I have just been sent £ 170 fine for not having paid a parking ticket… Six years ago | Conduct
I received two letters from National Parking Enfurcement LTD (NPE) requiring £ 170 to have failed “to properly use a machine to pay and display” In a parking lot six years ago. He does not specify what I did wrongly – I suppose that I made a typing fault when entering my car reg because the buttons on the machines are so faded and bone and zeros seem identical.
I am told that I face the courtyard and a damaged credit rating If I don't get out.
ML, Fakenham
It seems that NPE rushes to recover the money before the chronometer decreases. Private parking operators must issue a ticket within 14 days of the alleged ticket in the event of sending by post.
If it is saved on your windshield and you do not pay, the operator has 56 additional days to send a notice to your personal address. You say that you have never received notice and that you were not aware of the alleged debt until the arrival of legal threats.
Private parking charges are not legally enforceable without judgment of the county court, and the limitation period prohibits the action of the court once six years.
The requests you have received were sent a few days before the six years increase and the deadline has since expired. In addition, NPE did not provide proof that you have violated the terms and conditions.
When you demanded details and proof of what you did, it repeated, robotically, that you used the machine incorrectly. He told me that he could not discuss the cases with a third party and refused to answer if, and when he issued a parking notice and why he did not follow earlier.
I believe that a court would take a weak vision, even if she agreed to hear the case, so you might probably ignore it. But if you are worried, I suggest you write to the NPE by declaring that you will not pay less that it does not provide all these details on a specific date.
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