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The "reduced charge" or what is more commonly known as the "mugs discount", is designed to get you to pay into their scam without them having to do anything except laugh all the way to the bank. It is up to you if you think you are happy to pay them. They are going to reject any appeal, no matter what goes into it.

The main point of the appeal is to let them know they are not dealing with low-hanging fruit on the gullible tree. If you have the attitude of "I'll try an appeal but if that doesn't work, I'll just pay the 'mugs discount' and be done with it", then perhaps this is not the place for you.

If you feel the PCN has been issued unfairly, then you either fight it or else you give up at the first hurdle. It really is a choice you have to make.

Absolute worst case scenario, it goes all the way to a hearing in the small claims track at your local county court and you do not manage to persuade a judge that you don't owe the PPC a debt. It would probably cost you around £220 and there is no chance of a CCJ on your recored as long as it is paid within 28 days of the judgment. The odds of it getting to that scenario... about 1%.

On the other hand, there's a 99% chance that it will progress all the way to a claim but they are more likely to eventually discontinue when they realise that you are prepared to "go all the way" and they'll go off in search of lower-hanging fruit to try and con.

You mention penalty charge and fine (it can’t be both), but as the notice itself tells you, it is neither, it’s a parking charge, a bill, an invoice.

You presumably have a right under your tenancy agreement to park?
Does that say you have to display a permit? And that if you don’t you have to pay a parasitic private company for not doing so?

If not then clearly they can ‘do one’.