UKCPS - Advice Please!!

juddyrivers

Good afternoon,

In July of this year my wife was issued with a car parking ticket from UKCPS, the offence being for parked outside of a marked bay. On the day of the offence there was a 10k run In our local village resulting in a large influx of people, my wife visited the local co op shop to purchase some groceries and as there were no spaces left she parked outside of a bay but caused no obstruction. She was only in the shop 10 minutes and returned to find a ticket on her windscreen.

Her research at the time resulted in us making the decision to simply ignore the ticket and not make the request for payment. We subsequently received a 'Notice to Keeper' letter saying we had 28 days to respond and and last week a 'Notification Letter' saying we had 14 days in which to reply.

I am little concerned just ignoring the ticket was the wrong decision and that we should have made an official challenge.

If anybody could offer me some advice as to where to go from here it would be very much appreciated.

Many thanks.

Redx

its not an "offence, nor a "fine", its a speculative invoice

yes you should have appealed but that is unlikely to have done you or her any good

then they have thr IAS for appeals, again unlikely to win there as its a kangaroo "court"

this leaves you in IGNORE MODE for 6 years unless they serve court papers (they are in control , not you)

if you can get the landowner to cancel the charge, do so, otherwise its weather the harassment for 6 years, until the small claims statute runs out (there is no easy fix , no easy getout)

in future, follow the advice in the NEWBIES sticky thread, that tells you what to do, and why, and when