Parking ticket woes

[swampy]

TL:DR Got a ticket, can I get out of it on the technicality of it having the wrong address on the chitty.

Longer version: I live in a private estate (get me). Recently the estate managing agents have got a bit pissy over parking and have employed a licensed bandit to extort money out of reasonable people for parking in the road way. Usually it doesn't affect me cos I have an allocated space, but last night a friend of my wifes was in that, so I parked in what I thought was an area outside of the parking restrictions. It transpires it wasn't, and I got a ticket. So I have two questions.

1) The ticket has my reg number, time of the digression make of car etc. However, it says the location was 'Little Hackets' (the road I live in), whereas I was actually parked in 'Billys Copse'. Would this alone be reason enough to wriggle out of paying ?

2) I'm aware that the law has recently changed with regard to parking charges, clamping etc. the sage advice on here has always been to ignore non council 'fines' as there is essentially bugger all they can do abut it outside court. Is this still the case, or has the new legislation given the parking firms increased punitive powers ?

Cheers ravers.
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[Amnesty]

I was under the impression, there's not alot they can do,

How often do you hear about private parking fines going to court?
They can only take you to court over the 'fine' amount and that'll cost them more in court fees etc etc

The fact they have the wrong address, well, I don't know about that I'm afraid, you can try and cling to it and lie and say " i was on my own road " if that's allowed.

Generally speaking you get threats and threats and unless they're sub-contracted by the council, it's a long winded battle for you coming up against threatening letters and potentially baylifs coming to your door.

depends how pushy they are.
but the fact you live in the private estate, i dont know how it works, have you signed or agreed to anything in regards to parking in allocated spaces only? if you have, then you might be in a bit of trouble as you've technically breached your contract with the private state guys.

Sorry I know it's not much help, just my opinion.
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[soforene]

Ignore.
The change in the law means that the Registered Keeper must now tell the scumbags who was driving.
Then they can ignore.
Or go through the complaints procedure via POPLA which costs the parking scumbags £32.
And once they have found against you (which they will cus they are in the pocket of the BPA) you can then continue to ignore.

See https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/forumdisplay.php?f=163 for more info.

[yaigi]

Don't pay it. It's a private ticket. You can pretty much always get our of paying a private ticket. This site has more info as I'm too lazy to type about it at the moment:

https://www.ticketfighter.co.uk/private.htm
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[Skudd]

Basics are as I see it,

Council = Appeal, if you don't win pay up.

Private = Ignore until an actual court calls for you then go and appeal against their stupidity.
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