A little bit of guidance

Nimbo1842

Evening,

I have just spend the last hour reading through i number of websites concerning parking tickets and i have found this the most helpful.
I have just received a letter today request £100 for my wife parking 31 minutes longer than apparently she should have. I would obviously like to appeal this but want to make sure that i am using the right template.

I have read the template on "Newbies! Need help with a private parking ticket? Read this before posting!!!!!!!!!!" page and think that this fits but there is a bit extra i believe i can add.
The Parking charge notice is from ce-service (civil enforcement Ltd) so firstly is that template correct.

Secondly the incident date occurred on 31/10/2014 and the PCN was issued on 17/11/2014 arriving on 18/11/2014 which i believe (if i've read everything correctly) falls outside of the 14 day relevant period - maths is 31th was a Friday, 14days after that is 15th if you take 1st and 2nd as a weekend then the notice should have reached me by 17th not issued on the 17th.

So in short should i use the template and is there a valid reason for the relevant period??

thank you

Nimbo1842

On reading further under section 8 of the protection of freedom act 2012 it states that the notice should inform the keeper that the driver is required to pay the parking charges, which is doesn't.

Also they spelt my surname wrong on the notice.

bazster

Weekends count too, so a notice issued for a parking event on 31st should've arrived by 14th, so if they've dated it 17th they've shot themselves in the foot big time.

Unless there was a windscreen ticket first, in which case they've screwed it up the other way: they've sent it far too soon.

The timings are specified in the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 Schedule 4. If they fail to keep to the statutory timeframes then they cannot hold the vehicle keeper liable, only the driver, so be careful when appealing not to reveal who that was. In the same vein by all means add all the deficiencies in the notice to your appeal. The misspelled surname is irrelevant if it's a minor typo.

Nimbo1842

Thank you bazster, does the standard template on the newbie section fit my circumstances? so new to this but finding it very interesting how companies like this operate.

Coupon-mad

Yes it does fit a CEL PCN. In fact in the Newbies thread I do mention Civil Enforcement as one that 'never issues a POFA compliant NTK' so the fact it was outside 14 days is not relevant - they could have sent it later as it's not under the Act (they know that, and now you have spotted it). It's not a 'keeper liability' version of a NTK, CEL don't have one.

Ergo the keeper wins on appeal at POPLA stage.