UK CPS Parking Charge Notice - Pay in 14 days or not?

lukedavid92

This is the first time I have received a PCN which is I feel is unjust. The ticket says I should pay £60.00 within 14 days or face a payment of £100.00 after the 14 day period.I intend to appeal the ticket on various grounds though the 14 day period would be this Saturday.
I was parked on an industrial estate on the highway & not in a parking bay controlled by a sign.
Do I need to contact them before Saturday or wait for any correspondence from them. I have looked on various websites which give me conflicting guidelines so I`m not sure which is the best way to go with this. Can anybody help please?

pogofish

You wait till they send you a NTK - Notice to Keeper. Do not contact them before then. Many PPCs actually regularly fail at this first minor hurdle, so you don't want to give it away to them.

Start by having a very careful read of the Newbies Sticky at the top of the forum - It has all the info you need for a successful challenge/POPLA appeal. There is no conflict whatsoever here.

Post it up for further advice when you have the bare bones together.

Edna_Basher

pogofish wrote: »

You wait till they send you a NTK - Notice to Keeper.

Just one caveat to pogofish's good advice - if this is a lease car or company car, you should bear in mind that the NTK would be sent to the lease company / your employer which may not necessarily be a good thing.

If either you or a family member is the registered keeper then the best advice is to sit tight and wait for the NTK to arrive.

Why worry about losing the chance to pay the discounted charge of £60 when you know that you can end up paying £Nil.

Coupon-mad

lukedavid92 wrote: »

Do I need to contact them before Saturday or wait for any correspondence from them. I have looked on various websites which give me conflicting guidelines so I`m not sure which is the best way to go with this. Can anybody help please?

As ever, this is covered in the sticky thread at/near the top of this parking forum - which is why I wrote it. Sadly, last year it got silly as we could not keep up with all the ''help I have got a private parking ticket, what do I do?'' threads so I wrote a sticky thread, begging newbies to 'read these FAQS first'.

UKCPS almost always just cancel when they get sent the appeal template from the NEWBIES thread (after the NTK arrives in the post) and if they don't throw in the towel at first, then the sticky tells you how to win at POPLA and explains what that is...

Redx

lukedavid92 wrote: »

This is the first time I have received a PCN which is I feel is unjust.

yep, you aand 99.9% of the uk public who receives one says the same, in fact I have seen few if any that believe a private pcn is "just" , which is why they tend to come looking on here, pepipoo or C.A.G.

lukedavid92 wrote: »

. The ticket says I should pay £60.00 within 14 days or face a payment of £100.00 after the 14 day period.I intend to appeal the ticket on various grounds though the 14 day period would be this Saturday.

this bribe period is designed to try to make you pay the lower amount instead of appealing, its a trap to catch the unwary and the timid

lukedavid92 wrote: »

THE DRIVER was parked on an industrial estate on the highway & not in a parking bay controlled by a sign.

note the changes in RED and edit your opening post accordingly

only the foolhardy make statements on an open forum read by the "opposition" on a daily basis looking to again "catch the unwary"

maybe we should "fine" people for making statements like this that could be used against them in a court of law ? (sic)

or did you not think that they could do the same as you and trawl forums such as this one looking for "evidence" ?

lukedavid92 wrote: »

Do I need to contact them before Saturday or wait for any correspondence from them.

depends on if this was in a hire/lease/company car or not (you never said)

lukedavid92 wrote: »

. I have looked on various websites which give me conflicting guidelines so I`m not sure which is the best way to go with this.

that is your fault for not reading the NEWBIES sticky thread at the top of this very forum, seeing as it has the most up to date advice in one place and as a member here for 3 years should have been the first and only place to look

the good news is you came here and asked, received excellent advice and now know where to look

so edit post #1 , decide if it was a private vehicle of your own , then read the newbies thread

also bear in mind that if this road was private (industrial estate) then you may have had no right to park there, so not being in a marked parking bay could be irrelevant - private land is private, so you may have been trespassing (there are many private industrial estates where this holds true, especially the notorious one in Ipswich , Ransomes Europark , dealt with by Proserve) - see here http://parking-prankster.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/proserve-business-model-exposed-as-sham.html

lukedavid92

I have now received a notice to keeper which does say that they are required by law to inform me of under Schedule 4 of the Protection of Freedom Act 2012 relating to paragraphs (1),a 7,(2) a,b,c,d,e and f within the notice which is conflicting with the information I would be putting in the template letter I would be sending.
They also mention informing me of sub paragraphs sections 8.e (1), 8.e (2) & also 8.f, (1) (2). Have these details in the NTK changed in any way or does it not make any difference to the information that I include in my appeal letter(sections a to e). Sorry to ask,just trying to clarify before sending. Thanks in advance.

iainscomputer

I had a windscreen ticket from UKCPS, sent in a draft appeal from this site after receiving the NTK, a few weeks later, a reply dropping the charge, a goodwill gesture on their part!!

Coupon-mad

lukedavid92 wrote: »

I have now received a notice to keeper which does say that they are required by law to inform me of under Schedule 4 of the Protection of Freedom Act 2012 relating to paragraphs (1),a 7,(2) a,b,c,d,e and f within the notice which is conflicting with the information I would be putting in the template letter I would be sending.
They also mention informing me of sub paragraphs sections 8.e (1), 8.e (2) & also 8.f, (1) (2). Have these details in the NTK changed in any way or does it not make any difference to the information that I include in my appeal letter(sections a to e). Sorry to ask,just trying to clarify before sending. Thanks in advance.

Makes no odds. Stop taking it so seriously and stop reading it like it's something special! No, nothing has changed so now is the keeper's moment to appeal. The template appeal letter (which I have recently changed a bit to keep them on their toes) does NOT conflict with the NTK (that is NOT a compliant NTK).

lukedavid92

One last question. If you have any pictures relating to the parking area & any other reason you have to explain why you believe the ticket is unjust would you send them with your appeal?

EnigmaPart1

lukedavid92 wrote: »

One last question. If you have any pictures relating to the parking area & any other reason you have to explain why you believe the ticket is unjust would you send them with your appeal?

No you might as well send a dead cat.

Coupon-mad

lukedavid92 wrote: »

One last question. If you have any pictures relating to the parking area & any other reason you have to explain why you believe the ticket is unjust would you send them with your appeal?

No point, and also a danger you may type who parked/was driving in your keenness to give your 'story of what happened'. DON'T!