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Live cases legal advice => Private parking tickets => Topic started by: djsky on June 18, 2026, 12:07:18 pm
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The PCN looks pretty compliant to me.
The wording does differ significantly from the legislation but all key information is set out alongside the correct warnings and statements etc.
Do you still have your communications with the landowner?
You best defence point could be that you had direct permission from the landowner for the vehicle to be there - ie if the landowner had booked your services etc.
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As an aside I'd get back onto the customer.
You might want to point out it's not particularly conducive to a good business relationship for one of their suppliers to be sued by their car park operator.
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edited, sorry pasted wrong.
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Can you also post the back please
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I was back and forth with the landowner about cancelling the charge, and assumed they'd done it as i'd not heard for a while, but now its at LBA stage.
Here's the original PCN
https://ibb.co/8DzxW52M (https://ibb.co/8DzxW52M)
https://ibb.co/3mTjK54D (https://ibb.co/3mTjK54D)
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If appropriate, see https://www.ftla.uk/private-parking-tickets/apcoa-pcn-at-hospital/msg121139/#msg121139
Dear Sirs,
We, [COMPANY NAME] have received your Parking Charge Notice (Ref: ________) for vehicle registration mark ____ ___, in which you allege that the driver has incurred a parking charge. We note from your correspondence that you are not seeking to hold us liable as the registered keeper, under Schedule 4 of the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 ("The Act"). You have chosen not to issue a Notice to Keeper in accordance with The Act, and it is now too late for you to do so.
As a body corporate, we are not and cannot be the driver. There is no obligation for us to name the driver and we will not be doing so. We are therefore unable to help you further with this matter, and look forward to your confirmation that the charge has been cancelled. If you choose to decline this appeal, you must issue a POPLA code.
Yours,
But you say you now have a Letter before Action, so it’s too late to appeal, for which you may have been able to use the above. You will presumably have to file a county court defence now.
Do not assume non-compliance with PoFA 2012 unless you are sure, or until you have posted the PCN and had feedback on it.
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Post up the original PCN.
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Hi, I came here to search for a draft letter/response I used before when I recieved a parking charge from one of our company vehicles... it worked before and wondered if I could use it again, but can't find it. It was entitled COMPANY ABC or something similar.
I, as the company secretary/Director, received a PCN for one of our company vehicles from ce-service for parking at a customer location on their private land (car park managed by CE-Service) without registering the number plate at the site... the site aren't being very helpful and haven't cancelled the charge which i'm sure they are able to do, but it's now gone to a LBA from ce-service.
Any ideas or suggestions?
I've not responded or appealed to any of the PCN letters yet.