Regents Parking ANPR PCN - QCP - Queensway Car Park Queensway Lon W2 4RE

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I was sent a speculative invoice from this parking company stating that I never paid for a parking ticket in their car park.

 

I appealed the charge and stated that they had no evidence of me going into their car park which is several units up the road from where I did park.

 

I stopped in the early hours to grab a hot drink from a 24hr cafe and parked in a bay on Queensway.

 

There were no signs stating it was pay and display, that it was private property which in my knowledge still is a public highway under Westminster Council.

 

The signage was loading bay only and did state that this was allowed between the hours of 7.30am - midday.

 

I didn’t think at 3am that I would be ticketed by a warden unbeknown to me as there was no signage that CCTV was in operation.
 

In essence, my appeal was rejected and I received a bizarre call from their solicitor stating he was going to escalate it to the courts.

 

I stated that my position remained the same and I wasn’t prepared to answer more questions over the phone and the matter must be conducted in writing.

 

I’ve received another threatening letter (please refer to attachment)  

 

ANSWERS TO YOUR SET OF QUESTIONS: 

 

1 Date of the infringement 06/04/2022 04:04:07

 

2 Date on the NTK [this must have been received within 14 days from the 'offence' date] 08/4/2022 

 

3 Date received 13/04/2022 

 

4 Does the NTK mention schedule 4 of The Protections of Freedoms Act 2012? N

 

5 Is there any photographic evidence of the event? Yes

 

6 Have you appealed? yes - unfortunately the appeal was submitted online and I do not have a copy of it suffice to say it was sent off three days after receiving the original notice. In the appeal I state that the confirmation did not occur because I did not park the car in the car park.

 

Have you had a response?   yes - he's came in the form of a phone call from the alleged solicitor. No written formal rejection has been received.

 

7 Who is the parking company? SolutionsLab via Regents Parking

 

8. Where exactly [carpark name and town] Its is stated that I was parked in Queensway Car Park which isn’t strictly accurate as they are situated on 26 Queensway and is a purpose built car park whereas I was parked in a bay approximately opposite 37 Queensway, Central London W2 4QJ  

 

For either option, does it say which appeals body they operate under.

POFA2012 and IAS
 

I received a phone call allegedly from the solicitor who warned me this would go to court to retrieve if I didn’t pay.

 

I said that I wasn’t in their car park, the photo evidence is clear to which he replied that the parking bays are also considered as part of their car park.

 

The street signs make no reference to paying parking, if anything they say new street restrictions and state only loading between the hours of 7am - midday allowed.

 

I also received a letter dated the 10tJune 2022 from CSB solicitors based in London.

Queensway LBCA_CSB Solicitors REDACTED.pdf

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The first thing to say is that I assumed that this area was monitored by Westminster Council and when I looked up parking it didn’t say anything about Regents Parking being involved and in fact there are paid bays further down that the council oper 

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Operates and at reasonable more standard times.

 

The zone is B3 and the exact spot I exact spot is here:

 

https ://goo.gl/maps/15h8o5YNRtPai28y5

 

There are signs but the time was 3am and I definitely wasn’t more than 15mins as I popped into Dr Power to buy a take-away coffee which was recorded as being 3.49.

 

Surely the point here is that the contravention says I never bought a ticket for parking in their car park and they’ve no evidence of me parking in their car park.

 

How they’ve got my number I don’t know.

 

The ‘solicitor’ stated that the bay on Queensway is an extension of their car park.

 

I can’t see how that is legally possible, nor is that compatible with this street being monitored by Westminster Council. 

(Other forums eg MSE 2 Feb 2021, an almost identical complaint from a driver who did as u did also got threats of court action and was put down to it being a scam.)

 

The concern I now have is how this has been now been referred onto dcbl (Debt Collection Bailiffs Ltd).
 

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Queensway Fine- Dcbl letter.pdf