Help/advice needed, please!
I have today received a PCN from SMART Parking with regard to the Lowther Street Car Park in Carlisle.
We stopped off to eat in Carlisle whilst en route to Scotland, and found said car park in the city centre. We noted on entry that parking charges applied 24hrs, and accordingly my wife went to the closest Pay & Display machine, and paid £1.00 for one hour's parking. After a quick burger and fries, we returned to the car and left the car park some 35 minutes after arrival.
After receipt of the PCN, a quick online search found the following:
http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/Dr...e166af0b179-ds
I still had our purchased ticket in the car - issued by Horizon, not SMART, valid for the Iceland section of the car park.
However, unlike the recipient in the newspaper report, we had nothing stuck on our windscreen. The PCN has ANPR images of my car entering and leaving the car park, and has presumably been issued because SMART's Pay & Display machines did not register a ticket purchase for that time period - but there is nothing to suggest they can prove where we actually parked.
Can and should I appeal based entirely on those grounds, ie., that we purchased a valid ticket from the closest machine, and hope they then drop it as they can't prove which section we parked in?
If so, advice on wording would be much appreciated....
Thanks in advance....
I have today received a PCN from SMART Parking with regard to the Lowther Street Car Park in Carlisle.
We stopped off to eat in Carlisle whilst en route to Scotland, and found said car park in the city centre. We noted on entry that parking charges applied 24hrs, and accordingly my wife went to the closest Pay & Display machine, and paid £1.00 for one hour's parking. After a quick burger and fries, we returned to the car and left the car park some 35 minutes after arrival.
After receipt of the PCN, a quick online search found the following:
http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/Dr...e166af0b179-ds
I still had our purchased ticket in the car - issued by Horizon, not SMART, valid for the Iceland section of the car park.
However, unlike the recipient in the newspaper report, we had nothing stuck on our windscreen. The PCN has ANPR images of my car entering and leaving the car park, and has presumably been issued because SMART's Pay & Display machines did not register a ticket purchase for that time period - but there is nothing to suggest they can prove where we actually parked.
Can and should I appeal based entirely on those grounds, ie., that we purchased a valid ticket from the closest machine, and hope they then drop it as they can't prove which section we parked in?
If so, advice on wording would be much appreciated....
Thanks in advance....
Comment