PCN from PCS - advice please?

nickhj28

I'm contesting a parking charge for a Lidl car park run by LDK Security Gp Ltd. I've read the sticky threads but still have some questions, as my situation is not straightforward...

When I parked there for the first time (in my partner's car, last Dec) I was not aware that a charge applied so didn't buy a ticket. In Jan she received an NTK letter from PCS asking for £125, saying that a parking ticket had been ignored. We paid only the £45 charge, along with a letter saying that the additional £85 was unreasonable, as that was the first we knew about any ticket. After another letter, I appealed to PCS online. They've just responded with a Notice of Liability letter and an email with photographic "evidence".

I'm now wondering what to do next - ignore / complain to Lidl / complain to LDK (instead of PCS) / POPLA appeal?

Some more details:

- The photos from PCS show a yellow parking ticket under the wiper blade on passenger side, not 'affixed to windscreen', so could easily have fallen off without me seeing it.
- More interestingly another photo shows a ticket (the one you're supposed to buy on the way in... if the signs were less confusing!) on the *outside* of my windscreen, with times 12 to 13.30. This pic was taken at 14:54 as "proof" that I'd overstayed.
- I definitely didn't put that ticket there - didn't know such tickets existed at that point, and in any case have never stayed more than an hour in that car park - Lidl just isn't that exciting :-) so this looks like some amateurish frame-up attempt to me!
- The proper method of using that car park (as I now know) is to stop on the way in and buy a ticket, with handwritten arrive/depart times, for £1. If you spend £5 in Lidl you can reclaim your quid. So the maximum loss to LDK of me parking without a ticket was actually £0!!. Which makes me think I should be asking them for my £45 back really...

Thanks to anyone who's read this far - any help appreciated.

Nick

Redx

you wont get anywhere with any of the above, private parking is not regulated , although a lot of it is a sc@m , so you are correct ehre, which is why we get so many threads on this forum

you wont get a popla code so popla is out of the question, its either pay in full or ignore for 6 years

you could try complaining to lidl and giving them copies of receipts or bank statements, as they hired these parasites

you went about this completely the wrong way, learn the rules of the "game" so the next time you are better prepared !