Transit Van parking

Batman4Catwoman

Hi, I was just wondering if anybody has experienced a parking fine from ParkingEye for parking a transit van over two spaces. My wife came home from work today quite upset as she was organising an event at a retail park and the hired long wheel based transit van used for transporting the equipment had a parking ticket from Parking Eye left on the windscreen. It says that the reason for the ticket is for Abused patron parking and obstructive parking. I am going back tomorrow to check the signage, but how else are you supposed to park a transit van? Any input on this is gratefully received:-(

Stroma

Can you please edit your post to remove the identifying parts of the post, see my signature below. You say they ticketed your wife, that is unusual I never heard this company putting it on screen before its normally ANPR . Are you sure it's parking eye ?

Coupon-mad

Batman4Catwoman wrote: »

Hi, I was just wondering if anybody has experienced a parking fine from ParkingEye for parking a transit van over two spaces. My wife came home from work quite upset as she was organising an event at a retail park and the hired long wheel based transit van used for transporting the equipment had a parking ticket from Parking Eye left on the windscreen. It says that the reason for the ticket is for Abused patron parking and obstructive parking. I am going back tomorrow to check the signage, but how else are you supposed to park a transit van? Any input on this is gratefully received:-(

Would love to see (by pm please) a redacted copy of the front and back, all small print on that windscreen ticket as I don't think I have seen a recent Parking Eye version like that.

Normally we would say do not respond to a windscreen ticket (normally best advice is to wait for the postal Notice to Keeper) but one of you is going to have to challenge it immediately in order to stop PE from writing to the hire company (and possibly the hire company falling for the scam and paying it and charging your wife the amount plus an admin fee).

So challenge it like this immediately - deliberately written so as not to name the driver nor to tell them it's a hired van of course:


''Dear scammers,
Surprised to have a 'PCN' slapped on the above vehicle's windscreen at xxxxxx Retail Park. I would have expected that your operatives would have been informed that an event was taking place that day, namely xxxxxxx xxxxxxx and this van was not being used by 'patrons' but to legitimately load/unload the necessary equipment using our transit van as close as possible to the part of the site where the equipment was needed. Your clients who run this car park will confirm this to be the case if you were somehow not aware of this event.

Please confirm the 'ticket' has been cancelled or give me a POPLA code so I can take this matter to a successful conclusion with an independent appeal.''


P.S.
If you are going back tomorrow, shouldn't your first priority to be to march into the Retail Park office or information desk and demand to know how to get this damn thing cancelled seeing as the van was there loading/unloading in connection with AN EVENT in the Retail Park?!!