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Multiple Euro Car Parks PCNs (2021-2025) – DRP "Letter
before referral for legal action" – Help needed!
DIR By: Numberuno
Date: January 14, 2026, 4:27 pm
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Hi everyone,
I’m looking for some advice for my sister who is in a bit of a
mess with some mainly old parking tickets. She’s currently not
working and on paternity pay, and the stress of this is starting
to get to her.
She has 4 outstanding tickets in total (3 from Morrisons Wood
Green and 1 from Tottenham Hale). She ignored them at the time
because of that old and clearly wrong advice that you don't have
to pay private fines.
Three of the tickets are from around 2021 period in Morrisons
Wood Green. Debt Recovery Plus (DRP) is now chasing for a total
of £595. They sent a "Letter before referral for legal action"
for one of the 2021 (01/12/2021) one recently, saying she owes
£151.10 for that single ticket.
The main issues:
She tried to offer them £10 a month because she’s on paternity
pay and has no other income. They refused it and demanded £70,
then £50. She missed the first payment because she literally
doesn't have it, they threatened to refer it to bailiffs if she
didn't setup a payment plan and make pthe payments.
We don't have any of the original letters or photos because
they’re from years ago. She might be able to find the most
recent one which apparantly was from a few months ago in
Tottenham Hale.
Is there any way to get them to accept a lower payment or just
leave her alone while she's on maternity/paternity leave?
Any help would be appreciated.
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Re: Multiple Euro Car Parks PCNs (2021-2025) – DRP "Letter
before referral for legal action" – Help needed!
DIR By: DWMB2
Date: January 14, 2026, 6:29 pm
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To start off with, we need to see copies of any correspondence
between her and ECP, or any debt collectors acting on her
behalf.
In particular we need to see this communication whereby she has
offered to pay them in installments. At face value this doesn't
sound ideal, as it could be taken as an admission that money is
owed, particularly if said offer wasn't made on a without
prejudice basis.
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Re: Multiple Euro Car Parks PCNs (2021-2025) – DRP "Letter
before referral for legal action" – Help needed!
DIR By: Numberuno
Date: January 15, 2026, 2:21 am
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I can upload the one letter I've seen from Debt Recovery Plus
later.
I just spoke to my sister to ask her if she had anything about
the payment plan. She said she didn't have any letters and that
she set it up over the phone. She gave them her bank details
after agreeing to pay £50 per month. She said they called after
the payment failed from her account.
It sounds like it may be too late to do anything possibly as
when asking her a few more questions this is not the first
payment she will be making, she said that they took a payment
previously. I guess that is likley a closed case? She had
ballifs around for other tickets before and said she didn't want
to be in that situation again. I guess the best thing to do for
now would be to lend her the £50 for her to pay this months
payment?
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