UKPC Parking Charge should i pay?

chas5671

Great news! The property owners have cancelled the parking charge. No need to appeal to POPLA. PHEW!!

Thank you so much to all of you who have taken the time to assist me with this and provide invaluable advice. I would never have had this success without you!!!

Herzlos

Send in your POPLA appeal anyway, because the PPC may refuse to play ball. You've already written it so there's nothing to lose.

Lotus6

After the specified time period of the allegation, I received a demand for £100 payment from UKPC stating that:
"... a driver of my car parked on a retail-complex car park and then left the car park confines; which was against the clearly listed rules for the use of the parking space"

I viewed the evidence offered on UKPCs website and could see a number of pictures of my car at the named car park, with a yellow 'parking notice' envelope stuck on the windscreen.

I wrote the following directly to UKPC :

Vehicle Registration Number: XXX 0000
Parking Charge Notice Number: 11111111111
Parking Charge Notice Issue Date: xx/xx/2016

Parking attendant written claim:
Vehicle owner/driver left site.

Please supply the evidence provided by the parking attendant that the driver left the xxxxxxx xxxx Retail Park site at any time while car registration number XXX 0000 remained parked on the occasion of the single specified visit on XX/XX/2016.
As specified in:
Schedule four; Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 :paragraph 8; sub-paragraph 7:
'When the notice is given it must be accompanied by any evidence prescribed under paragraph 10'

Keeper of XXX 0000
Name
Address

Their 'Appeals Dept' replied: referring to "...my appeal"
1 ........ that they would consider my appeal if I supplied them with a retail receipt to prove my visit to the retail site.
2 They would reduce my 'fine' to £60 if I paid immediately.

I replied with a letter that:

Denied that I was appealing against anything
Re-stated the requirement to provide proof that the driver left the confines of the car park
Gave a 14 day period to provide that proof or I would deem the matter to be closed.

I now have a letter of apology from UKPC for 'any inconvenience caused.'

If the photos do not clearly support their claim of 'rule breaking':

Wait until they find you...
Don't provide UKPC with confirmation that they are communicating with the driver.
Don't 'Appeal' anything, request proof of the allegation
Keep the pressure up by replying by return of post and
Get 'proof of posting from the PO ' to know they have signed to receive the letter at their end
Make no comment on the accusation, only 'up' the demand for proof of the claim against you
Refute that you are appealing... for you would only appeal if you were admitting fault
Set reasonable dead-lines for their action.

The_Deep

Lotus, the thread you are posting on is over 9 months old, and has nothing to do with a retail park.