Euro Car Parks - can we appeal?

hockeylass

Hi everyone
Hope you can help - here's some background before my rant!!

We live on the Isle of Wight but my 37 week pregnant sister is having to get the boat to Southampton next week to have a caesarian and hysterectomy. The cost of the ferry is extortion and the town where the ferry leaves has very little in the way of long-stay parking. Great when you have to be over at the hospital for hours for appointments.
So today we go over so she can have all her blood tested etc. My mum, who is disabled, parks her car in a disabled bay at the long stay car park, about half a mile from the terminal. It used to be council owned, so she got eight hours free on her badge. It is now owned by Euro Car Parks and (wrongly) assumed she'd get the same. We returned to find a parking ticket.

I'm fuming about it. The situation is stressful and daunting enough without this on top. I want to know if we can appeal it in any way. I should add that the form was filled out in pencil and put in a plastic bag which has leaked in the rain and they can barely read any of it, including the reference number and the amount they have to pay!!!

Any advice?
:mad:

Valli

pm a board guide and get this moved to this forum

Blue text is a link

in the meantime, however TOTALLY ignore the ticket. Don't phone, don't write, don't tell them your sob story (they have no hearts anyway;))

hockeylass

How do I PM a board guide? Sorry, new to this. Totally agree it should be in the other one!

How can we ignore? Theyll double it and we can barely afford it as it is??

Valli

If, as I suspect, it's a PRIVATE car park then it isn't a fine. it's an invoice, which ia a posh word for a bill. If you ignore it (be strong!) they will go away. They're NOT enforceable. So you don't appeal to them. Just totally ignore it and any letters related to it.

What is the wording at the top of the ticket?

hockeylass

It used to be council-run, so its prob contracted out to Euro
I havent actually seen the ticket as they've received but it says Parking Charge Notice

Tupperware_Queen

its totally non enforceable. Like Valli said DO NOT pay. There is a whole section on this on the main site

Valli

Thanks for the confirmation Tupperware Queen

OP read this

and as you have now confirmed Parking Charge Notice - not a fine - it's a devious, low, underhand trick they use to make you THINK it's a fine and enforceable in law and it isn't. Seriously, tell your mother to ignore it, totally, and enjoy her new grandchild.

Tupperware_Queen

http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/reclaim/private-parking-tickets

Tupperware_Queen

Valli wrote: »

Thanks for the confirmation Tupperware Queen

OP read this

great minds think alike :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Valli

and, for the future print out one of these

http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/travel/glovebox-parking-guide

Valli

and don't bother getting it moved now - waste of time, really;)