Euro Car Park Fine

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Hello all

Need some advice regarding a fine from private company euro car parks

I've told received a letter in the post from 'debt recovery plus' saying I owe £170 for w PCN issued by euro car parks back in June...

I never received a parking ticket or a letter in the post stating I had to pay any PCN to start with, and now this has apparently gone up to £170 and been handed over to this debt company?

My question is, can I just ignore this as I've read online euro car parks is a huge scam and they can't legally even make you pay these fines? I would've probably paid it ha do received the first PCN in the first place but I apparently now owe £170 it just seems bizarre to me??

I don't want to ignore as I don't want it to double again and I can't find anywhere to appeal to this debt company the line just rings a and rings...

Has anybody recently (2019/2020) had any experience with these 2 companies?

Thanks

I'm following this as I received a ticket from Euro car parks recently too...

Id try and find out when the parking offence took place? If this was sent in June when did the parking offence take place?

I bet they've been quite during lockdown with no one parking away from home

you can't ignore it though as the law was changed a few years back

Is there an email or postal address? You need to ask them for details of the 'offence' in the first instance as they should be able to send you a photo of your car with details of the date/time/place.

It could be that they've written to you and it's got lost in the post but without any details of what they saying you've done, you don't know if it's worth appealing, which it may be if there's no signage (I got out of one because there was absolutely no indication that the apparently normal road that I'd parked on was a private road).

Have you any idea what you might have done? Sadly if you've overstayed, parked somewhere you shouldn't have, or not paid in a pay car park (I did this once, waited about 15 minutes while picking DP up from the station and stopped in a nearby empty car park as the train was delayed, no station parking available and yellow lines everywhere else, I didn't even get out of the car and it never occurred to me to pay) then you probably have no choice but to pay as otherwise you face potentially years of them increasing the charge and threats before it eventually gets to court, where you may or may not win, but you'll probably be left thinking that you wish you'd paid up earlier on in the process.

You need to pay the parking fines. I got the letters in the post to my home address and ignored them. Big mistake. It has now cost me £500 and they are going to court. My lawyer has tried to defend these kind of cases before and lost every time. There was a court case a few years ago and operators can take you to court and almost always win. Do not waste more time and money. Pay the fine from the start and move on with your life.

Do a subject access request with the debt collectors and euro park. That should give you enough information to know if or how to argue it.