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Myself and my partner used to live in one of the very few areas of our little town which had residents only parking, controlled by a private parking company "UK CAR PARK MANAGEMENT LTD"
Now because we lived there, we had 2 permits for our own space in front of the house, and 1 visitors permit for spaces which ran down the side of the street.
So, there were a few occasions where we either forgot to put the visitors permit in (we only had 1 so it wasn't practical to stick it to the windscreen), or it fell off the dashboard or whatever and we received a parking ticket.
The first couple I think we paid. Then, I read somewhere on the internet that these tickets are UNENFORCEABLE and to just ignore them and chuck them in the bin. So we did - again, and again to the point where we probably had between 15 and 20 outstanding. Anyway, turns out some law was approved that meant Private Parking company's COULD enforce them so we ended up paying them about £600 (after receiving a previous court claim form sometime last year) so as to avoid a CCJ.
That unfortunately wasn't the end of it though, as there are obviously more tickets outstanding - why they're hitting us with them in batches I've no idea. So we received 2 letters in June of this year, demanding payments of £596 - from Gladstones Solicitors, a truly obnoxious organisation to say the least who were beyond rude to my then 6 month's pregnant partner. They refused to play ball with any kind of settlement / payment plan so I said lets just ignore them and see what happens.
And what's happened is my partner has received a court claim form today, weirdly, for only £236? I've attached it to this post.
So they're obviously not happy with the £600 they already received from us, yet are so disorganised they've applied to the court for only a 10th of the amount they probably want from us.
What, if anything can we do to defend this? We've never appealed to them or Poplar (or whatever they're called).
I'd rather eat my own feet than pay this despicable bunch of cowboys a penny.
Thank you
Myself and my partner used to live in one of the very few areas of our little town which had residents only parking, controlled by a private parking company "UK CAR PARK MANAGEMENT LTD"
Now because we lived there, we had 2 permits for our own space in front of the house, and 1 visitors permit for spaces which ran down the side of the street.
So, there were a few occasions where we either forgot to put the visitors permit in (we only had 1 so it wasn't practical to stick it to the windscreen), or it fell off the dashboard or whatever and we received a parking ticket.
The first couple I think we paid. Then, I read somewhere on the internet that these tickets are UNENFORCEABLE and to just ignore them and chuck them in the bin. So we did - again, and again to the point where we probably had between 15 and 20 outstanding. Anyway, turns out some law was approved that meant Private Parking company's COULD enforce them so we ended up paying them about £600 (after receiving a previous court claim form sometime last year) so as to avoid a CCJ.
That unfortunately wasn't the end of it though, as there are obviously more tickets outstanding - why they're hitting us with them in batches I've no idea. So we received 2 letters in June of this year, demanding payments of £596 - from Gladstones Solicitors, a truly obnoxious organisation to say the least who were beyond rude to my then 6 month's pregnant partner. They refused to play ball with any kind of settlement / payment plan so I said lets just ignore them and see what happens.
And what's happened is my partner has received a court claim form today, weirdly, for only £236? I've attached it to this post.
So they're obviously not happy with the £600 they already received from us, yet are so disorganised they've applied to the court for only a 10th of the amount they probably want from us.
What, if anything can we do to defend this? We've never appealed to them or Poplar (or whatever they're called).
I'd rather eat my own feet than pay this despicable bunch of cowboys a penny.
Thank you
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