scooby

[Guest]

i need help and advice with a pcn served in 2015 from premier parks ltd. i refused to pay as i did not use a parking bay ,just picking my dad up from the back of a pub that was managed by premier parks ltd.after a paper trail of letters for 2 years i heard nothing so presumed they had given up hope of getting my hard earned cash
so ! moving forward to 2019 i received a lettr from BW legal chasing a payment for the outstanding pcn...
this is the best bit as since 2017 premier parks no longer managed the site,so they had broke contract with the landlord and landowner,the pub changed hands not long after and then closed,it is currently boarded up while shopfitters alter the premise for new business. how can they still chase me for debt when they have no contract with the pub so they are not able to give the landlord the charge money that they try to claim from me -please help!

[charitynjw]

Hi Guest/scooby

They have up to 6 years to chase an alleged debt, courtesy of the Limitation Act 1980.
Even though they are no longer patrolling/enforcing there now, if they were at the time of the alleged contravention they are within their rights to chase it.
But that is only a part of the game.
A claim now for a contravention back in 2015 can be challenged in many ways.
To begin with, google 'laches'.