Received a county court claim form from Parking Eye

[Miz9901]

Hi I received a county court claim form from Parking Eye for a parking ticket which I received few months ago. I was staying at a hotel in Birmingham and I thought the car park behind the hotel was the hotel car park. It was when I asked the receptionist at the hotel whether that car park belonged to the hotel and she said no. I quickly moved the car but ended up getting a ticket through the post. I want to defend it on the basis that it wasn’t clear from the sign whether the car park was the hotel car park or not and it was confusing what property the car park belonged to, and on the basis that I was only there for 20 mins and a £185 fine is unfair and disproportionate. Can someone help me with this case and tell me if I have any chance of winning this. Thank you

[MIKE770]

ostell

[ostell]

Unfortunately PE normally get things correct. Did you ignore the original PCN? Can you post up a copy of it, both sides.

[Miz9901]

Should I go ahead with my defence or is it likely I will lose. Can anyone advice

[ostell]

Need information before can off advice

[pt2537]

ive unapproved the uploaded links as they had personal details on them such as name and address

[Miz9901]

I have edited the pictures to remove person details.

Front: https://imgurupload.org/files/EB933D...9C451BD37.jpeg

Back: https://imgurupload.org/files/3A8B82...AE60C3504.jpeg

[Miz9901]

I was staying at a hotel in Birmingham and believed that the car park on sight belonged to the hotel. It wasn’t until I asked the receptionist at the hotel when I informed that it didn’t belong to them and I should move it. All together I was there for about 20 minutes. There was signs in the car park but unfortunately I didn’t take any pictures of it. I revived a few letters from parking eye but I ignored them as I didn’t think they would chase it up. I want to know whether I have a defence based on the fact that I didn’t know the car park didn’t belong to the hotel and there wasn’t any signs saying what property the car park belonged to. Or the fact that £185 is extortionate and is a unfair amount to pay for only 20 mins. Please let me know if you need any more information.

[ostell]

So your defence will include that when you were told you were in the wrong car park you declined PEs offer to park and moved elsewhere.

The signs were also unclear about the location being part of the hotel

[Miz9901]

Thank you I will write and draft and post it here for you to check.