UK CPS Ltd - parking charge notice

wilfordkenton

Good Evening all,
I'm looking for some advice for my 18 year old son. I have read the sticky post for Newbies at the top of this Forum section and I believe starting a new thread is what's required for this topic. (Please forgive me if i am incorrect, i'm quite new to all this)


I have also searched and read many, many posts and threads that relate to this company. And that's what has confused me even more!


So my son went to ******** at the weekend in his car and parked in a 24hr car park. The charge was £4 for 24 hours. He paid for a ticket and put it on the dashboard on the drivers side.


The ticket was time and date stamped:
Paid Until 17:28 5 Dec 15
P03 £4.00
**** ******



Then in text on the bottom it states 17:28 151204 (which i am presuming is the date of the ticket scrambled?)


Today at work, he noticed a Parking Charge Notice tucked under the windowscreen wiper on the passenger side.


He has come home quite distressed that this as happened as he paid for the ticket and is very concious about his self funded car and lack of funds to pay the charge.


The notice sounds like a typical UK CPS Ltd notice, £60 rising to £100, registered office (Leeds), no VAT details etc. It was issued with the following details:
04 DEC 15 1811hrs first observed at 1806hrs.
Without a valid permit or authority.


Now my heart wants to tell me to get in touch with the PPC and tell them he had a ticket and send them a copy, and that would be the end of it. But after doing some research, my head is now telling me it may not be as easy as that.


I have looked them up and can see they are members of the IPC and therefore i have posted a new thread as directed in the newbies thread.


I have told my lad not to worry about it and taken that pressure off him. If it needs to be paid i will sort it, but it just seems so wrong that they can do this.


Any advice on what my best course of action would be?

Redx

appeal it as KEEPER around day 18 with a copy of the paid for ticket and adapting the BLUE appeal letter from that NEWBIES sticky thread

no explanations, no naming the driver

complain to the landowner too

dont expect this to be dropped , assume they will chase it and not accept any appeals

they may offer the kangaroo court (the IAS)

dont expect them to uphold the appeal either

a judge might however, if it went that far