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Live cases legal advice => Private parking tickets => Topic started by: ellispeter91@gmail.com on June 16, 2026, 07:23:26 pm

Title: Re: Premier Inn PCN
Post by: jfollows on June 16, 2026, 09:38:28 pm: Please post the original PCN. I infer you never engaged with Horizon, that you did nothing until now. Is that correct?

You have to file a defence or Acknowledgment of Service by 1 July
If you file an AoS you have until 15 July to file a defence

What do you mean by “counter claim”?

Oh, and it’s not a fine, it’s an invoice for payment under the contract the driver entered into by parking, having read the terms and conditions on the signs in the car park.

If you do not have the original PCN, then you can obtain it through a Subject Access Request to Horizon, but make sure you do so as the registered keeper and do not identify the driver if you do so. https://www.ftla.uk/private-parking-tickets/read-this-first-private-parking-charges-forum-guide/ may help.
Title: Re: Premier Inn PCN
Post by: ellispeter91@gmail.com on June 16, 2026, 08:40:05 pm: (https://cdn.imgpile.com/f/ID7xKlS_xl.jpeg)(https://cdn.imgpile.com/f/dDZn19G_xl.jpeg)(https://cdn.imgpile.com/f/pHYd8h0_xl.jpeg)
Title: Re: Premier Inn PCN
Post by: ellispeter91@gmail.com on June 16, 2026, 08:23:36 pm: Horizon Parking Limited
Title: Re: Premier Inn PCN
Post by: John U.K. on June 16, 2026, 08:15:00 pm: Read the civil parking link above for guidance on posting images.

Who issued the PCN?
Title: Re: Premier Inn PCN
Post by: ellispeter91@gmail.com on June 16, 2026, 08:01:21 pm: Thanks for the response.

I'm not too sure how to upload docs - if you can point me in the right direction ?
Title: Re: Premier Inn PCN
Post by: John U.K. on June 16, 2026, 07:37:07 pm: Sounds like a Parking Charge Notice rather than a Penalty Charge Notice?

If from a Council, read this
https://www.ftla.uk/civil-penalty-charge-notices-(councils-tfl-and-so-on)/read-this-first-before-posting-your-case!-this-section-is-for-council-tfl-dartme/

If a Parking Charge Notice, then this.
https://www.ftla.uk/private-parking-tickets/read-this-first-private-parking-charges-forum-guide/msg565/#msg565

Either way,, post up the documents, all sides (only redact yr name & address, leave all else in).

If it's a Parking Charge Notice, this thread will be moved to the Private Parking Forum.
Title: Premier Inn PCN
Post by: ellispeter91@gmail.com on June 16, 2026, 07:23:26 pm: Small bit of advice needed.

Stayed in a Premier Inn overnight, with parking. Didn't realise a fee of £10 was to be paid for overnight parking.

First I heard was a PCN fine through the door.

I never paid because I was actually parked in a bay that was for the solicitors next door.

I've now been summoned with a CCJ, Is there anyway my counter claim will hold ?

Or is it a case of just pay the fine ?

Thanks in advance !