BBC DIY FORUM
Private Parking tickets – are you worried about them?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11267103
The BBC is acting rather like the Daily Mail here, creating a scare story. If you are not clamped (which will be illegal soon) you can more or less ignore these daft DIY tickets.
here is aforum helping people who get one
http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?119802-Private-Parking-Tickets-Template-Letters
http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?119802-Private-Parking-Tickets-Template-Letters
I got one last year on private land. Cheeky ****er was already parked on double yellows in front of me, and when I got out my car I saw him manoeuvring back and forth. I thought he couldn’t get his car out even though there was loads of space and even went across and offered to move my car for him but he said ‘It’s OK’.
I went across the road and he jumps out and sticks parking tickets on the car in front of him and my car behind. He wore no uniform had no ID. He had been manoeuvring his car so he could read my Number plate to put it on the ticket not because he couldn’t get out the space! There were over 50 cars parked on the double yellows, but he only did the cars in front of him and behind, jumped into his unmarked VW golf, said ‘there was nothing he could do because it was issued, and shot off before someone put a brick through his window.
It was something like a £90 fine which doubled if you didn’t pay within 14 days, and the ultimate sanction none payment would lead to your details being put on a bad creditors list, effecting your credit rating .
I found a good website which explained that parking tickets are unenforceable on private land, and despite several threatening letters refused to pay. They eventually gave up.
I think this will be the big threat that they will use to get people to pay tickets, threaten to report none payment to credit agencies, scaring people into paying fines which are illegal.
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