Help with National Parking Enforcement charge

NathanDrake

I was parked in the carpark outside a group of flats for 10 minutes to drop something off to a person living there and recieved a parking charge notification.

I searched on this forum and found some advise which I followed althoug I admit to not really grasping the reasoning. This lead to send this as a response:

I am not ignoring your charge for a purported parking infraction. As the driver has not been identified, I require the following information so that I can make an informed decision:

1. Who is the party that contracted with your company? I require their contact details and the full identity of the landowner.
2. Is your charge based on damages for breach of contract? Answer yes or no.
3. If the charge is based on damages for breach of contract please provide your justification of this sum.
4. Is your charge based on an agreed 'fee' for the provision of parking? Answer yes or no. If so, please provide a valid VAT invoice for this 'service'.
5. Please provide a copy of the signs that you can evidence were on site and which you contend formed a contract with the driver on that occasion, as well as all photographs taken of this vehicle.

Do not send debt collector letters and do not add any costs which would be a thinly-veiled attempt at 'double recovery', specifically prohibited by the POFA 2012 Schedule 4. I will not respond to debt collectors and to involve a third party would be a failure to mitigate your costs as well as deliberate and knowing misuse of my data. For the avoidance of doubt, I do not consent to my data being shared or processed by you or your agents.

I contend you have failed to establish keeper liability. So, to continue to process my data now that you have exhausted your only DVLA-allowed purpose (i.e. to invite me to name the driver, which I decline outright) would be wholly unreasonable and contrary to the Data Protection principles. To share, sell, store or process my data at all now you are aware that you have no further excuse or reasonable cause, will be data misuse and I will report you to the Information Commissioner.

I deny liability for any sum at all and you should consider this letter a Section 10 Notice under the DPA. You are required to respond within 21 days.

Yours faithfully,

They have now replied with this:

Thank you for your appeal received on 02/12/2016 regarding the above detailed Parking Charge Notice. We have reviewed
the case and considered the comments that you have made. This appeal has been considered in conjunction with the
evidence gathered by the photographic evidence and parking attendants notes (where applicable). Our records show that the
notice was correctly issued as your vehicle was parked in breach of the Terms and Conditions of Parking.
The decision in the Parking Eye v Beavis case has been handed down by the Supreme Court on 4th November 2015. The
judgement confirms parking regimes which impose charges where motorists overstay or breach the terms of their contractual
licence to park are enforceable charges. The summary to the judgement can be found here (I'm not allowed to post links so I had to take the hyperlink out)
We are therefore unable to cancel the Parking Charge Notice as it was issued correctly. We have now extended the
discounted payment period by 14 days to allow you time to pay the discounted settlement amount. Please now make payment
of £60 to reach us by 01/02/2017 or £100 to reach us by 15/02/2017. We must advise you that once the discounted settlement
rate passes it will not be offered again.
We are under no obligation to provide you with the information you have requested and we can confirm that we not failed to
establish keeper liability. As you have not provided any appeal points, we have not considered it on this occasion.
Payments can be made by cheque or postal order made payable to National Parking Enforcement Ltd. Please ensure you
write your Parking Charge Notice number clearly on the reverse. Please do not send cash through the post. Payment can be
made using a debit or credit card by calling the automated payment line on 0333 0066292 (please be aware that a £1.50
processing fee will be added).
If you wish to contest our decision, please send your representations within 21 days from the date of this
letter. Please note that if you wish to appeal to IAS the reduced charge will no longer be offered and the full charge will be
outstanding if your appeal is not successful. Please allow 12 hours from notification of rejection before appealing to IAS.

I'm not sure what I can or can't do, is there anything I can do or is it time to pay up?
Any help is much appreciated.

Fruitcake

The NEWBIES thread where you found that template tells you what to do.

1 Do not pay.
2 Ignore for the next six years unless you get real court papers (LBC/LBCC/MCOL).

There is nothing else worthwhile doing. It is believed that the IAS automatically reject 80% of appeals, so there is no reasonable or fair appeals system let for you, so start ignoring.

Coupon-mad

Ignore them and search the forum for 'NPE Norwich' to read about them some more, posts from other people in your shoes. No-one pays them!

Come back if they try a small claim (not the sharpest tools in the box, being - I think - ex-clampers under a new name).

The_Deep

Second Division iIPC scammers, appeal/ignore, your choice, but definitely complain in writing to Trading Standards about the card surcharge. It pushes the PCN over the £100 they are allowed to claim.

Grimble

Also complain about them quoting Beavis, this is not the same. As above ignore, he never does court as a claimant, mention his Police caution for VAT fraud, small time crook.