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Re: Debt Collectors due to not receiving the private parking
charge - disabled driver
DIR By: DWMB2
Date: December 16, 2025, 6:56 am
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We cannot advise on correspondence we haven't seen - please show
us a copy.
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Re: Debt Collectors due to not receiving the private parking
charge - disabled driver
DIR By: Dannyboy71
Date: December 16, 2025, 9:15 am
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I'm not sure how i can attach teh letter :-\
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Re: Debt Collectors due to not receiving the private parking
charge - disabled driver
DIR By: jfollows
Date: December 16, 2025, 9:30 am
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It’s in
HTML https://www.ftla.uk/private-parking-tickets/read-this-first-private-parking-charges-forum-guide/<br
/>which you’ve been pointed to already,
specifically
HTML https://www.ftla.uk/announcements/posting-images/#new
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Re: Debt Collectors due to not receiving the private parking
charge - disabled driver
DIR By: Dannyboy71
Date: December 16, 2025, 10:39 am
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Oh Ok, i have read the link but this is in response to an
ongoing issue, that has been going on for several months so not
really sure what i'm supposed to do next now that I've received
teh CCJ and was advised to come back once teh CCJ was received
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Re: Debt Collectors due to not receiving the private parking
charge - disabled driver
DIR By: DWMB2
Date: December 16, 2025, 12:24 pm
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Which you have done, and now we're asking to see what you have
received, which the links jfollows has sent tell you how to do.
We asked you to come back when you received a claim form, so I
hope you haven't received a CCJ...
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Re: Debt Collectors due to not receiving the private parking
charge - disabled driver
DIR By: mickR
Date: December 16, 2025, 1:30 pm
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im guessing hes received a count court claim not a ccj but
unfortunately im not mystic meg.
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Re: Debt Collectors due to not receiving the private parking
charge - disabled driver
DIR By: b789
Date: December 16, 2025, 7:20 pm
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OP, of you are calling an N1SDT Claim Form a CCJ, then you
obviously have no clue about the process and are low-hanging
fruit on the gullible tree ripe for the picking by these
unregulated firms.
I suggest you try and follow the advice and show us this
supposed “CCJ” you think you have received. If it is a CCJ, you
have missed several vital steps in to the process. If it is just
an N1SDT Claim Form, get your act together and either follow the
instructions for showing the “CCJ” or whatever it is.
Just to assist you in trying to understand what you may have
actually received, have a read of this article:
--- Quote ---
> These unregulated private parking firms and their pet debt
collectors thrive on one thing: the public’s ignorance of how
County Court claims and CCJs actually work. They know that if
they can make you believe that “a claim” or a “debt recovery”
letter somehow wrecks your credit rating, you will panic and pay
them. The gullible tree is full of low-hanging fruit, and they
make a very good living shaking it.
>
> Here is the reality, which you should read and take a “life
lesson” from...
>
> A Parking Charge Notice (PCN) from a private firm is not a
fine. It is just a speculative invoice for an alleged breach of
contract by the driver. At that stage, nothing touches your
credit file.
>
> If you are not successful in appealing the PCN – and appeals
are almost never successful at the initial stage and rarely at
the secondary, supposedly “independent” (but not) appeal – most
low-hanging fruit do not understand that those decisions are not
binding on them and they should never just pay. Many do,
however, because they are ignorant of the process and fearful of
imaginary consequences.
>
> If you then get “debt recovery” letters from so-called debt
collectors, those are just more speculative invoices dressed up
in scary language designed to prey on your ignorance and fear.
Debt collectors have no legal powers whatsoever to come to your
door, take goods, or report anything to credit reference
agencies. You could receive fifty of those letters and your
credit rating would be unchanged.
>
> As part of the modus operandi of these unregulated firms, the
next formal step is usually a Letter of Claim (LoC). That is
just a threat that they may start a County Court claim. Even
then, your credit record is still untouched. It is simply a
threat of legal action, not the result of it. Just more attempts
to intimidate the low-hanging fruit on the gullible tree into
paying out of ignorance and fear.
