UKCPS parking invoice cancelled

I thought I would post as a newby here, as I spent ages last weekend reading through the posts on here for advice and found it very helpful.

I will TRY to keep it brief (I'm not known for my briefness!) I got back from holiday last weekend to find a parking invoice from UKCPS relating to me 'walking off site' on 19th July - the invoice referred to me having ignored the ticket affixed to the car (there absolutely wasn't one) and therefore the £60 reduced charge was now £100 - this was the first correspondence I'd received from them. I was furious to say the least, hadn't really heard about these PPCs at all and was amazed at the amount of information/disgruntledness found on these sites.

I have used this car park in my local town regularly to shop at the units there, only park to shop there and never take advantage of the facility - was totally aware that it was customer use only and you could park free for 2 hours - this can be clearly seen on the signs as you drive in - had no idea until I went back to the units to look at the signs that it had a string of other things you couldn't do in smaller letters not really readable from a car driving through - one of which was passenger or driver not to walk off site.

I did briefly leave the site, first time I ever have, literally for 2 mins after spending £50 in one of the shops. I managed to find a receipt which was timed 3 minutes before the 'offence'.

When I returned to the site last weekend to check the signs, I spoke to a staff member in Next where I'd spent my money and he suggested I ring or write to the landowners, even took me to one of their signs so I could find the telephone number.

They were only Mon-Fri office hours, so I emailed them a copy of the invoice and my receipt, expressed my annoyance at the whole situation and how much time I'd spent getting advice and they should be aware how unfavourable the information about UKCPS and the like were on this and other consumer websites. I even admitted to them that I'd walked off site very briefly and what the circumstances were and that I didn't take kindly to knowing that I must have been watched.

I then wrote to UKCPS using some of the template information I found here and the like, sent them a copy of their invoice with anomolies highlighted, I didn't admit to being the driver, only the keeper - I didn't mention I had walked off site, just said that unless they had evidence to this effect I wouldn't be entering into any further correspondence with them and they should therefore send me the POPLA stuff.

Friday I had an email from the landowners, very short and sweet telling me they would contac UKCPS to cancel my parking invoice and to let them know straight away if I got any further correspondence from UKCPS.

I don't know whether I would have got the same result had I not written to the landowners too but nevertheless, very pleased with the result and would like to thank the posters on this site for their valuable information which gave me the confidence to appeal

Since this happened I found out that my dad had received a ticket a few years back for walking off site in the town where he lives and just paid it without query as it was true. 2 weeks later he received another one which he was really angry about obviously he wasn't going to be caught out twice in a fortnight - had only been shopping quite legitimately in B&Q on this occasion. He copied them his receipt from B&Q, wrote them a stiff letter and they did actually cancel it straight away.

Good luck to anyone else fighting these PPCs
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