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Live cases legal advice => Private parking tickets => Topic started by: NBSCMN on August 15, 2026, 11:42:55 am

Title: Re: appeal NCP PCN
Post by: jfollows on August 23, 2026, 01:45:15 pm

Quote from: NBSCMN on August 22, 2026, 04:04:06 pm

thanks appeal won

Good, thank you for letting us know.
It shows that even though NCP is bankrupt or whatever, it’s still accepting valid appeals in a way that most other companies (apart from APCOA) don’t.

Title: Re: appeal NCP PCN
Post by: NBSCMN on August 22, 2026, 04:04:06 pm

thanks appeal won

Title: Re: appeal NCP PCN
Post by: jfollows on August 15, 2026, 12:02:44 pm

I would simplify the appeal to the presumed delivery date only, as you note this is 10 August which is more than 14 days after the parking event, the driver will not be identified and the registered keeper can not be held liable because the requirements of PoFA 2012 have not been met.

Use the other points and they will ignore the PoFA one.

NCP have a record of folding on the basis of appeals like this.

More is not better unless/until this turns into an actual county court claim, which it’s reasonably likely it won’t.

Title: appeal NCP PCN
Post by: NBSCMN on August 15, 2026, 11:42:55 am

Hi all,
I’ve received another NCP Parking Charge Notice for the Epsom High Street car park.


https://ibb.co/hxV6WRKM

https://ibb.co/RkxGBr5m


The details are:

• Date of incident: 25/07/2026
• Date of sending: 06/08/2026
• Entry: 09:18:31
• Exit: 09:57:50
• Reason: Parked without payment of the parking charge

Can I appeal on the following points?

1. Notice to Keeper delivered outside the 14-day POFA period
The incident was on 25/07/2026, so I believe the 14-day period ended on 08/08/2026.
The notice says it was sent on 06/08/2026. As a postal notice is presumed to be delivered on the second working day after posting, would the presumed delivery date be Monday 10/08/2026?
If so, would this mean NCP cannot rely on POFA Schedule 4 to transfer liability to the registered keeper?

2. Failure to adequately specify the relevant land
The notice only gives the location as “Epsom High Street”.
Is this sufficient for the requirement under POFA to specify the relevant land, or could this be challenged as being too vague?

3. Period of parking

The notice describes the ANPR entry and exit times as the “period of parking”.
My understanding is that ANPR only records when a vehicle enters and leaves the site and does not establish the actual period during which the vehicle was parked. Is this a valid POFA point as well?



Would these be the correct points to use for the initial appeal, or should I keep it simpler and rely mainly on the 14-day POFA issue?
Thanks.