Can I go back and pay to avoid ticket

basscadette

I parked today in a car park affiliated to our local hospital but at a different site . I was in a hurry for my son's appointment and carrying a car seat with a baby and holding a toddlers hand across the busy car park so I just didn't see that it was a paid for car park (it didn't used to be). Anyway, in we went and then went to leave. In my rear view mirror I saw the signs for paid parking at the entrance to a different car park which is an offshoot to the one I was in, so when I go home, I googled only to find out they introduced Parking Eye there 2 years ago SO I've parked without paying for just over an hour.

The hospital site say you can pay after leaving if you didn't have change with a simple phone transaction. I simply cannot find a way to pay retrospectively nor find the location code. I have joined 'paybyphone' just to do this but it doesn't offer a way to pay for earlier today.

Im so stressed about getting a notice for an oversight. My husband suggested going back tomorrow and paying for two hours then leaving so I am making good the mistake but will this be enough or will they still want to screw money out of me that I don't have? Surely offering to correct the mistake before they take action counts for something?

Any help is appreciated here. I did not set out not to pay for parking in any way.

Redx

I doubt this strategy would work , they would say you didnt pay for parking at the time , so you can expect an NTK in the post within 14 days regardless of what you do

they have hooked the fish and now want payback, which will be more like £80 to £100 and not a few pounds

so you wait for NTK and then appeal as per the NEWBIES sticky thread at the top of this forum, on legal arguments

if at the end of the day you win, donate the money you should have paid to a suitable hospice or charity

ampersand

'Surely offering to correct the mistake before they take action counts for something?'

They couldn't care less. You are a cash cow for these jackals. Who easier to fleece than someone with a hospital visit on their mind, let alone with baby and toddler in tow?

Do as Redx says. Hospital parking is one of his areas of expertise.

What did the hospital say when you complained that their retrospective site was inaccessible?...you did complain, didn't you?

More reading on Parking Prankster's blog, which is indispensible. Loads here:
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=parking+prankster+hospital+parking&rlz=1C1GGIT_enGB308GB353&oq=parking+prankster+hospital+parking&aqs=chrome..69i57.6315j0j7&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8

-also google daily mail+hospital parking.
https://www.google.co.uk/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&rlz=1C1GGIT_enGB308GB353&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=daily%20mail%20hospital%20parking
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'will they still want to screw money out of me that I don't have?' - oh, yes.

It won't happen if you read/act as advised on these Threads. People will help you, so send nothing without running it past us first.

Coupon-mad

basscadette wrote: »

I parked today in a car park affiliated to our local hospital but at a different site . I was in a hurry for my son's appointment and carrying a car seat with a baby and holding a toddlers hand across the busy car park so I just didn't see that it was a paid for car park (it didn't used to be). Anyway, in we went and then went to leave. In my rear view mirror I saw the signs for paid parking at the entrance to a different car park which is an offshoot to the one I was in, so when I go home, I googled only to find out they introduced Parking Eye there 2 years ago SO I've parked without paying for just over an hour.

The hospital site say you can pay after leaving if you didn't have change with a simple phone transaction. I simply cannot find a way to pay retrospectively nor find the location code. I have joined 'paybyphone' just to do this but it doesn't offer a way to pay for earlier today.

Im so stressed about getting a notice for an oversight. My husband suggested going back tomorrow and paying for two hours then leaving so I am making good the mistake but will this be enough or will they still want to screw money out of me that I don't have? Surely offering to correct the mistake before they take action counts for something?

Any help is appreciated here. I did not set out not to pay for parking in any way.

Who cares - we always beat PE at POPLA. Sorry but it only needs 2 appeals already written for you, as shown in the Newbies thread. Hardly stressful!

basscadette

Hi, thank you for all replies. People are really great to give advice like this. I have been awaiting my inevitable ticket and now have it.

I have copied the appeal to PE in full, and added my own gripe as above to the end. I was just wanting to know if I should offer the £2 in my initial appeal (and perhaps a tenner for admin costs) since I say their charge is OTT. I don't mind paying what I owe. BTW for info, the charge is £40 in 14 days, £70 thereafter.

I am guessing not but did wonder if by offering they might just take the money and drop it?

TIA :-)

basscadette

Coupon-mad wrote: »

Who cares - we always beat PE at POPLA. Sorry but it only needs 2 appeals already written for you, as shown in the Newbies thread. Hardly stressful!

Haha ok. I have a lot on so this is just added stress, not stressful in itself. Very comforting that there is a 100% success rate. You guys are great :T

Herzlos

basscadette wrote: »

Hi, thank you for all replies. People are really great to give advice like this. I have been awaiting my inevitable ticket and now have it.

I have copied the appeal to PE in full, and added my own gripe as above to the end. I was just wanting to know if I should offer the £2 in my initial appeal (and perhaps a tenner for admin costs) since I say their charge is OTT. I don't mind paying what I owe. BTW for info, the charge is £40 in 14 days, £70 thereafter.

I am guessing not but did wonder if by offering they might just take the money and drop it?

TIA :-)

They won't drop it, so there's no point in even offering. It'll only make you look like you can be pestered into paying the full amount.

basscadette

Super. That's all I needed to know thank you :-)

ezerscrooge

Offer them nowt. Just go with the standard template.

And it's clear that their signs are rubbish if you didn't see them.

You'll see them off with the appeals on here - then you'll feel quite emboldened when you see similar money grabbing garbage in other car parks.

Coupon-mad

I hope you haven't added your own gripe that actually gives away who was driving in spite of the careful wording of the template ?

basscadette

No, I was very careful about that following the warnings in the newbie thread. It was a bit easier in this case as the registered keeper is not the driver. (genuinely). I referred only to 'the driver' or referred to no-one at all (eg: 'no signs were present' rather than 'i didn't see any signs').