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Hi,
Last night I had a Parking Charge Notice placed on my windscreen from MET Parking Services: £100 penalty, reduced to £60 if paid within 14 days.
My car was parked right outside the front door of my block of flats in a private development - for context, the building has an underground car park which residents are expected to use at all times, and there is in theory supposed to be no parking at all on the street (presumably to make it a more pleasant environment). In practice, residents routinely leave their cars on the street if briefly stopping off for loading - it is a very quiet street with ample space and no road markings and this does not obstruct anyone - and I have never once seen a notice issued for this in 9 months.
My car was observed from 21:37 to 21:47, and was parked from roughly 21:35 to 21:55. There are very clear signs on lampposts stating that parking is not allowed and that a £100 penalty can be issued, but given that a) I was causing no obstruction nor preventing anyone else parking on the street (there was plenty of room); b) at that time of the evening there is a very good chance nobody even passed along the street while my car was parked anyway, so if the restriction is on ambience grounds my car likely affected nobody, I feel like an appeal on the grounds that £100 is not a genuine pre-estimate of loss is my best bet - should I give notice that I intend to make this appeal and ask for a POPLA code immediately, or wait for the Notice to Keeper?
Don't think there's much point trying to claim I don't know who the driver was, as my address as the registered keeper is exactly where the car was parked! But if anyone would still recommend claiming this, I'll edit my post accordingly.
EDIT: Also interesting that MET have this page on their website trying to deter you from appealing - http://www.metparking.com/our_servic...egalities.html which seems like bullying tactics if ever I saw them...
Thanks!
Last night I had a Parking Charge Notice placed on my windscreen from MET Parking Services: £100 penalty, reduced to £60 if paid within 14 days.
My car was parked right outside the front door of my block of flats in a private development - for context, the building has an underground car park which residents are expected to use at all times, and there is in theory supposed to be no parking at all on the street (presumably to make it a more pleasant environment). In practice, residents routinely leave their cars on the street if briefly stopping off for loading - it is a very quiet street with ample space and no road markings and this does not obstruct anyone - and I have never once seen a notice issued for this in 9 months.
My car was observed from 21:37 to 21:47, and was parked from roughly 21:35 to 21:55. There are very clear signs on lampposts stating that parking is not allowed and that a £100 penalty can be issued, but given that a) I was causing no obstruction nor preventing anyone else parking on the street (there was plenty of room); b) at that time of the evening there is a very good chance nobody even passed along the street while my car was parked anyway, so if the restriction is on ambience grounds my car likely affected nobody, I feel like an appeal on the grounds that £100 is not a genuine pre-estimate of loss is my best bet - should I give notice that I intend to make this appeal and ask for a POPLA code immediately, or wait for the Notice to Keeper?
Don't think there's much point trying to claim I don't know who the driver was, as my address as the registered keeper is exactly where the car was parked! But if anyone would still recommend claiming this, I'll edit my post accordingly.
EDIT: Also interesting that MET have this page on their website trying to deter you from appealing - http://www.metparking.com/our_servic...egalities.html which seems like bullying tactics if ever I saw them...
Thanks!
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