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greigJCW

I recently went to a car show down near stoke. On route I along with a number of others were to meet at a car park for the holiday inn express. A number of others were staying there but the majority were using it as a rendezvous point.

Anyway I arrived met with the rest of the group and left 37 mins later. The car park was free to use but unknown to myself you have to have stayed there in order to use the car park.

So yesterday I get a letter stating that the car park was for patrons only and a invoice from them for £100, with a offer to reduce to £60 if I pay within 14 days

Now I have done a bit of research and it would appear that due to the fact its private ground and not public highway this is a civil case and not a criminal one. As such it falls under contract law hence it is not actually classed as fine but as an invoice. According to others this contract of agreement is entered automatically when I drove into the carpark. However I did not see the sign and TBH for all they know they dont know who was driving the car.

Also I was led to believe they can only claim for losses, ie if I was due to pay a lets say £5 charge which I failed to they are within their rights to bill me for that. as the car par has no charges I would assume a £100 charge for 37 mins is rather excessive.

So is this all correct what is the best way forward. To I give a reply or letter or simply ignore.

If I decide to appeal how exactly do you do that, ie going to POPLA etc

Thanks in advance.

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pogofish

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