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Gladstones Solicitors
I April I used the car park at the back of what was Morrison's in Wootton Bassett for approx 20mins at about 7:30pm to get some fish and chips from across the road.
The sign that was flapping about in the wind hanging over the back wall of the car apark was largely unreadable as the car park isn't lit but it did notice that it stated that you were entitled in big bold letters to 30mins free parking. having parked on the left hand side of the car park where there are no additional signs I parked,returned and thought nothing of it until I received an claim for £100 from Premier Parks Looking online the common advice was to ignore these as they have no right to claim anything so I did just that.
The claim was then upped to £150 by debtrecorveryplus and subsequently "sold" to Zenith Collections who then offered a discount to £99. I continued to ignore this.
I have today received a letter from Gladstones demanding the £150 or they will start court proceedings.
From what I can see the issue is purely that i failed to input my registration number into a machine which I didn't realised i needed to do. I presume this requirement was part of the deal with Morrisons who occupied the site beforehand but subsequently moved out. They have used ANPR but have stated that quite clearly that i did not exceed the 30min limit.
Are the owners/management companies allowed to insist on you doing this and if you fail to comply with unimportant rules then issue with what is effect an exorbitant fine even tho you didn't exceed the 30min free parking offer? As we appealed through POPLA too late they declined to appeal on our behalf.
I haven't disclosed who was driving at the time to either debt recovery company. The letter from Gladstones doesn't state the nature of the offence for which they are claiming just that I supposedly owe the claimant Premier Parks Ltd and should pay debtrecoveryuk although the land is apparently privately owned.
Your thoughts would be appareciated.
Cheers
The sign that was flapping about in the wind hanging over the back wall of the car apark was largely unreadable as the car park isn't lit but it did notice that it stated that you were entitled in big bold letters to 30mins free parking. having parked on the left hand side of the car park where there are no additional signs I parked,returned and thought nothing of it until I received an claim for £100 from Premier Parks Looking online the common advice was to ignore these as they have no right to claim anything so I did just that.
The claim was then upped to £150 by debtrecorveryplus and subsequently "sold" to Zenith Collections who then offered a discount to £99. I continued to ignore this.
I have today received a letter from Gladstones demanding the £150 or they will start court proceedings.
From what I can see the issue is purely that i failed to input my registration number into a machine which I didn't realised i needed to do. I presume this requirement was part of the deal with Morrisons who occupied the site beforehand but subsequently moved out. They have used ANPR but have stated that quite clearly that i did not exceed the 30min limit.
Are the owners/management companies allowed to insist on you doing this and if you fail to comply with unimportant rules then issue with what is effect an exorbitant fine even tho you didn't exceed the 30min free parking offer? As we appealed through POPLA too late they declined to appeal on our behalf.
I haven't disclosed who was driving at the time to either debt recovery company. The letter from Gladstones doesn't state the nature of the offence for which they are claiming just that I supposedly owe the claimant Premier Parks Ltd and should pay debtrecoveryuk although the land is apparently privately owned.
Your thoughts would be appareciated.
Cheers
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