Notice to Keeper - 14 day limit? NTK - Liverpool Airport - No Stopping

BigBlueSky

A family member has just received a 'Charge Notice (CN)' titled 'Notice to Keeper (NTK)' at Liverpool John Lennon Airport.  It is issued by Vehicle Control Services Limited.  "Recorded by 'Mobile Enforcement Cameras (CCTV) at the Privately Operated access roads."

It says reason for this charge:  46) Stopping in a zone where stopping is prohibited.

The event occurred on 26/06/2023 and the issue date of the notice was 12/07/2023 even though it only arrived today 19/07/2023.

It was the early hours of the morning, it was very dark and were not aware of the no stopping around the airport.

Is there anything that can be done? - Does the 14 day Notice to keeper time restriction apply to these 'No stopping' zones around airports - as it is over the 14 days ?

Thanks in advance

Fruitcake

Airport byelaws apply so the keeper can never be held liable, and even if the PoFA 2012 was applicable, the NTK was issued too late for the keeper to held liable.

Plan A is always a complaint from the registered keeper or hirer to the landowner and their MP.

Plan B is for the registered keeper or hirer to appeal to VCS using the template in blue text from the sticky announcement for NEWBIES, and add a one liner that the airport roads are not relevant land, are covered by airport byelaws and therefore the keeper can never be held liable, plus the NTK arrived too late to hold the keeper liable even if the PoFA was applicable.

BigBlueSky

When complaining to the landowner (in this case Liverpool Airport), I assume they would still need to go along the lines of 'The driver' rather than stating who the driver was ?

KeithP

BigBlueSky said:

When complaining to the landowner (in this case Liverpool Airport), I assume they would still need to go along the lines of 'The driver' rather than stating who the driver was ?

Whenever you are talking or writing to anybody about this incident it is important that the driver's details are not divulged.
In your situation, there is no way that anyone can be made to pay anything as long as the driver remains unknown to the parking company.

B789

Your "appeal" is basically a letter that tells VCS to go swivel on a sharp stick as you are the RK. If they want to raise some money for their scam, they had better contact the driver instead. As they don't know who the driver is and you are under no obligation in civil law to reveal the identity, good luck to them.

It really is as simple as that.

Umkomaas

VCS will of course come up with their usual nonsense that they are working on the assumption that the keeper was the driver at the time, unless proved otherwise. The law does not support them, but they don't give much of a stuff for the law, you have to keep playing a straight bat.