a good thrashing in court then bring it on, I will enjoy getting an unreasonable costs under CPR 27.14(2)(g) and spending it all on a foreign holiday now we can all travel again, while all the time laughing at you.

 

I look forward to your deafening silence.

 

Now, we don't usually advise including how you would defend a claim in the snotty letter, but in your case I have done so as you've already stated your reasons in an appeal.  However, hang on and see what the other regulars have to say in the course of the the day.

 

It's interesting that PE are demanding £100.  Usually at LoC stage all the PPCs make up extra money we call the Unicorn Food Tax and demand £160.  In their LoC was there a reply pack or similar?

[FTMDave]

Send the letter off exactly as in post 29 by 2nd class post and get a free Certificate of Posting from the post office.

[FTMDave]

No problem, it will still get there and have the same effect - hopefully of leaving you in peace and instead going after some mug more likely to cough up.

[FTMDave]

Hopefully they'll crawl back under their stone and you never will!

[FTMDave]

Open.

[FTMDave]

This after Parking Eye have already sent a Letter of Claim and been snotty lettered in response.

 

You told them to go ahead and do court and so ...

 

... they've got you to open an envelope.

[FTMDave]

Begging letter - relax & ignore.

[FTMDave]

More relaxing & more ignoring.

[FTMDave]

Unless it's a Letter of Claim, safe to ignore.

[FTMDave]

Any update?