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Live cases legal advice => Private parking tickets => Topic started by: LongTimeLurker on April 24, 2026, 10:03:00 am
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Thank you, appreciate the input.
Kind Regards
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NTOs are for council tickets. A Notice to Keeper would ordinarily be issued in private cases.
If she has told them she was driving and provided her name and address, APCOA won't be contacting you, as they don't need to. They will continue to contact her.
If she had waited, and you had appealed, the matter would have been cancelled. However, in our experience, we have never seen APCOA take a single case to court. She can therefore ignore the incoming barrage of letters from debt collectors (who are powerless). In the very unlikely event she receives a Letter of Claim from solicitors, come back here, otherwise, continue to ignore. They usually get bored after a few months to a year or so.
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Good morning,
My wife recently used my car to park in the staff area of Long Stay at Heathrow. She didn't have her work permit displayed in the windscreen due to a last minute vehicle swap, and received a ticket.
I did advise her I'd deal with it, but in her infinite wisdom she contacted them to advise she was driving, she was parked correctly and the reason for the permit not being displayed, so I never received a NTO.
They have rejected her appeal and insisted the PCN stands - is she able to ignore this and I can wait for the NTO and tell them to do one under the usual airport byelaws, or has she screwed the process by appealing as driver?
Many thanks