UKCPS Ravenhead Retail Park St Helens

sulliey

1st off Sorry to post a new thread but so confusing what you can/can't should/shouldn't do.

We parked at Ravenhead Retail park in St Helens pre a Saints match. Parked at 7.30 (most of the shops already shut and only Burger King opened after 8pm anyway). Have parked here on numerous occasions for matches and never been a problem. Returned back to the car at 9.45 to find a ticket on the windscreen - reason "Drive/passengers observed leaving site" Do I have to pay this fine or can I appeal and on what grounds? There looked to have been a whole load of people issued tickets as well. Ticker was issued at 2029. If I have to pay Ok but would rather not.
Thanks

da_rule

No you don't have to pay.

If you're the registered keeper of the car then the advice is to wait for a notice to arrive through the post (29-56 days after the windscreen ticket was issued). You then appeal using the template in the first post of the Newbies sticky thread (https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4816822). This then gets rejected and you appeal to POPLA, again using templates from the forum, details contained in the third post of the Newbies sticky thread. If you follow these templates you will win at POPLA.

If you are not the registered keeper (i.e. company/hire car) then come back because the advice is slightly different.

In the meantime read the Newbies sticky thread and post 12 of this thread: https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4816822 for a flow chart on what to do.

sulliey

Thanks - will wait see what happens and then come back as you suggest:j

sulliey

Thank you for all the help on this site - a parkign "fine" cancelled

Coupon-mad

Yay well done!

DidoAnders

Hi Sulliey

I got one of the same tickets - can i please ask what grounds you appealed? i.e. what was your challenge? I want to go back & say that getting a parking ticket post-8pm on a retail park that closes at 8pm is ludicrous, but I'd like to hear what your challenge was - especially as it was accepted

Thanks

Umkomaas

sulliey's last visit to anywhere on MSE was over 15 months ago; it's unlikely your request will be received by him/her.

All you need to know to deal with your parking charge is contained in the NEWBIES FAQ sticky, at the top of this forum's thread list, one page back from here.

Have a good read through that first, then if there are any points you don't understand, do come back to us, but please start a new thread of your own. We work on the basis of one PCN, one thread - it avoids advice getting mixed up between two (or more) separate posters.

HTH

Redx

also, last year the OP could have appealed to popla as UKCPS were in the BPA, which would have influenced their decision

UKCPS are now IPC members with the IAS as ADR, hence have a different mindset - proving there is little point in reading threads that are 15 months old

so as mentioned, read the newbies sticky thread, then start a new thread if you need bespoke help yourself