A enterprise proprietor has amassed greater than 100 parking fines for parking in his very personal house.
Graham Bethel says he’s entitled to having one car within the service yard of his firm in Hitchin, Hertfordshire.
Ever since he and his daughter took out the lease on a enterprise within the city, they are saying the house has been included within the deal.
Graham has tried repeatedly to use for his or her official entitled parking allow to put on his automobile, however nonetheless hasn’t acquired it.
Because of this, he was being left with parking tickets galore – and workers who used the house out of hours and late at evening had additionally totted up costs.
Graham has, thus far, been battling in useless to get the fines overturned.
He not too long ago noticed his credit score rating drop from an ideal 100 to simply 2, which emerged to be the results of a County Court docket Judgement (CCJ) put towards him.
He instructed Metro.co.uk: ‘We now have most likely 100 or so parking notices and have once more contacted the parking firm and their solicitors many instances to clarify our place.
‘I used to be stunned to search out {that a} CCJ had been issued towards me with out my information of a courtroom case. After a variety of looking, I discovered that they commenced proceedings giving a very false tackle for me, to cease me with the ability to defend my case.
‘Though I’ve utilized to the courtroom to cancel the judgement, there may be such a backlog with the courts that I nonetheless have this CCJ towards me three months later, which makes it troublesome to run my enterprise.’
Graham added that the fines, which might quantity to hundreds, had precipitated sleepless nights.
He’s additionally unable to lease a automobile for his enterprise, a safety firm, because of his low credit score rating.
He added: ‘All of the fines would add as much as hundreds, all for parking in my very own house’.
UKPC, which issued the fines, and DCB Authorized, which Graham says launched the CCJ, have been contacted by Metro.co.uk for remark.
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