UKPC parking ticket

HilaryMilne

I received a ticket from the UKPC on Friday while my daughter was at an interview at Napier University in Edinburgh, I popped out to take my other daughter to the toilet and came back to a ticket, do I need to pay this or do I ignore it ? please help as I don't want to pay £50.00 if I can avoid it?

Umkomaas

As this is a Scotland parking event, just ignore the correspondence from UKPC. Complain as the vehicle's registered keeper (not driver) to the Uni and ask them to intervene. But if they won't, it's no big deal, still ignore UKPC. 

Do you also live in Scotland?

HilaryMilne

Thank you for that , yes we live in Scotland but not Edinburgh 

Umkomaas

HilaryMilne said:

Thank you for that , yes we live in Scotland but not Edinburgh 

You're bombproof in Scotland at the moment as long as the identity of the driver is not revealed (there is no keeper liability law north of the border); this will change sometime in the next year or so, but will not be retrospective. 

Coupon-mad

HilaryMilne said:

Thank you for that , yes we live in Scotland but not Edinburgh 

Obviously ignore it then, and ALL debt demands.

You are lucky that in 2023 you don't yet have 'keeper liability' but it is coming:
https://www.cas.org.uk/news/dont-park-tougher-rules-private-parking-firms-warns-cas

DO NOT bother to contact UKPC and DO NOT bother to even read the silly debt demands.

Laugh at them and inform your driving family about the upcoming law change so you are all more careful to read signs in 2024.  Even when just sitting in a car you are parked, so you are ALWAYS safer in a side street than on private land.

Avoid private car parks whenever possible.  Just leave within five minutes and park on-street.  If picking someone up from a station or premises, ALWAYS wait on street.

Your country is (in a year) about to suffer the tsunami of millions of fake PCNs that E&W motorists are already drowning in.  As a family, consciously start avoiding all private car parks (that means any land that isn't Council operated).

Even Supermarkets are private land, as are university halls and most estates with private flats, so read signs and AVOID.

UKPC will not sue in Scotland.  Things might change (obviously not retrospectively!) once keeper liability goes through but then you will have a fair and independent parking appeals service and lower parking charges, thanks to the new law.

Even in future, we know that most PPCs will not sue in Scotland over single PCNs because your country bans costs being added to a claim under £300.  i.e. they'd lose money even if they won the £100 case.

Certainly won't happen in your case.