NTK - Not parked correctly within the bay markings - Should I appeal with mitigating circumstances?

Coupon-mad

crunch89 said:

Positive update;

We managed to finally get in contact with a senior manager of shopping centre. After looking at the pictures, she said she will contact UKPC to ask them to have the PCN cancelled and seemed quite sympathetic to my wife's case.

Do we need do anything else? We did not end up appealing via UKPC (letter was dated 24/03/23) - so I just wanted to be sure that the manager's word (which we have on email) is enough for us to assume that this is the end of the issue.

Nope.  But it is easy to draw this to a close.

Just appeal online to UKPC stating that the retail manager has cancelled it and you would like them to treat this as your appeal and either confirm acceptance and PCN cancellation, or issue a POPLA code.

crunch89

Just checked and seems like it has been cancelled.

I want to say thank you for all your help and advice. The likes of Coupon-mad, B789, Umkomaas, KeithP (and I'm sure plenty of others) - you all have written 1000s of posts offering help and advice to people; a lot of forum users will disappear as quickly as they appeared once they have received the information needed; however you all continue to offer your time to help everyone and without that, this forum would be worth a lot less.

The only way this cowboy industry is going to stop is if more people fight unfair tickets and follow the advice in this forum. Paying the fine can often seem the easy way out, but this only enables their predatory behaviour and gives them more ammunition to issue ridiculous parking tickets.



(By the way, we had a baby girl last week. )

Umkomaas

(By the way, we had a baby girl last week. )

Significantly better news than even a PCN cancellation - fullest congratulations.

I want to say thank you for all your help and advice. The likes of Coupon-mad, B789, Umkomaas, KeithP (and I'm sure plenty of others) - you all have written 1000s of posts offering help and advice to people; a lot of forum users will disappear as quickly as they appeared once they have received the information needed; however you all continue to offer your time to help everyone and without that, this forum would be worth a lot less.

The only way this cowboy industry is going to stop is if more people fight unfair tickets and follow the advice in this forum. Paying the fine can often seem the easy way out, but this only enables their predatory behaviour and gives them more ammunition to issue ridiculous parking tickets.

"The only thing necessary for evil to triumph in the world is that good men (and women) do nothing" (or for an easy life, pay private parking tickets)

KeithP

crunch89 said:

We managed to finally get in contact with a senior manager of shopping centre. After looking at the pictures, she said she will contact UKPC to ask them to have the PCN cancelled and seemed quite sympathetic to my wife's case.

@crunch89, can you please provide more details on how you contacted this helpful person?
Email address? Phone number? 
That information will be useful for the next victim.

crunch89

KeithP said:

@crunch89, can you please provide more details on how you contacted this helpful person?
Email address? Phone number? 
That information will be useful for the next victim.

So I did manage to locate their management offices on a recent visit. In case anyone has any issues in the future and you want to see them in person, it is quite hidden, but you'll find management in the same end where the toilets are located (next to Choice).

We managed to get a response from the manager after having contacted them on the website:
https://thebroadwalkcentre.co.uk/contact-us/

crunch89

We received this letter from UKPC after the ticket was cancelled