Parking Eye Offer to Settle for £20 on Appeal

Sherraa02

I received a letter about a parking ticket from Parking Eye back in October. This was for a work van, which I own but was not driving at the time.

The ticket was incurred while my driver was delivering and setting up some equipment there. I appealed on the basis we were "working on site". They asked for proof and I provided our job sheets etc but these aren't routinely signed by anyone on site so the appeal was rejected. They have, however, as a "gesture of goodwill" offered to accept a payment of £20. 

The original fine was £60 if paid in 14 days, so part of me feels it's just £20 and I should probably accept it and pay. However the fact they are offering this feels like a concession because they think I'm in the right and if I appealed to POPLA or fought the case, they think I would win? Do they normally offer a reduced rate like this, as I haven't come across this before?

 Any advice? 

B789

Having read the Newbies thread near the top of this forum... I'm assuming you have, then Plan A is your first option. Contact the land owner or event people you were contracted to carry out work for to get this quashed.

Failing that, do you consider paying £20 to add to the profits of a scavenging private parking companies acceptable? There are multiple arguments you can use to fight this. Firstly, can you tell us where this took place and show us the original PCN (redacted).

Was the van "parked" or was it just unloading? Big difference there, to start with.

It's your money and ultimately it will come down to how principled you are about being ripped off by a private company with a reputation for scamming and bleeding gullible people out of their hard earned cash.

Fight or pay?

Coupon-mad

This is normal for ParkingEye, to keep landowners sweet.

Try to get the landowner to lean on PE to cancel it this week, in full.  If that fails, pay the £20 because you will lose at POPLA.