Fine for parking in Baby & Toddler Bay

toomadtoosad

Has anyone else had this problem?

I dropped off my husband and 1 year old at the shop door in a small retail park and went off to find a parking space. Luckily there was a baby & toddler space just yards away so parked there. Car seat was in the back seat of the car.

I went straight to meet my husband & son in the shop. A short while later, my husband left for work and I took my son to the shop next door and bought some clothes.

I went back to car with my son approx 1hr after parking and found I had a parking ticket from a private company who owned the car park (Parking Fines Limited) for parking in bay without a baby - written just minutes after I parked. I went back into the shop I bought the clothes from and the manager said there was nothing she could do as it's a private company, but as she could clearly see I had a baby with me, she gave me her name and said they could contact her.

I have sent an appeal explaining what had happened and included the shop managers details but they have replied saying that the fine is valid as I didn't have a baby when I parked.

Has anyone else had this problem and had the fine cancelled? What did you do?

jaydeeuk1

Ignore it.

mcjordi

its not a fine its an invoice
so ignore it, use it as toilet paper, feed the hamster it lol
if it were to go to court then they can only claim there expenses irrc which are exactly NIL (£0) Nada zilch Zippo

Coblcris

Private Companies can NOT issue 'fines'. With that in mind just the name of the company alone tells you that this is a scam. Just ignore them, do not contact them. They will send letters to the Registered Keeper, scary looking letters - to the uninitiated that is. On here we laugh at the letters and then use them to make complaints to Trading Standards, the DVLA, the BPA, the Landowner, our MPs, and if the letters are clearly fraudulent (and many are) to the police as well..

sarahg1969

IMO, this company's name is tantamount to fraud, never mind any of the guff they send you through the post.

OP, just think about it. This is a private company, whose business it is to make money, yes? How would it benefit their business to allow any "appeals"? There is no such thing as an appeals process. And everyone else is right. You haven't been fined, and should now ignore anything else you receive from them.

Oh, and tell everyone you know all about the scam.

OP - another thing - was this in an envelope marked "Penalty Charge Notice"?

BFG_2

File it in the small round metal filing cabinet [or maybe put it directly in the big [green] plastic filing cabinet with a lid and wheels on it?? lol]

bumpoowee

I agree with everyone else, ignore it. We had a fraudulently given parking ticket in a private car park last year, didn't bother to reply to it, heard nothing since!

Makes me laugh though the name of this company "Parking Fines Limited" - have these companies given up on trying to present the facade of being parking 'management' companies and are now just admitting they are out to scam as much money as possible by ticketing anyone and everyone?

Pssst

Throw it away.

McKneff

dont contact them again for any reason - its an invoice that they cannot enforce