UKPC parking charge notice - McDonalds

cc95597

Hi,

I received a parking charge notice from UKPC for McDonalds near Elland Road in Leeds a few weeks ago. To pay £50.00, raising to £100.00 after 14 days.

The charge is for spending 1 hr 42 mins there (had a break during work, went for a couple of coffee's and to do some paperwork being a couple of hours from home) - It turns out this exceeds their allocated time limit (which I believe would be 1 hour or 90 mins?)

I read a few threads on here and decided to take the advice to ignore it.

I have now received a second notice making demands for the £100.00.

My concern is that it mentions a new law coming into effect from October 2012 - The protection of freedoms act, relating to schedule 4.

I'm no genius when it comes to this sort of thing, so I wonder;

Is ignoring these notices still the way to go?
Has anything changed that means I really SHOULD pay this notice?
Are they still the same bunch of scam artists?
Is this going to escalate and hit me even harder if I ignore it?

Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Guys_Dad

You certainly haven't read any current threads or even searched for McDonalds .

I am almost tempted to ignore your post, but if you promise to read the last few pages of the POPLA Decisions sticky thread and then search for McDonalds on the last 3 months, then you will get some help.

First of all, date of contravention.

Was there a windscreen ticket?

Date of Notice to Keeper?

And do read at least 5 or 6 current threads as well to see the thrust of current advice.

Ignore is NOT an option with this mob at present, if I have got the right PPC.

Coupon-mad

cc95597 wrote: »

My concern is that it mentions a new law coming into effect from October 2012 - The protection of freedoms act, relating to schedule 4.

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4360185 ...wouldn't it have been a good idea to search the forum?!



Is ignoring these notices still the way to go? NO
Has anything changed YES
that means I really SHOULD pay this notice? NO
Are they still the same bunch of scam artists? YES
Is this going to escalate and hit me even harder if I ignore it? PROBABLY NOT WITH UKPC, BUT WHY WOULD YOU IGNORE A FAKE PCN WHEN THAT'S NOT CURRENT ADVICE?

Trouble is you haven't read current threads...and you may have missed the deadline to appeal now. But then again this is only UKPC!