Updated: Ticket Cancelled by UKPC :)

UKPC are fraudsters

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/11858473/Parking-firm-UKPC-admits-faking-tickets-to-fine-drivers.html

The whole industry is a scam, relying on threats of court, and the public's ignorance of the Law, A bill is currently before parliament which will regulate the scammers, many of whom are ex-clampers.

This is an entirely unregulated industry which is scamming the public with inflated claims for minor breaches of alleged contracts for alleged parking offences, aided and abetted by a handful of low-rent solicitors. Is has been suggested by an MP that some of these companies may have connections to organised crime.

Parking Eye, CPM, Smart, (especially Smart}, and others have already been named and shamed in the House of Commons as have Gladstones Solicitors, and BW Legal, (these two law firms take hundreds of these cases to court each week), hospital car parks and residential complex tickets have been especially mentioned. They lose most of them, and have been reported to the regulatory authority by an M.P. for unprofessional conduct

The problem has become so widespread that MPs have agreed to enact a Bill to regulate these scammers.

Sir Greg Knight's Private Members Bill to curb the excesses, and perhaps close down, some of these companies passed its Second Reading in the Lords this month, and, with a fair wind, will l become Law later this year..

All five readings are available to watch on the internet, (some 7-8 hours), and published in Hansard. MPs have an extremely low opinion of the industry. Many are complaining that they are becoming overwhelmed by complaints from members of the public. Add to their burden, complain in the most robust terms about the scammers.

Absolutely do NOT use this evidence yet:

parked next to some paces that had permanent signs (on posts) behind them and then there are 4-5 places with non-fixed signs propped up against a wall. When I parked the signs were not there, when I returned the signs had appeared / been moved back in to place. I've got pictures of the signs not there and a video of myself picking them all up, illustrating how they can be moved and put back.

Firstly because the video and your account implies who the driver was, and the whole point of appealing on DAY 26 (not sooner no later) is for the keeper to appeal and UKPC to forget to send a NTK at all, which still happens a lot. Don't ruin that tactic by implying who the driver was.

When you get a rejection letter use that video for POPLA as an upload alongside your PDF appeal as keeper, carefully written not to imply who was driving or who the person even is, in that video! That person was 'an occupant of the car'.

It's a funny one because the fact that you picked the signs up after parking there and before leaving the car, could be considered by POPLA to show that you saw/read the terms(!) and were aware of them all along...!

I am also thinking, whatever the outcome of your appeal, that video evidence needs emailing in the end (not now) to Steve Clark at the BPA to complain that UKPC ticketed cars already parked in an area where the signs were not yet up, but were then put up on walls.

That is the real revenge I think, as regardless of what POPLA think, UKPC can't do this.

Did you appeal to UKPC on day 26 using the template from the NEWBIES FAQ sticky, post #1?