smart parking ticket!! obstructive parking ??

quality_kit

Hi all,recently parked my car in a car park while shopping i have parked in the same car park many times,on returning to my vehicle found a ticket attached to my car for obstructive parking!!! the car park was half empty with more than thirty available spaces and it fronts a store that has been closed for some time,i was admittedly over the white parking lines and wont deny this but i was not aware that this was an offence for which i have been issued a £70.00 pcn reduced to £40.00 if paid within 14 days,the vehicle is not registered to me so would this company have to prove who was driving to enforce the charge and would the registered keeper be required by law to name the driver,i could not in my opinion be causing an obstruction in a half empty car park outside a store that is closed and no longer trading,i have a photo of my vehicle showing at least 4 empty parking bays next to it,should i just pay up or ignore.

atilla

With this particular bunch of no hopers, i'd be inclined to ignore. Just expect the usual paper trail of threats, puff and bluster.
If you appeal you may end up in an endless loop as they currently seem reluctant to issue popla codes and keep asking for further evidence or pay up.

Coupon-mad

quality_kit wrote: »

Hi all,recently parked my car in a car park while shopping i have parked in the same car park many times,on returning to my vehicle found a ticket attached to my car for obstructive parking!!!

The car park was half empty with more than thirty available spaces and it fronts a store that has been closed for some time. I was admittedly over the white parking lines - and wont deny this - but I was not aware that this was an offence for which i have been issued a £70.00 pcn reduced to £40.00 if paid within 14 days.

It is not an offence and nor is it a parking ticket.

quality_kit wrote: »

The vehicle is not registered to me so would this company have to prove who was driving to enforce the charge and would the registered keeper be required by law to name the driver?

No and no. But the registered keeper could be 'liable' if they don't. Who is the registered keeper, a relative? A company? Dodgy situation if a lease/company car.

quality_kit wrote: »

I could not in my opinion be causing an obstruction in a half empty car park outside a store that is closed and no longer trading. I have a photo of my vehicle showing at least 4 empty parking bays next to it. Should i just pay up or ignore.

Neither (you could ignore but the registered keeper will get lots of scary letters - DO NOT LET THAT HAPPEN if the rk is a company). Read the parking forum, first couple of pages should do it and you'll soon have read the same old same old advice about CHALLENGING THE TICKET umpteen times (not as many times as I have typed it though!).

Obviously no-one pays!!!!!!!!!

quality_kit

Thank,s the rk is my spouse and the vehicle is privately owned not a company or lease car,i have read quite a lot of info on smart parking ltd aka town and city parking and i think i am going down the ignore route and see what bully boy tactics they come up with next.