Advice on PE PCN required

Hi all,

I have spent the last 2 days trawling through this forum (and others) in the hope that I might find the right course of action regardng a PCN we received from Parking Lie last week. I have read the newbies section and appreciate the resistance to new threads but I could not find a clear answer so I have had to start a new thread.

On 30/5/19 my wife parked in an Aldi car park and went over the 1.5 hours limit by 34 minutes on the day in question but she is 36 weeks pregnant imparing her ability to move at a normal pace, suffering from pelvis pain (PGP) and having to take regular breaks as she goes about her business. She bought some bits in Aldi but also took the short walk to a local shopping precinct to visit other shops and buy a coffee.

Sadly she did not hang on to her receipt and paid in cash, however, we do use the branch very regularly as it is close to our places of work so we will have card statements showing regular visits.

In an ideal world I would appeal to PE's better nature and argue that special dispensation should be afforded to pregnant women in so much as allowing additional leeway in terms of the grace periods and the realistic time it takes a pregant woman to shop. However, having read various posts I appreciate that this would fail!

So, before I send the inital appeal to PE I wanted to see if I was wasting my time because:

• The PCN was issued in the correct time limits.
• We do not have the 'Golden Ticket' - it all seems to be in order.
• I am not sure just the Maternity section of the Equality Act is enough to uphold an appeal to either PE or POPLA

I plan on checking the signage tonight as I need to shop after work anyway.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!