NCP Ticket - Failure To Display At A Railway Station - Ticket Correct Purchased

Stanthedog

I recently parked at a railway station and purchased a ticket to park costing £8 (£4 per day = £8 for two days) and I displayed the ticket on my windscreen. After completing my journey and when I returned to my my vehicle I was extremely surprised to have received a parking ticket. To my horror I identified that my ticket was not displayed on my windscreen, although the sticker which adheres the ticket was still there. I immediately looked in my car and I cannot find the ticket that I purchased. I am assuming may have slipped behind the dashboard (I drive a classic 1998 4x4) and is unrecoverable without taking the whole dashboard out.
NCP have issued me a ticket for a fine of £85 reduced to £50 for payment within 14 days. I can prove that I purchased a ticket as I paid at the machine with my debit card and the transaction is visibile on my online bank statement. NCP's grounds for fining me is that I failed to display a ticket correctly. As I correctly paid for my parking I intend to appeal this fine as this is a genuine mistake. Please can anyone advise me on how I should structure my appeal as I can prove I have paid the correct fee?

In 28 years of motoring this is the first time that I have every received a ticket and it is causing much anxiety. Any help and advice is appreciated.

Umkomaas

NCP have issued me a ticket for a fine

It's not a 'fine'; it's a speculative invoice, nothing else.

Please can anyone advise me on how I should structure my appeal as I can prove I have paid the correct fee?

Irrelevant to NCP, they will not consider that a reason to cancel the ticket. They are attempting to penalise you for not displaying it. This is an unregulated skimdustry, no rules apply to them, but they produce a hundred and one rules for you to obey - otherwise a parking charge. This is the Wild West you've inadvertently stumbled into.

You use the blue text initial appeal in the NEWBIES FAQ sticky, post #1 and send that to them by the method they require as detailed on their PCN. Make sure to do so within deadline.

You could attach a copy of your bank statement (redacted) to show you paid for parking - this is more for a judge rather than NCP should this, in the very unlikely event, get to a county court claim.

After your initial appeal is rejected (which it most certainly will) use the POPLA code they give you to get POPLA to cancel. We will help again at that stage, but you should do some prior reading of post #3 of the above sticky.

Also do some forum research on 'railway byelaws' and read the many threads relating to NCP and APCOA (another PPC infesting railway station car parks) to learn how they can be easily beaten.

NCP have 35 days to respond to your initial appeal, so plenty of time for research to enable you to get one step ahead of them in dealing with this.

Stanthedog

Hi
Thank you for taking time to reply to me. Please can I check. The initial appeal letter that you refer to states with the text below


I challenge this 'PCN' as keeper of the car.I believe that your signs fail the test of 'large lettering' and prominence, as established in ParkingEye Ltd v Beavis. Your unremarkable and obscure signs were not seen by the driver, are in very small print and the terms are not readable to drivers



If I have purchased a ticket which I can prove I have done and I will be providing my bank statement as a proof of purchase, is this letter relevant or have I misinterpretted your advice?

Redx

the main issue here is not to give away the drivers or owners details, so to remain as keeper

so any proof that is submitted comes from the KEEPER as proof that the driver has paid, but if they are alleging that its failure to display then that is a different issue

and as bylaws apply its more complicated

so yes use the blue text template, adding a note that THE DRIVER paid for parking and attach redacted copies of the proof that THE DRIVER paid

Bear in mind that after 6 months the TOC cannot take the driver or owner to magistrates court , so this is one deadline you must reach (the TOC people never do this step at the moment , or up until now)

POPLA are currently putting bylaws issues on hold pending a government decision by the DoT

ps@:- if you dont understand all of this , read maybe 10 or 20 INDIGO railway threads over the last few months, until it sinks in what a sc@m it is