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DCB Ltd on behalf of Smart Parking (UK) Limitied Insufficient
Paid Time Strothers Lane, Inverness, Scotland.
By: m6sqvna5j Date: July 11, 2025, 11:12 am
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Hi All, this took place is Scotland, I am looking for some help
contesting a parking PCN from Smart Parking. I Received this
letter today 11th July - the contraventions are dated to have
taken place on 29th of August 2022 & the 17th of June 2023, and
this is the first letter I have received. They are stating that
the driver overstayed in both cases.
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I was previously the registered keeper of the vehicle in
question but sold it last year so no longer have it.
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As these charges were so long ago my memory is limited when it
comes to the idenity of the driver, but from memory, and what I
can gather, the charge from the 29th of August 2022 the driver
entering the car park, the driver found a space, parked up, and
went for their appointment. The appointment ran over, and when
they got back to the car park they realised they had overstayed
their original time. They checked the car park signage and read
"You can purchase additional time (if required) at the payment
macines before leaving." They then paid for another hour (they
overstayed by 30 mins or less), which gave a ticket timed from
then to an hour later, which they assumed was enough if they
then left right then, and then left the car park. I do not have
the second ticket or a photo of it as proof, unfortunately but
assume it would be on the parking companies system?
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As for the second charge dated the 17th of June 2023, I have
less recollection on it but believe that upon entering the car
park, the driver found a space, parked up, and went for their
meeting. The meeting ran over, and when they left the car park
they had exceeded the maximum parking period, without realising.
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Any help would be greatly appreicated!
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Re: DCB Ltd on behalf of Smart Parking (UK) Limitied Insuffici
ent Paid Time Strothers Lane, Inverness, Scotland.
By: jfollows Date: July 11, 2025, 12:07 pm
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Scotland = no keeper liability.
Look it up.
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Re: DCB Ltd on behalf of Smart Parking (UK) Limitied Insuffici
ent Paid Time Strothers Lane, Inverness, Scotland.
By: m6sqvna5j Date: July 12, 2025, 1:44 pm
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I have read about no keeper liability in Scotland but wondered
what action to take next? or is ignoring the letters the best
course?
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Re: DCB Ltd on behalf of Smart Parking (UK) Limitied Insuffici
ent Paid Time Strothers Lane, Inverness, Scotland.
By: RichardW Date: July 12, 2025, 3:42 pm
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As it's with DCBL probably just have to ignore their letters -
they will give up eventually. But you could try sending them the
note Dr Satan detailed here:
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#Post#: 80759--------------------------------------------------
Re: DCB Ltd on behalf of Smart Parking (UK) Limitied Insuffici
ent Paid Time Strothers Lane, Inverness, Scotland.
By: jfollows Date: July 13, 2025, 3:00 am
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Dont contact or otherwise engage with DCBL in any way, I
suggest, but if DCB Legal contact you, at least reply to them.
If you write to anyone now, it needs to be the organ grinder,
Smart Parking.
The suggested appeal, from the registered keeper, is
[quote]"I appeal as registered keeper.
Liability for the parking charge rests with the driver of the
vehicle. I have no requirement to name the driver, and I will
not be doing so. For the avoidance of doubt, I was not the
driver.
You will be aware that under Scots law there is no mechanism via
which liability for the charge can be transferred from the
driver to the keeper.
I look forward to your confirmation that this charge has been
cancelled"[/quote]
Obviously dont say the keeper wasnt the driver if this isnt
true, just leave this bit out.
Or just do nothing, then ignore everything from DCBL.
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Re: DCB Ltd on behalf of Smart Parking (UK) Limitied Insuffici
ent Paid Time Strothers Lane, Inverness, Scotland.
By: b789 Date: July 13, 2025, 6:14 am
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Just ignore everything from DCBL or any other powerless debt
collector. All they can do is try and persuade the low-hanging
fruit on the gullible tree to pay up out of ignorance and fear.
Too late to appeal, but you must ask yourself why you never
received the original Notice to Keeper (NtK). Have you moved at
any point before the dates of the alleged contravention and
failed to update your address with the DVLA on the V5C? Updating
your address on your drivers licence does not update your V5C
data and must be dome separately.
Anyway, you've been told that there is no Keeper liability in
Scotland, for now. This means the you can ignore any PCNs you
receive as the Keeper. Only the driver can be liable and they
have no idea who that is unless the Keeper blabs it,
inadvertently or otherwise. As the Keeper, you only need to
refer to the driver in the third person, irrespective of who was
driving.
You can just continue to ignore this until it goes away. If (not
so) Smart Parking, using one of the incompetent bulk litigators
sends you a Letter of Claim (LoC), come back and we will tell
you how to deal with it. No one will take you to court in
Scotland under the Simple Procedure for a few hundred £ as it
would cost them more to even think about trying to recover that,
especially as it will be out of their England/Wales
jurisdiction.
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Re: DCB Ltd on behalf of Smart Parking (UK) Limitied Insuffici
ent Paid Time Strothers Lane, Inverness, Scotland.
By: m6sqvna5j Date: December 22, 2025, 9:30 am
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After 5 months I have now been contacted by DCB Legal in regards
to the above parking charges in Scotland. What is the best
course of action at this point? Any help is appreicated.
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Re: DCB Ltd on behalf of Smart Parking (UK) Limitied Insuffici
ent Paid Time Strothers Lane, Inverness, Scotland.
By: b789 Date: December 22, 2025, 11:58 am
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This letter is not a court claim. It is justa solicitor
debt-chasing letter saying they may recommend passing the
matters to Scottish litigation partners if you do not respond.
In Scotland there is currently no statutory keeper liability for
private parking charges. That means Smart Parking would need to
pursue the driver, and the Keeper should not do anything that
identifies the driver.
Best course of action now:
1. Do not phone DCB Legal. Do not engage by telephone at all.
2. Keep everything. Watch only for an actual Sheriff Court
Simple Procedure claim form. Letters from DCB Legal are not
that.
3. If you want to be proactive, write once to Smart Parking (not
DCB Legal) as registered keeper:
deny keeper liability
state liability rests with the driver
state you will not name the driver
require them to cancel the charges or provide full copies of
every PCN/NtK, photographs, ANPR logs, payment machine records,
and the legal basis on which they claim the keeper is liable in
Scotland
4. Submit a Subject Access Request to Smart Parking for all data
held about you and the vehicle registration, including every
PCN, every notice, all photographs, ANPR timestamps, payment
records, and all correspondence history. This is useful if you
genuinely did not receive the original notices.
Do not admit who was driving and do not add any narrative about
what happened on the day. Keep it strictly to keeper position
and evidence requests.
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Re: DCB Ltd on behalf of Smart Parking (UK) Limitied Insuffici
ent Paid Time Strothers Lane, Inverness, Scotland.
By: m6sqvna5j Date: March 17, 2026, 3:10 pm
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Hello looking for further assistance on this matter as I have
now been contacted by another company, what is the best course
of action for this company? Any help is appreicated.
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Re: DCB Ltd on behalf of Smart Parking (UK) Limitied Insuffici
ent Paid Time Strothers Lane, Inverness, Scotland.
By: jfollows Date: March 17, 2026, 3:14 pm
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Ignore.
They (EP Financial Solutions, EPFS) are debt collectors.
[quote]Just ignore everything from DCBL or any other powerless
debt collector. All they can do is try and persuade the
low-hanging fruit on the gullible tree to pay up out of
ignorance and fear.[/quote]
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