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Parking Charge Notice. Advice please....

John R

Hello everyone,

I received a Parking Charge Notice (PCN) the other day. £100!!!!! Courtesy of Parking Eye.

I had an appointment at my local health centre for hearing aid fitting and I parked in their car park. I genuinely didn’t see any notices and had no idea I had to register my car once inside the building.

I have been back to have a look and can see there are notices there but they are 10 foot off the ground. I tend to look straight ahead when driving!!!! It does state that parking is only for staff, patients and visitors. In very small print there is an instruction to register your vehicle once inside the building. I did not notice these notices at the time. I was focused on finding a space. I only parked there for the time my appointment took.

I don’t want to use my autism as an excuse but....

Does anyone have any similar experiences of this or any advice as to whether it is worth appealing?

I am feeling a bit p......d off.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Yours in hope,

John

  • in reply to MartinRiggs

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  • in reply to MartinRiggs

    I agree with this. Parking Eye are awful and won't approve your appeal. If you do insist on paying it, pay by cheque to annoy them :-)

    I read a story once about someone who paid with 1p coins and they had to accept it. Probably cost a lot in postage though!

  • in reply to MartinRiggs

    It is the lack of any response from you whatsoever that stops them from being able to "establish a controversy" and hence qualify to bring a case against you... 

    PLUS if you still aren't responding by the third letter then you are either dead or "trouble" and they have enough suckers just throwing money at them, so why pursue you? 

    Well done Martin, VERY few people in my experience ever figure out or manage to learn how that game works. 

  • Unless its from the council ignore it completely. Don't appeal as they will reject your appeal anyway. Let them try and send you to small claims. They won't do that. But if you do worst case scenario is you will just owe them the £100 anyway. But you will likely win the small claims case.

    I got one last year after the job centre forced me to attend a jobs workshp with the council. It lasted four hours and was in a car part that is free for three hours. I asked advice online and everyone said to ignore it. 

  • Hi - I got one of these last year (first time ever) and like you I’d missed the signs. I bought a ticket for a weeks parking on holiday  from the machine but I didn’t display the ticket because I thought it was all electronically monitored and you didn’t have to display the ticket in your car - lots of the other cars didn’t have a ticket on their dashboards so I thought you didn’t need to. But you did! And when we went back to car we saw we had a ticket - I was mortified! 
    we had exited the car park on foot though a gateway at the side where there were no signs saying you should display the ticket on the dash. 
    Anyway I appealed with photos and an explanation and they let me off the parking ticket. I was very relieved as beyond the money I also hate to get into trouble and to think I’ve done something wrong.

    So I would consider appealing if you think you have a strong case. Check the rules - in my case there was nothing to lose from going to appeal - but it depends on what company/council you are dealing with. 
    I hope it goes well for you - I know how stressful these things can be!

  • It is worth contacting them and tell them what you have put on here, particularly in respect of registering your car. Our local leisure centre improved their signage both outside and on entering after lots of people got fines. It has been known for some places to take this on board and improve the signage. I also know on other occasions the charge remained.

  • John R said:

    Any advice would be appreciated.

    There is quite a decent article on the Readers Digest site of all places on such a situation with approaches that may be of interest:

    https://www.rd.com/list/tips-for-fighting-a-parking-ticket/

    Good luck.