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Highview parking notice

Hi everyone, merry Christmas.
I’ve just received a parking notice from high view parking. I have moved to Wales after holidaying here for many years and parked on what used to be a free parking car park in the winter. I know I should have checked but I didn’t. Anyway I paid Royal Mail to divert my post and the letter has taken 3 weeks to arrive since the incident so the parking fee is £70. It would have been half if I had paid earlier but it’s 4 days too late for that 🙁
I have also used the car park and not paid at least another 2 times since then, obviously I won’t do that again. Can I please have some advise, I feel like my Christmas has been ruined, it’s such an expensive time of year. Many thanks

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  • waamo
    waamo Posts: 10,298 Forumite
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    At the top of this board is a thread that tells Newbies to read it first. In the first post of that thread is a template in blue.

    Send that appeal template and see how quickly they cancel the ticket. The fastest they have been so far is 2 hours.
  • Ok, sorry. Many thanks. I am also concerned about the fact that my car has been parked there twice since so I am expecting more notices, do I do the same with those. Will they make the connection and think I am a repeat offender who ignores parking conditions? Which certainly isn’t the case, the whole episode has made me feel ill :(
  • waamo
    waamo Posts: 10,298 Forumite
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    Wwillow123 wrote: »
    Ok, sorry. Many thanks. I am also concerned about the fact that my car has been parked there twice since so I am expecting more notices, do I do the same with those. Will they make the connection and think I am a repeat offender who ignores parking conditions? Which certainly isn’t the case, the whole episode has made me feel ill :(

    Send the blue template for each ticket. Multiple tickets does make things harder but at this stage there is little else you can do.

    Make sure you have a good read of the Newbies thread though.
  • Wwillow123
    Wwillow123 Posts: 11 Forumite
    edited 24 December 2018 at 3:32PM
    The online appeal asks me to tick whether I was the driver or not, is it ok to click that I wasn’t the driver? It allows you to continue appeal without choosing one and I don’t want to do the wrong thing
  • waamo
    waamo Posts: 10,298 Forumite
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    You are appealing as the registered keeper. Never ever say, or even hint at, who the driver was.

    Watch for that box mysteriously reverting back to saying you were the driver before you hit send.
  • Thank you, I’ve sent the appeal.
  • Redx
    Redx Posts: 38,084 Forumite
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    good , rinse and repeat for any more that arrive


    no blabbing about who may have been driving


    and read the BPA CoP about the rules when a new PPC takes over a car park
  • Thanks for your help, I’ve just had an email cancelling my notice :D
    Happy new year!
  • Ralph-y
    Ralph-y Posts: 4,816 Forumite
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    well done ... but keep your eye on the ball in case more appear ....




    Ralph:cool:
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