Please help - Vehicle Control Services, Advice needed |
Please help - Vehicle Control Services, Advice needed |
Mon, 9 Apr 2018 - 17:19
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Member Group: Members Posts: 52 Joined: 9 Apr 2018 Member No.: 97,439 |
Hello all
Please can anyone what to do in this situation and hear me out. My girlfriend and I currently live together in a flat with secure resident parking looked after by VCS. Lived here for over a year and they sent out new permit disc for 2018 mid December time. I put it in the glove box for safe keeping and forgot to swap it over - obviously an oversight on my part and on 23rd February this year I find a PCN on windscreen for not displaying valid permit. A letter was also sent to girlfriend's home address in Blackpool (as this registered address of vehicle). I decided to appeal and my GF's sister sends me the reference number and I appeal. They reduce the fine from £100 to £20 which I paid on time. Then this week GF receives another letter saying the fine hasn't been paid. I rang them up confused and it seems that fine that I appealed and paid was actually for a PCN given on 20th of February (of which we were unaware as the windscreen notice must have been removed by someone else). As soon as we saw the windscreen notice on 23rd February we immediately put the correct permit on display. In summary, they gave one PCN on 20th Feb of which we were unaware then gave another one on the 23rd February. Letter from PCN20th arrives in post a week later and reference used to appeal as we assumed it was for PCN23rd of which we were aware. They are asking me for a separate £100 now meaning I will have to pay £120 in total for making one mistake and parking outside my own flat in a very under-subscribed car park. One letter was received notifying us of PCN20 on the 1st March but no other letter arrived making us aware of PCN23rd - basically we should have had 2 separate PCN letters within the same week - we only received one. Any help would be welcome! |
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Sat, 16 Feb 2019 - 17:40
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Member Group: Members Posts: 6,898 Joined: 15 Dec 2007 From: South of John O'Groats, north of Cape Town. Member No.: 16,066 |
Do it now. If you don't, you only get 14 days to get your defence in.
Leave the defence box totally empty; do not contest jurisdiction. -------------------- Cabbyman 11 PPCs 0
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Sat, 16 Feb 2019 - 17:40
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Sat, 16 Feb 2019 - 17:47
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Member Group: Members Posts: 4,126 Joined: 31 Jan 2018 Member No.: 96,238 |
The court assumes it arrived five days after issue
You have 14 days from that date That's purely for your information and not advice to be followed You acknowledge service as soon as possible You wouldn't be the first OP to put the claim form to one side where it will be forgotten or lost The result will be a default judgment |
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