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Hi Beagles :beagle:
So here how the story goes, I was parked in a gated community private car park visiting a friend who has a flat there. This gated community has an intercom at the gateway from which I assume is to let visitors enter. Now the car park seems significantly small for the amount of flats it accommodates anyway but during my visit the car park was completely Full. Assuming there were visitor spaces, they were neither clearly marked and presumably occupied. As I was only intending on a short stay I resorted to copying what other people ended up doing and parked up on the pavement (w/ very faint double yellow lines) ensuring I was no hindrance to any other vehicles. Alas, when i return to the vehicle Mr. Moneygrabber had a field day and marked us all.
Now I'm unfortunately an amateur at the whole legal rights thing etc, but perhaps I was foolish to listen to said friend when they advised to ignore everything the parking people sent me and that it would eventually go away. It is your typical Parking Charge Notice of £100(which is ridiculous!!!) discounted to £60 for the initial period. [Interesting how the neighbouring community is £70/£40 on a larger complex]. Anyway, 3 months on and now I'm getting increasingly worried after numerous more letters. I've now been past on to ZZPS Debt Recovery and apparently I'm on my last chance with them until they pass me on to Wright Hassall. It now stands at a whopping £172.
I was only hoping that after several bully letters they would give up and believed the rumours where apparently these companies give up before court due to the expenses on their behalf. However as I recently turned to the forums for information its seemingly the case where premier park are getting their act together and sending more and more people to court.
What am I to do since I don't have the time and effort to go down the court route. Am I still due the final reduced payment offer? I feel I do not have a strong enough argument against this unless you guys can tell me otherwise. I'll have a go at posting picture of what I got.
Just a little note about their pictures. You can clearly see they and rotated their sign which had only been zip-tied to the lamppost anyway, then above it shows a bigger, more informative and slightly cheaper charge from the previous operators.
Another picture shows a car in the same spot the next day with that same sign rotated the opposite way.
And I know I'm being picky but the charge is for 'No Permit on Display'. Does that mean if I had a permit I could park on double yellows!?
Any help would be most appreciated. Many Thanks.
So here how the story goes, I was parked in a gated community private car park visiting a friend who has a flat there. This gated community has an intercom at the gateway from which I assume is to let visitors enter. Now the car park seems significantly small for the amount of flats it accommodates anyway but during my visit the car park was completely Full. Assuming there were visitor spaces, they were neither clearly marked and presumably occupied. As I was only intending on a short stay I resorted to copying what other people ended up doing and parked up on the pavement (w/ very faint double yellow lines) ensuring I was no hindrance to any other vehicles. Alas, when i return to the vehicle Mr. Moneygrabber had a field day and marked us all.
Now I'm unfortunately an amateur at the whole legal rights thing etc, but perhaps I was foolish to listen to said friend when they advised to ignore everything the parking people sent me and that it would eventually go away. It is your typical Parking Charge Notice of £100(which is ridiculous!!!) discounted to £60 for the initial period. [Interesting how the neighbouring community is £70/£40 on a larger complex]. Anyway, 3 months on and now I'm getting increasingly worried after numerous more letters. I've now been past on to ZZPS Debt Recovery and apparently I'm on my last chance with them until they pass me on to Wright Hassall. It now stands at a whopping £172.
I was only hoping that after several bully letters they would give up and believed the rumours where apparently these companies give up before court due to the expenses on their behalf. However as I recently turned to the forums for information its seemingly the case where premier park are getting their act together and sending more and more people to court.
What am I to do since I don't have the time and effort to go down the court route. Am I still due the final reduced payment offer? I feel I do not have a strong enough argument against this unless you guys can tell me otherwise. I'll have a go at posting picture of what I got.
Just a little note about their pictures. You can clearly see they and rotated their sign which had only been zip-tied to the lamppost anyway, then above it shows a bigger, more informative and slightly cheaper charge from the previous operators.
Another picture shows a car in the same spot the next day with that same sign rotated the opposite way.
And I know I'm being picky but the charge is for 'No Permit on Display'. Does that mean if I had a permit I could park on double yellows!?
Any help would be most appreciated. Many Thanks.
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