Parking ticket for exceeding time limit

Orange_cake

My father visited a macdonalds restaurant on the 28th december near the 02 area where they had 1:30 mins free parking to drop a friend off for a show, and came back to the same restaurant later on in the evening. However today he was given a parking notice by met parking services of exceeding the 1:30 min as they counted from the first time he entered but not from when he left and when he came back the second time. He paid by card twice which would show up his statement. Is there anything else he can do?

Redx

he could ask the landowner to cancel the charge

in the meantime you need to read the NEWBIES - READ THIS FIRST sticky thread at the top of the forum, to decide on a soft appeal you can send in when the NTK arrives ( if this first charge was a windscreen pcn ? )

if it goes any further then its a POPLA appeal after that

so is this a postal PCN (or a postal NTK or NTO or similar ) , or ticketed on the day at the car park ?

does he still have any tickets he bought ?

EDIT, sorry, as its a free car park for 1 hour 30 mins I thought you meant paying for tickets, whereas what you really mean is paying for meals I think, otherwise, I am unclear as to what the 2 charges on his statement are actually for ?

in that case, maybe they have ticketed him for returning within a certain time scale, most have a no return for 2 hours rule ?

otherwise, this is what is known by parking prankster as "double-dipping" and he checks on this a lot due to parking firms trying it on in which case it would help if he had proof that the vehicle was elsewhere between the two visits to this same car park , also if he knows the approximate times of the first departure and the second entrance visits for the PPC to recheck their ANPR cameras

The_Deep

Fire off a complaint to Trading Standards that the PPC is relying on defective cameras to calculate parking charges, could be a criminal offence.

Boult22

A carefully worded letter explaining the situation - especially if it can be backed up with other evidence of your activities in between each visit.

Worked for me with a similar event 12 months ago on Sandbach Sevices.

Have a good read through here though - plenty of good advice.

Coupon-mad

Orange_cake wrote: »

My father visited a McDonalds restaurant on the 28th december near the 02 area where they had 1:30 mins free parking to drop a friend off for a show, and came back to the same restaurant later on in the evening. However today he was given a parking notice by MET parking services of exceeding the 1:30 min as they counted from the first time he entered but not from when he left and when he came back the second time. He paid by card twice which would show up his statement. Is there anything else he can do?

Well obviously he appeals, as per the ''Newbies read this first'' sticky thread near the top of this forum.

But you may have also missed the 'Successful complaints about PPCs' thread where there's more than one linked example of local McDonalds Managers routinely cancelling a fake PCN from MET with just one complaint phone call needed. Let us know when McDonalds cancel it (NOT Head Office).