Private Parking Fine - I have the ticket

[mmakov]

Hi all,

My post is with regards to receiving a fine from a private company when the ticket has been purchased. The ticket is from CPS Plus and the car was parked in a train station car park. Someone else told me they had this happen to them and appealed saying their ticket fell onto the floor but was face up and therefore displayed, and the fine was dropped.

First of all what is the law on where the ticket should be displayed, or is that completely dependant on the company who issues the ticket / the terms according to the property owner?

Second, do these companies take photos of the car and could this prove indefinitely if the ticket was or was not displayed?

Lastly, would I be better off appealing using the ticket as proof (does the benifit of the doubt go to the private company) or would the template approach as per the stickied thread in this forum be the more reliable option?

I would appreciate any information so thanks in advance

[Steward]

You can use Google to search the web using these links below:-

[dx100uk]

totally ignore them
you did not sign a contract upon parking.
their 'invoice' has no legal standing.

do some reading in this forum

dx

[wheelergeezer]

There is NO appeal. Evera tried appealing about your Tesco's till bill? Ever tried appealing your gas bill? Same success rate. NIL.

IF you send in an appeal I can 100% guarantee it will be refused. You will however then have identified who the driver was - You!

Ignore them. And read this forum.

[mmakov]

Ok I have read some threads and it seems these companies are rogue companies that do not have a leg to stand on.

The company is PC Plus and the car park was at a railway, why would such large organisations use private companies, because that is their only option?

[wheelergeezer]

At a railway is NOT the same. Were you in a Railway car park?

[Neek1]

Ignore

[mmakov]

At a railway is NOT the same. Were you in a Railway car park?

Yes it was in a station car park.

[lamma]

that is not a response to the question asked. does the ticket mention Railway Bylaws ? many do but are fraudulent.

[mmakov]

I'm not sure how that isn't an answer to the question asked, he asked if it was in a railway car park, which it was so I answered yes. Railway / train station - same thing right?

I will check the ticket when I get hom and post the info. Thanks for the replies so far.

[lamma]

its in the nouns. A station and a railway are very different things. Station car park - car park located next to a station. Railway car park - car park owned by the Railway company

[mmakov]

I'm assuming the railway own the car park seeing as I bought the parking ticket from them. Also on the CP Plus website they advertise the fact that they monitor car parks for this particular railway company.

[mmakov]

I've made a big correction to my original post, the company is actually CP Plus. Here is the ticket:





Here are the signs at the car park:

[lamma]

they claim Bylaws and contract ! buffoons ! fraud I think.

[mmakov]

So do you think I should pay, appeal or ignore it?

[crem]

Ignore

[mmakov]

Ignore

So the car park being owned by the railway doesn't change things? wheelergeezer said it's not the same at a railway, so still not sure

[dx100uk]

the search bar above always seems to find the answers:

http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk...-car-park.html

dx

[sorrylittlelot]

Parking companies, man I'd love to kick them in the willy

[sorrylittlelot]

That is just my opinion and I am not advising you to follow this course of action mmakov

[mmakov]

the search bar above always seems to find the answers:

http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk...-car-park.html

dx

I have read that thread and some others but seems a few of the regular posters often start disagreeing about byelaws which leaves me unsure.

When does a byelaw actually have an effect, when the railway company issue the fine themselves or when the private company are legally permitted to enforce the law?