Parking eye charge

sunil_f

Hi All,

I did the stupid thing of ignoring the letters from Parking eye based on old posts and an earlier experience i had with a parking ticket.

I have now received a claim form from Northampton county court and need help with mounting a defense.

I think i have a strong case based upon hidden and missing signage. I had gone to visit friends at Holiday Inn Express Heathrow Terminal 5 and when i entered the parking area i didn't see any parking notices. I must have parked the car for over an hour. I did notice a parking sign when i was exiting the lobby but it didn't mention anything about APNR system. I quickly ran to my car and was relived that there was no parking ticket on it and considered myself lucky.

Some weeks later i received a parking charge notice from Parking eye with pictures of my car entering and exiting the car park. I started to ignore the letters based on a past experience i had with a parking ticket where the PPC went away after a while.

I believe the signage at the express inn is intentionally placed so that people miss it and i think its a trap for people like me. If the signs were properly displayed i would have bought a ticket and spared myself this headache.

Please guide me and advise as to how i can fight back,

regards,

Sunil

Coupon-mad

Hi Sunil,
The best I can do as I am about to log off is to start your reading/research off by showing you a couple of recent threads where the advice has already been given:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4850195


https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/64051145#Comment_64051145

You will also need to settle down and have a good read of LOTS of pepipoo threads too.

sunil_f

Thanks Coupon-mad. I have started reading the links you suggested and am also going to create a thread on pepipoo so that i can get as much guidence as possible.