County Court Claim for parking charge notice - Help appreciated!

[JayEmBee]

I have recently received a county court claim for a parking charge notice. I submitted an acknowledgment of service on 9/11/18. This is the first correspondence that I have received regarding this parking charge and I have no idea what it's for and what terms I have supposedly 'breached'. The claim form doesn't specify the exact location (the address stated is quite a large area on a local business park) but I believe this is for the local Tesco car park for which there is no charge and I have never stayed there beyond the 3 hours free parking so I'm at a bit of a loss with how to defend this. Any help would be appreciated. The claimant is Parking Control Management and Gladstones Solicitors are their representatives. The claim form states the following:

"The driver of the vehicle registration XXXXXXX (the 'Vehicle') incurred the parking charge(s) on 09/05/2018 for breaching the terms of parking on the land at XXXXXXXXXXX. The defendant was driving the Vehicle and/or is the keeper of the Vehicle. AND THE CLAIMANT CLAIMS £160 for Parking Charges / Damages and indemnity costs if applicable, together with interest of £5.34 pursuant to s69 of the County Courts Act 1984 at 8% pa, continuing to Judgment at £0.04 per day."

The total with costs comes to £240.34 and as I said I have received no notice of this prior to the court papers so I haven't had a chance to appeal it so any help would be appreciated.

[ostell]

So first thing is a SAR to PCM requesting all the documents that the hold about you. You won't get them in time for the defence but it will help later on.

You have 33 days from the date of issue of the claim to get your defence to the court so it could be a bit tight or you may have missed the date completely and left yourself open to a default judgment. With your acknowledgement did you also submit a defence? If so what was it?

Your defence will be unclear particulars of claim as they have not given what the breach was and they do not know wither they are claiming against the keeper or the driver.

You do not have to tell them who was driving so don't even infer it. As the keeper they have failed to send a Notice to keeper within the required 14 days to hold the keeper liable.

They have also failed to state where the alleged breach occurred so you as the keeper cannot possibly know what happened.

Look at other defences written this year on here and on Pepipoo forum.

Post up here for critique before you send.