#3 G24 parking ticket - Argos Burnley 2020
on 17 Mar, 2025 16:56 in Private parking tickets
Hi,My wife received a parking ticket at the Argos store car park back in lockdown, May 2020. She stopped on the car park to take a phone call for 16 mins, the Argos store was closed due to lockdown, G24 sent her a PCN in May 2020.We appealed the charge as the store was closed but the IPA rejected it, no surprise there. We have then had Debt Recovery Plus and Zenith collections chasing us for payment all through 2020 and then in October 2020 the letters stopped and we thought that was the end of it. However December 2024 DCBL have started chasing us for payment.The signage in the car park says that you can park for 60 mins and is for the exclusive use of customers whilst shopping at this site. The Argos store was closed for lockdown so she was unable to shop! The car park has steps at the rear leading to a higher level car park where there is an Asda and numerous other stores, Asda was open during this period of lockdown.My defence was that the sign should have stated for the use of Argos only due to the access to other stores and that it should have been closed if there was a zero minute allowance?Any thoughts on next steps as we've now received a Letter of Claim? [ Guests cannot view attachments ]