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Ticket for parking on my land--Please help, Debt Collection for X2 Parking Charge Notices
ollie-ollie
post Fri, 16 Feb 2018 - 15:08
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Hi Guys,

I would massively appreciate any help that you can give me.

I am renting a flat in London that comes with an allocated parking space, a space which our landlord pays £5000 to use. At the end of 2017 I received 2 parking tickets on different dates for not displaying a valid permit.
The permit was essentially loose and slipped down from the window on both occasions. There is no requirement in our lease to display a valid car parking permit, and even though I felt that it was unfair to have to display a permit I decided to regardless until the 2 occasions when the permit fell down. Upon further inspection I can also see that the same parking warden allocated both tickets on different dates which strikes me as a bit odd as I park my car in the same space often and he/she would have undoubtedly seen my car there with a valid permit previously and still decided to give me a ticket/invoice as I now understand it too be.

I have read countless forums and I am still uneasy about the idea of going to court should it come to that. I decided not to appeal after reading some of the forums and the advice from many to ignore the tickets vs appeal based on the grounds and advice that the parking warden was trespassing on the land that we are renting from our landlord.

Things have now escalated and we are receiving solicitor letters from Gladstones looking to reclaim the increased amount in both cases. I feel very strongly that this is an innocent mistake and that ultimately we have parked within our allocated space, space allocated to our landholder by the freeholder and our being penalised for doing so. What are the chances of them taking the case to court and winning?

Any help/suggestions would be much appreciated. I have searched through plenty of threads and not found a case as yet like mine.

Ollie
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Redivi
post Thu, 22 Mar 2018 - 12:51
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I can see what's happened

DRP sent you one of their fake solicitor letters on Gladstones headed notepaper
Gladstones has just confirmed it

That's going to create an interesting situation if UKCPM uses Gladstones to issue a claim
I would now go into "Ignore" mode unless you receive a genuine Letter Before Claim

Save your bombshell for a defence statement if it's needed

This suggests a new tactic for the DRP fake Gladstones letters
Sending a copy and asking for confirmation that it's genuine is always ignored

Sending a reply to Gladstones denying the debt produces a "what letter" response
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ollie-ollie
post Fri, 23 Mar 2018 - 18:06
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Redivi this is beyond interesting and I hadn't picked up on it. I have sent them the DRP reference through and hope it isn't a problem that I did. Do you think this fake letter act will stand up in court and do you or anyone else have reference to any previous court wins like this one?

My main concern at this present moment is that we intend to leave the country by the start of August and would need to get a court decision before then. How would you guys proceed in this case? The last thing I want to do is to pay up for parking on my land but I equally don't want to be flying back from Asia to deal with this.

Ollie

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post Fri, 23 Mar 2018 - 21:45
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Is this leave leave or just for a short while
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ollie-ollie
post Sat, 24 Mar 2018 - 19:26
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Hey Ostell,

Thanks for the reply.

This will more than likely be leave leave vs just a short while. My girlfriend and I plan to spend several months travelling & working in different countries around the world. We are digital nomads so to speak with our own online businesses wink.gif

Ollie
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post Sat, 24 Mar 2018 - 20:00
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Just thinking aloud but if nothing is resolved by the time you go then give them notice of your new adress if you can. Out of the reach of UK courts.
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post Tue, 27 Mar 2018 - 07:11
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Indeed, you just tell them your new address for service.
Explicitly state this is the address for service. Outside of the UK they havent got a hope of launching any successful action, as the UK court would need to be persuaded that this is reasonable. Gladstones wnot go through the hoops necessary.

You MUST ensure they have an address for service you can be contacted at. EVen if this is an oerseas relative, that can open and scan documents to you.
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