Parking Charge appeal advice needed

Mamastr

Hi all,

I’ve received a UKPC notice which I feel is excessive under the circumstances and would like to know the views of others. I’ll keep the facts brief

1. This is in a retail park with Pay and display but offering free parking for first 3 hours
2. A ticket should be collected and displayed even if you only stay for in my case for 30minutes.
3. I completely missed point 2. I was blinkered by the thought of getting breakfast. A genuine mistake.
4. I was a genuine customer to one of the retail park restaurants with a receipt showing when I paid. (30 mins after arrival and 12 mins after my parking notice was issued)
5. It was the waitress who told me I need to show a ticket when I looked out the window of the restaurant to see my window screen with yellow envelope stuck on.
6. I was observed for less than 9 minutes
7. On exiting the building It would be unfair for me to say signage was poor. However, I genuinely missed it because I was focused on finding the restaurant amongst other retailers.
8. I understand why the control is in place (how else could 3hrs be policed) but £60/£100 charge for my presence that wouldn’t have made them a penny if I did display a ticket?
9. I actually saved them the cost of the ticket paper and ink (tongue and cheek there )
10. I was in a hire car

Any advice would be appreciated even if you feel I’m pushing water up hill due to not showing the ticket .

pogofish

If you base an appeal on that, you will fail and let yourself-in for more trouble down the line.

Please edit your OP to remove all reference/implication to who might have been driving. PPCs do trawl this board to try and identify people and cause them further grief.

Then go to the appropriate Forum - Parking Tickets and start by reading the Newbies Sticky, carefully. That will inform you properly and lay-out your options for challenging this successfully.

Then PM a board Guide to get this thread moved over there as the complete futility of getting viable help in this forum is well established.

Warwick_Hunt

Mamastr wrote: »

Hi all,

I’ve received a UKPC notice which I feel is excessive under the circumstances and would like to know the views of others. I’ll keep the facts brief

1. This is in a retail park with Pay and display but offering free parking for first 3 hours
2. A ticket should be collected and displayed even if you only stay for in my case for 30minutes.
3. I completely missed point 2. I was blinkered by the thought of getting breakfast. A genuine mistake.
4. I was a genuine customer to one of the retail park restaurants with a receipt showing when I paid. (30 mins after arrival and 12 mins after my parking notice was issued)
5. It was the waitress who told me I need to show a ticket when I looked out the window of the restaurant to see my window screen with yellow envelope stuck on.
6. I was observed for less than 9 minutes
7. On exiting the building It would be unfair for me to say signage was poor. However, I genuinely missed it because I was focused on finding the restaurant amongst other retailers.
8. I understand why the control is in place (how else could 3hrs be policed) but £60/£100 charge for my presence that wouldn’t have made them a penny if I did display a ticket?
9. I actually saved them the cost of the ticket paper and ink (tongue and cheek there )
10. I was in a hire car

Any advice would be appreciated even if you feel I’m pushing water up hill due to not showing the ticket .

Why don't not you think you should pay?

RichardD1970

Warwick_Hunt wrote: »

Why don't not you think you should pay?

Why should he?

He was in a free car park for 30mins and they want him to pay them £60/£100 for making a simple mistake (leaving aside all the other issues that go with PPCs).

OP, take pogofish's advice and get this moved to avoid muppets like the above.

AdrianC

Or you could look at an alternative scenario...

You parked there to do something else/go somewhere else briefly. You returned, saw the ticket, and decided to patronise one of the establishments to give you a cover story...

System

You're paying. If you don't pay the parking ticket the hire company will be billed for it. I can guarantee they'll charge the credit/debit card you used to pay for the car hire.

takman

pogofish wrote: »

Please edit your OP to remove all reference/implication to who might have been driving. PPCs do trawl this board to try and identify people and cause them further grief.

Show me some evidence of this ever happening considering the OP hasn't given their name or the name of the location. There is no way to identify the OP from the general information they have given and no court would accept that post as evidence.

The ironic thing is that the OP never actually mentioned they were driving, they simple said they were "in a hire car".

The paranoia of the parking board must have increased since i last saw one of these posts.