Is it illegal to have fake number plates on a car in a private car park?

[VivaLeBeaver]

Related to parking issues/tickets at work.

If I buy an old banger, get some magnetic number plates made up, sell the car to a scrap yard and SORN it with the DVLA.

Then drive my proper car to work, park in an illegal space and put my magnetic number plates on the car - can I legally get into trouble with the police for having fake plates on the car? I wouldn't drive the car on the highway with fake plates. No CCTV at work.

One of my colleagues, her dh is a solicitor and he says the company wouldn't have a leg to stand on if they took anyone to court. He says we could sue for breach of contract. By paying a monthly fee for a permt We are paying for a service (space) that we aren't getting.

Could you ask him how we can get the CCJ removed? We thought that the fine was unenforceable, but the first we knew was when the letter re about the CCJ came through the post, then the credit limit DH's credit card was reduced.

I would be grateful for your friend's opinion.

It is an NHS Trust and a private parking company.

I really have to go to bed now, but will look at this again tomorrow.

I will ask her to ask him when I see her next. Is the company total parking solutions?

I also read that the company can't make you tell them who was driving the car. Their issue is with the driver not the owner. So I got the impression you could just say you weren't driving it.

The Trust has a record of car numbers and employee details.

I guess DH's case is different from yours - his parking pass had fallen off the dashboard, so he got a ticket for not displaying it. His gripe was the fact that the Trust KNEW that he had a pass, they were deducting his payment for parking directly from his salary, but he still got taken to court.

Until this happened, we thought the parking company couldn't enforce the fine.

He still hasn't paid it (he is very stubborn); but still has the CCJ against his name.

I can't remember the name of the parking company - they are employed by the Trust though.

How often are you getting fines? When I was working for the NHS it worked out cheaper for me to not pay for a permit and just pay the fines when they came.

They're there every day slapping tickets on people. Nearly everyone at work has at least one of not two tickets and they only started a few weeks ago.

I think I'd get a ticket every day if I didn't have a permit.

I don't know the answers Viva but I do think it is a very poor way to treat staff. I hope someone can help. Are there any park and ride sites near the hospital? That was ds's way round the ridiculous parking permit situation when he worked at our local hospital.

No, beacuse it could be taken as cloning.
SAy you had to leave work in an emergency and forgot to take off the plates and got pinged by APNR, or had a bump and had to exchange details etc.

As a worst case senario you could be prosecuted for PCOJ

I can see it's a shit situation for you and can't see a way around it.

No park and ride. Public transport from my village is zero as far as shift times go. Plus I have to lug bags, equipment, etc to work quite frequently.