Would anyone fight this? - ES parking pcn

Gillidove · 20 February 2019 at 5:50PM

I received a pcn from ES Parking today. It relates to a week ago when I parked at a local car park I use frequently, realised I had no change and probably stupidly nipped into a shop to get some before buying a ticket. The only shop still trading around there was Iceland so you can imagine it took a few minutes behind a queue of trolleys. I had asked another car park user who couldn’t change £10, and there is no facility to pay by card. I had looked around to see if anyone was around to explain I d just be a few minutes, but hadn t seen anyone. I had no knowledge of the pcn until today and it’s come from a person photographing the car, not ANPR cameras on the site. I feel this person had seen me and pounced straight away as the time on the notice was about the time I would have arrived. I have read all the newbies stuff, this is an IAS appeal on the back of the letter so feel I am unlikely to win appeals, member of ipc. Technically I am at fault as the time the ticket was issued, I hadn t paid, even though I feel they played dirty to issue it. I tend to keep old tickets in my door pocket but my oh has a habit of clearing them out (same as using change I leave in car and not replacing) and I no longer have the ticket as I wasn t aware of the pcn. I seem to understand there is no grace period to get change? The signage is all very clear so I can t try that one with them. Guessing lesson learned and don t use that car park without change again? Just been made redundant so even the £60 reduced fee is a lot to me and at this time don t think I could handle stress of whether they would take to it court. Would any of you guys / ladies try to appeal or just hands up and pay?