Another UKPC Victim!

fedupkate

Hi everyone

We've received a "Civil Traffic Enforcement Notice" from UKPC but having had a read around, our circumstances are slightly different to most people's. The contravention is for "vehicle parked on yellow lines/hatched area".

Unfortunately we pulled over on double yellow lines, literally for a few seconds, to let someone out of the car quickly. This was on a small approach road to a shopping centre car park run by UKPC.

We've since been back and there are indeed notices up on the side of the building where we stopped, which say "No parking/stopping".

We weren't actually in the car park, just on the approach road to it. I think this approach road is a public highway.

Would anyone know if UKPC have the authority to raise their "enforcement notice"? I think the police, local government, etc. do but a private company?

Thanks very much for any advice.

trisontana

All road markings on private land, be it yellow lines, hatching or bay markings, have no basis in law. Therefore just ignore these jokers. You have not broken any laws and have not commited any crimes.

fedupkate

Thanks for confirmation, trisontana.

If it were the other way round and I was stopped very briefly on a double yellow line on a public highway, I am right in thinking that it would only be the police or the local council (say a traffic warden) that could issue a ticket, aren't I?

When you turn into this approach road to the car park, you turn off a very busy main road and there are hatched lines at the traffic lights.

lucylucky

If you had a ticket from the council/police then that would be a different matter, however these PPC scum can and should be ignored - totally.

fedupkate

That's decided it then. Thanks for confirming all my instincts. I'm definitely ignoring it!

I'd be interested to know who or how they took the photo. From the angle, it looks like it might have been done with a handheld camera. There is a camera on a massive pole mounted on the pavement, which looks over the hatched lines at the traffic lights but I presume that one is the council/Highways Agency and not UKPC. Hope they don't share photos!

trisontana

But it's a picture of the car and not of the driver. In private parking matters the parking company have to go after the driver and not the registered keeper. The RK is under no obligation to tell the PPC the identity of the driver. So they have fallen at the first hurdle.

backfoot

Big .....no very,very,very etc......little brother is watching you.

Ignore the idiots.:)

esmerobbo

fedupkate wrote: »

Thanks for confirmation, trisontana.

If it were the other way round and I was stopped very briefly on a double yellow line on a public highway, I am right in thinking that it would only be the police or the local council (say a traffic warden) that could issue a ticket, aren't I?

When you turn into this approach road to the car park, you turn off a very busy main road and there are hatched lines at the traffic lights.

You can actually stop to drop off or pick up a person on DYL or SYL as long as you don't wait or leave the vehicle. However saying that the invoice you have received is a request for payment as advised ignore it.