PCN for 17 mins of parking under different circumstances

FuzzyBear123

Hi all

We recently receieved a PCN from Parkingeye from a holiday Inn car park.

We were driving down the motorway when our 19 month old child was sick all down herself and filled her car seat. We left the motorway at the first exit and then the first place to stop off the motorway happened to be a holiday inn. We pulled in the car park, cleaned and changed our child and then left.

Once we got home from holiday we had recived a PCN for not paying to park at the holiday Inn. The total time in the car park was 17 mins.

When it comes to appealing do we still follow the wording in the main thread or do we tweak it to include the circumstances of our need to park, i.e child covered in sick, first exit and first/only safe place to park/pull over?

Any help/insight would be appreciated.

Side note if its relevant, the holiday Inn have stated on trip advisor, google reviews etc that they have nothing to do with the parking/any pcns that have been issued.

Thanks

Tragen

why do you think you're not liable? it was unfortunate, but you did park 19 mins and should have just paid.

Gr1pr

Parking Eye will simply state that the NTK PCN letter was issued correctly, regardless of the circumstances

A judge might take a more sympathetic view, but clearly no permission to park there was sought or paid for, at the time, before leaving

Its up to the keeper to decide which approach is worth trying, OR, if its better to ignore it for now and take the chance of a court claim. IMHO, no appeal will work, the Holiday Inn car park is for the benefit of the Holiday Inn guests

Plan A is the best option here, a sympathetic landowner, but you appear to have ruled that out

James_Poisson

Can't see what you would put in an appeal that will work with a company that only makes their vast profits out of just this type of incident, they won't have any sympathy what so ever so your story will be lost on them.

You weren't even a customer of the hotel, so they are unlikely as you have researched to get involved either.

Unless the signage or their NTK is deficient that avenue will be a dead end, and you would need photos of the signage or lack of.

@Gr1pr has basically spelled it out, unfair as it seems that is about it.

Coupon-mad

You shouldn't have chosen a car park. Avoid them like the plague. You'd have been perfectly safe (could not have been captured by ANPR) if you'd come off the motorway and found a side street.

Always stay on the public highway, if needing to stop for an unexpected reason. Any side street or layby on the public highway would have been OK.

But the bottom line is:

Nobody has to pay private PCNs all the time the industry remains an unregulated 'Cowboy Wild West' sector and if you try the landowner complaint and an appeal and draw a blank it is a valid option to then ignore them.

Only engage if you move house or if you get a LBC or Claim Form which (surprisingly) are easier to respond to and see off, than any appeals process ever was!

Any court claims are nothing to worry about; not a single person risks a CCJ if they follow our advice and defend any claim, using our Template Defence (and defended Parking Eye claims are 90% discontinued these days). Nothing happens in the end.

No hearing, no costs, no CCJ.

Is this in England, or Wales, or Scotland?