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Live cases legal advice => Private parking tickets => Topic started by: MSA101 on November 02, 2025, 12:56:18 pm
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The PCN needs to be received within 14 days if the liability is to be transferred from the unknown driver to you, the registered keeper.
So make sure you refer to the driver in the third person at all times (as you have done), according to https://www.ftla.uk/private-parking-tickets/read-this-first-private-parking-charges-forum-guide/
Whilst CEL may well reject your valid appeal, ultimately if you follow advice here you will not pay them anything.
A standard appeal is
I am the keeper of the vehicle and I dispute your 'parking charge'. I deny any liability or contractual agreement and I will be making a complaint about your predatory conduct to your client landowner.
As your Notice to Keeper (NtK) does not fully comply with ALL the requirements of PoFA 2012, you are unable to hold the keeper of the vehicle liable for the charge. Partial or even substantial compliance is not sufficient. There will be no admission as to who was driving and no inference or assumptions can be drawn. CEL has relied on contract law allegations of breach against the driver only.
The registered keeper cannot be presumed or inferred to have been the driver, nor pursued under some twisted interpretation of the law of agency. Your NtK can only hold the driver liable. CEL have no hope at POPLA, so you are urged to save us both a complete waste of time and cancel the PCN.
A more detailed appeal can be used at POPLA if CEL rejects this appeal.
All this applies on the presumption that you are the registered keeper and your V5C is accurate.
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Good afternoon
i was hoping for some help in dealing with a PCN i received from Civil enforcement, at the rear car park of the Food World Supermarket on Washwood Heath Road in Birmingham. The site is monitored by ANPR and a ticket was posted for an alleged contravention on 26th September. The PCN arrived by post to my home on 29th October
On the day of the alleged incident, the driver used the car park, and was in the store for around 30 minutes and before leaving, entered the reg of the car on one of the multiple tablets they have on the pay counters in the store. At this point a permit is issued for use of the car park. However, despite doing this a PCN was issued. This car park has been used multiple times and there have not been any issues before.
The PCN was received via post on 29th October, around 32-33 days after the date of the alleged contravention. From what i have read, a postal PCN from an ANPR site needs to be received within 14 days. There is also the issue of a reg plate definitely being entered.
I have attempted to resolve this with the store workers but they seem to be incapable/unwilling to help at all. I ahve been told to got through the appeals process and get this cancelled. i have attached images of the PCN and would be grateful for any help in how to word this
Thank you
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