high view parking charge notice

[megs36]

Hi,
I’m wondering if anyone can help me. I’ve received a charge notice for parking in a Tesco car park, it says on the letter that they either do not have a record of this vehicle being validated on the parking machine with a customer voucher or it has exceeded the maximum customer stay time displayed on the signage. It says the duration of the stay was 57 minutes. This was on the 24/07/19 and the date of notice at top of the letter is 2/8/19 but I have only received this letter through the post this morning. Where do I stand with this?
The driver did go into the Tesco store but did not purchase anything and they did not notice that you have to put in your registration number in somewhere within the store.
The letter states the payment is £70 but they will accept a reduced sum of £20 if I send it before 16/8/19 which sounds dodgy anyways.

Any help would be appreciated on how to appeal this.
many thanks

[ostell]

Any post mark on the envelope, probably not. So you write to them as the keeper and tell them that you have just received their letter but it is outside the relevant period of 14 days to be able to transfer luability from the driver at the time to you, the keeper. You will found samples of thus around the forum.

[megs36]

Hi Ostell, can you post a link of where I could find these samples please? And do I have to send it recorded post?

thanks

[ostell]

You find them using the search facility in the forum, but as I am on my desktop here's a copy and paste.

Dear Sirs,

I have just received your Notice to Keeper xxxxx for vehicle VRM xxxx

You have failed to comply with the requirements of Schedule 4 of The Protection Of Freedoms Act 2012 namely, but not limited to, failing to deliver the notice within the relevant period of 14 days as prescribed by section 9 (4) of the Act. You cannot, therefore, transfer liability for the alleged charge from the driver at the time to me, the keeper.

There is no legal requirement to name the driver at the time and I will not be doing so.

Any further communication with me on this matter, apart from confirmation of no further action and my details being removed from your records, will be considered vexatious and harassment. This includes communication from any Debt Collection companies you care to instruct.

Yours etc

Send first class post with a free certificate of posting from a post office.