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You say that Parking Eye is the company about whom you receive the most complaints. How about TCP (Town and City) Parking? These people are based in Perth and they bombard me on a daily basis. Today,...
I too got a notification from Parking Eye, the usual £90 or £45 if paid in 15 days. I did some research and found that the best advice is to ignore the second and third letters. The third one is quite...
I was out in my employer's van the other day and had to pop into my local shopping mall. The area in which I wished to park had no spaces big enough for me. Realising I was going to have to straddle two...
I have been following the debate on Clause 56 of the Protection of Freedoms bill through your column and have written to my MP (twice) to raise my objections. I finally received a reply from Norman Baker...
Carla Carlisle, a columnist with Country Life, wrote a harrowing piece about an A14 accident in the Travel Section of the DT on Saturday 24 March. I wrote to her this week and had a very positive email...
I received a Parking Charge from Parking Eye. Parking Eye claimed that my car entered the Associated British Ports Town Quay (Short stay) Car Park in Southampton at 12:39:07 on 7 March and left at 17:32:59...
I know you have covered this before a few times but would be grateful if you could let me know what you think about the following: On 2 March I had a meeting at the Crewe Arms Hotel in Crewe, for which...
Shall I let you into a little secret, which you probably won't believe (but I have the evidence to back it up). My interest was sparked when one of my daughters got a PCN from Parking Eye (PE). I was fortunate...
You have quite rightly written several times about the antics of the British Parking Association and its members. If you have not seen the following article I commend it to you: http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/plcdev/home/sfusion/htdocs/staging/new.clearest.co.uk/public/system/files/139/original/Pikestaff_57_.pdf/...
Some years ago, we were pursued by debt collectors for a very dubious debt. I wrote to them asking to provide clear proof or to leave us alone. I said that there would be charges for dealing with their...