>
> Only if they go ahead and issue a County Court claim do you
enter the court (judicial) process. A Claim Form comes from the
court, not from a useless and powerless debt collector. Getting
a claim issued against you does not, by itself, affect your
credit rating. A claim is simply an allegation that you owe
money. You have the right to defend it. As long as you read your
post, acknowledge the claim in time, and either defend it or
settle it, your credit file remains untouched.
>
> A County Court Judgment (CCJ) only arises if the court
actually makes a judgment against you. That happens either
because you defended and were unsuccessful at a hearing, or
because you ignored the claim and the parking firm got judgment
in default. Even then, you still have a crucial safety net that
the low-hanging fruit do not realise exists. If you pay the full
judgment sum within 30 days of the date of judgment, the CCJ is
not registered on your credit file. It is expunged completely
from the record. It is as if it never happened as far as lenders
are concerned.
>
> A CCJ only appears on your credit record if you fail to pay
within that 30-day window. That is the point at which it gets
recorded and can affect your ability to obtain credit. Up to
that point, no amount of tickets, no stack of debt recovery
letters, no Letter of/Before Claim, and not even the issuing of
a County Court claim has any impact on your credit history.
>
> Bailiffs are a separate step again. They cannot simply be sent
because you have ignored an unregulated private parking invoice
or a useless debt recovery letter. Bailiffs (enforcement agents)
only become relevant after there is a CCJ and it has not been
paid.
>
> For most smaller PCN CCJs, it is not even worth the creditor’s
time and cost to instruct bailiffs, especially when the amount
is under Ł600 and stuck in the slower County Court enforcement
system. But the key point is this: no unpaid CCJ, no lawful
bailiff.
>
> So when people say things like “I had a debt recovery letter
so I might not get a mortgage now” or “if I defend, I will get a
CCJ,” they are simply wrong. It is precisely that ignorance and
fear that these firms trade on. They rely on ordinary motorists
incorrectly assuming that a red-letter demand automatically
means ruined credit and bailiffs at the door.
>
> There is nothing in the advice given here that will affect
your credit record. On the contrary, proper advice is what keeps
you away from CCJs. If you engage with the process, defend where
appropriate, and, in the extremely rare instance where you are
unsuccessful defending a claim, pay any judgment within 30 days,
your credit file will remain completely unaffected and no
bailiff will lawfully darken your doorstep over a private
parking charge.
>
> These companies rely on being able to intimidate the
low-hanging fruit on the gullible tree into paying out of
ignorance and fear.
--- End Quote ---
#Post#: 102794--------------------------------------------------
Re: Debt Collectors due to not receiving the private parking
charge - disabled driver
DIR By: Dannyboy71
Date: December 17, 2025, 3:19 am
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thank you, Yes i am that gullible person and panicked when i
received the letter. I've gone onto IMGBB and uploaded the
letters and looking again at your advice believe it to be the
claim form. Thank you
HTML https://ibb.co/vxHLvkMv
HTML https://ibb.co/vxHLvkMv
HTML https://ibb.co/N0XcyFd
HTML https://ibb.co/N0XcyFd
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Re: Debt Collectors due to not receiving the private parking
charge - disabled driver
DIR By: b789
Date: December 17, 2025, 4:41 am
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The ONLY page that I need to see is the actual N1SDT Claim Form.
That’s the page with the name of the Claimant, their Legsl
representative (if they’re using one) and the Particulars of
Claim. It will have the claim number and, very importantly, the
issue date on the top left.
What you have shown is the cover letter and the Acknowledgement
of Service (AoS) form. If you show us the N1SDT form, I will
give you the advice on how to respond. You will not be using any
of the forms that came with the claim. Everything is done on
line.
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Re: Debt Collectors due to not receiving the private parking
charge - disabled driver
DIR By: Dannyboy71
Date: December 17, 2025, 4:55 am
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thank you, hopefully this is it, appreciate the support
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