Parking Charge Notice

[pauline360]

Hiya this is my first post so please be gentle with me :-)

Today I received a parking charge through the post from Civil Enforcement people saying I have been fined £100 but if I pay it with in 14 days it will be reduced to £75, the alleged offence was on the 28/09/2013. My husband had the car that day, he went to the local cinema and parked on their car park, he has been to the cinema today and asked them about it but they said there is nothing they can do and loads of people have been fined there is a notice up about parking but it doesn't say how long you can stay for free. I always thought you can only get parking tickets from traffic wardens or the police and they are usually stuck on your windscreen? I really don't know what to do about this. is it possible some one could enlighten me about it and point me in the right direction.

Thank you

Pauline360

[mystery1]

Re: Parking Charge Notice

These are little more than speculative invoices which have no statutory regime behind them.

The best thing to do is follow the appeals process which 99% will get rejected but the rejection should get you a popla code which if you write a decent effort based on the winning points of others you'll win.

Winning points http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/...67&postcount=2

Popla appeals http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/...7#post59867667 More losses at the start but no losses towards the end for anyone who followed the advice and didn't appeal with a sob story !

My initial appeal to CEL would be short and sweet.

Dear Sirs,

I, as registered Keeper, wish to invoke your appeals process. The charges are penal and not a genuine pre estimate of loss. No signage was seen and no contract was entered in to.

Yours etc.

Await them telling you that you must pay or indeed must name the driver (err don't think so). Once you get your popla code when your appeal is refused then you can do a decent popla appeal such as http://www.legalbeagles.info/forums/...ter&highlight= which should get rid of them.

If you can get a pic of the signage it'll not go to waste either.

M1

[ostell]

Re: Parking Charge Notice

If this is a notice to keeper after using ANPR equipment then it would appear that CEL have missed the 14 day deadline and can no longer pursue the keeper, only the driver. I reckon it was 18 days.

POFA para 9 (5).

Remind them of that, as well as the items above.

[bluebottle]

Re: Parking Charge Notice

Alleged evidence of alleged parking infringements from ANPR and CCTV equipment does not, in itself, amount to evidence that would, in my opinion, stand up to scrutiny or cross-examination, in a court of law. The only evidence that is most likely to stand up to scrutiny are photographs of a vehicle parked in a parking space. These must have a timecoding burned into each photograph which shows the date(s) and time(s) at which photographs have been taken.

However, there is an issue with the use of digital photographs as evidence; thanks to the availability of image manipulation software, details in photographs can be altered fairly easily. This happened in a case where a private parking company, under contract to a local authority, changed timecodings on photographs of an alleged on-street parking infringement and times on a plate attached to a lamp-post. The PPC employee responsible was arrested, charged, convicted and jailed for Perverting the Course of Justice.