UKCPS Ticket

jackdavis1994

Hi all,

I am looking for a bit of help.
I was visiting a David Lloyd gym this week to look around. It is based on a retail park.
I arrived and the car park was full around both sides of the gym. I decided to park in a bay right next to the gym which had white lines through it. Obviously it wasn't an actual space but i presumed it'd be okay given it was a free car park, it was full and i was visiting the same gym.

When i cam out 15 minutes later (i don't get how they put the ticket on so quickly and disappeared!!) i had a parking ticket....

I have read numerous forums but most are out of date now and i don't know what the best advice would be.
Further to this, the date on the ticket actually says 2015 and not 2016. I wonder if that on its own is enough grounds to appeal?
The number plate is also written ineligidbly on the ticket (the second letter looks like a M instead of H). Again is this grounds for appeal?

I have emailed the gym and the retail with my disgust already but had no reply.

I don't know whether to ignore (as some posts say to), whether to appeal (although unlikely to win) or to do anything else.
If the advice is appeal, any help or the letter i should send would be great.

Many Thanks in advance

Redx

not one post will tell you to IGNORE, that advice hasnt been given for over 3 years on here , I can assure you

the advice is appeal ALWAYS, to the PPC, as long as they are in the BPA or the IPC (yours is the IPC)

so read the NEWBIES sticky thread at the top of this forum and follow the IPC and IAS advice in there (so ignore BPA and ignore POPLA references)

everything you need is in there, so you need to read it, carefully , several times

ps:- no you wont win, neither appeal will succeed, so concentrate your complaints to the gym

Coupon-mad

I have read numerous forums but most are out of date now and i don't know what the best advice would be.

So read the cuurent stuff, in the sticky thread for NEWBIES to read first. It would not be in the sticky thread (which I updated just over a month ago and edit regularly) if it wasn't up to date advice.

And if you search this forum for the word 'UKCPS' you will find all the most recent threads easily, so I never understand how people end up reading old things unless they've just Googled and not noticed the dates on the random results. On this forum, a search finds recent threads first and the sticky thread advice is up to date.

Further to this, the date on the ticket actually says 2015 and not 2016.

Useful - ONLY if ever it went to court, which most do not - as long as you stick to the script and appeal only as the registered keeper who has become aware of the PCN. Do not say who was driving and I would not tip them off about the date...in case they 'reissue'!

You have no second appeal worth trying and UKCPS will reject this, so read the NEWBIES thread post #3 to understand what your options are when not bothering with IAS. You will get a Notice to keeper and you will get a rejection and then a load of letters. Only take seriously a Letter before Claim and/or real court papers.

Put more pressure on the Gym Manager, they can cancel these.