Parking Ticket - Advice Please?

happy_lady

We have 2 carparks in Exeter side by side - one for the leisure centre and one for the shops. I intended to use both areas (one to buy a prezzie and one to pick up a price brochure) and so parked in the leisure centre as this has easier spaces to reverse out of! I took my mother to the shops first to pick up a christmas prezzie and then went back to the car to drop this off and found a parking ticket advising I had left the premises.

I know technically I am in the wrong as I should park in each separately but was stupid and had thought I could park once.

No ticket is needed for either car park and no car park was full - the only advantage to me is the ease of parking.

I had borrowed the car I was driving but there is CCTV - the first invoice has arrived saying the cost will £150 if not paid. Should I pay?

Many thanks for any advice you can offer.

lucylucky

Should you pay? Certainly not. You have no need to.

What company sent you this invoice?

zzzLazyDaisy

I am assuming that these car parks are run by a private parking company, since you refer to an invoice?

In that case, do a search on MSE, and don't pay.

You will get increasingly threatening letters so you will need to be strong and ignore them, but eventually they will give up and go away.

esmerobbo

Let me Guess Exe bridge retail park UKCPS?

Sirdan

Assuming neither you or the registered keeper have made any contact with this company you should def ignore them.
If there is any proper contract at all it is with the driver not the keeper.
They will have invoiced the keeper as they get this info from the number plate via the DVLA.
The keeper is NOT obliged to tell them who was driving.
As for CCTV even if you are on it ,unless you walk around with your full name plastered on you front and back ,they still don't know who you are do they ?
Remember ONLY the driver is liable NOT the keeper ,the company or their debt collection agency may send you legal looking letters telling you otherwise but it is all bluff. Keeper not liable ,keeper not obliged to disclose who was driving.

happy_lady

Premier Park is the issuing company. At first I thought just ignore it but the first letter has arrived and I do feel bad for the owner - though I have been totally up front with him - and it also concerns me because there is CCTV.

The first "invoice" arrived yesterday and I was going to reply on behalf of ther owner advising that "I, the owner, was not driving the vehical at the time and understand I don't have to disclose who the driver was".

As a company it appears they don't favour appeals ever.

Sirdan

If the registered keeper is bothered by this company's meaningless threats tell them to visit this forum for reassurance.

happy_lady

esmerobbo wrote: »

Let me Guess Exe bridge retail park UKCPS?

The opposite one at the Leisure Centre - though I had thought they were owned by the same company.

lucylucky

Do not engage in any contact with them whatsoever.

They will eventually go away after some threatening letters which should be ignored.

You owe nothing.

esmerobbo

happy_lady wrote: »

The opposite one at the Leisure Centre - though I had thought they were owned by the same company.

Totally ignore them as advised.

However I found an article somewhere a while back relating to these two car parks. I am sure part of the lease from the council says you can use either car park for each venue. If I can find it I will post it up.

Nothing will become of this so simply ignoring them is the way to deal with it!

happy_lady

Thank you for the information. Would you say it was worth sending in a letter advising them that the owner is not the driver?