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Morning Everyone,

I hope you are all keeping well.

Having sent my appeal email this is the response I received today. So in other words they will not allow me to appeal via email, and as we all know the online has a drop down list which frankly is worded for entrapment, so whatever option you choose, they can say well this doesn’t warrant an appeal.

Recently as well on a separate issue I was stung by my long standing Insurance company who sent an assessor out to look at our main house water leak and he spotted I have a therapy shed in the garden. One thing led to another and I got cancelled. It was quite stressful and I don’t particularly want more threats with this parking outfit, but any advice from you lovely folk is always very much appreciated, the deadline is tomorrow and I am tempted to pay the reduced rate, but they may now not accept that as I have put an appeal email, but then as you see below they aren’t accepting it via email.

Curious too at the footer it says Excel Parking Services?



Dear Sir/Madam

This is an automated acknowledgement to your CORRESPONDENCE regarding either a MyParkingCharge notification or Parking Charge Notice.

If you are contacting us relating to an appeal regarding a document titled 'MyParkingCharge' (MPC) issued to a vehicle or, a Parking Charge Notice/Charge Notice issued through the post where and the Serial No. commences with VCS or EPS, or commences CS and the date of the contravention is on or after 13-Dec-2016, it is important that you follow the appeal procedure set out on the notification you have received. Where the appeal procedure makes reference to www.myparkingcharge.co.uk it is important that you appeal via the website and follow the instructions online. We will not accept any correspondence regarding an appeal relating to the above via this email address.

Please note, you will need the Serial No. that commences with VCS, EPS or CS, as well as the Vehicle Registration Mark (VRM) to enable you to view the recorded details. Once entered, you will be able to view the information in connection with the recorded contravention.

If you decide to exercise your right to appeal, it must be submitted online at www.myparkingcharge.co.uk and following the instructions given.

If you are contacting us regarding a Notice where the Serial No. commences with VC or XL, or commences CS AND the date of the contravention is before 13-Dec-2016, you MUST ensure the following information is disclosed in order for your correspondence to be processsed.

1. As applicable, either the driver’s or the keeper’s name (including Title, Forename and Surname) and their full serviceable postal address.
2. If you are appealing on behalf of the driver or the keeper, you must include a written statement signed by the driver or keeper confirming that you are authorised to act on their behalf together with your name and full postal address.
3. Full details of the reason for your appeal/challenge and mitigating circumstances along with any supporting information/evidence.
If you have already provided all relevant information, then please accept our apologies and ignore this email, as we will be dealing with your appeal/challenge and notification of the outcome will be sent to you in the timeframe specified in the Notice you received.

Important Notes:

a) We will be responding to you within the timeframe specified on the Notice you have received, subject to the points listed below.
b) If you are appealing a PCN, which was affixed to your vehicle and you have not provided the information stated above, it may be necessary for us to contact the DVLA for details of the vehicle keeper in order that we can establish the identity of the driver.
c) In order to retain the option of the discounted payment amount (should your appeal be unsuccessful), your appeal must be received by the Central Payments Office no      later than 14 days from the Issue Date of this Notice.
d) If your appeal has not been received within the timescales set out on the Notice, it will be deemed out of time and as such declined UNLESS there are exceptional mitigating circumstances AND only at the company’s discretion.
e) Upon receipt of the required information we will place the NOTICE on hold while the circumstances surrounding the issue of the NOTICE are investigated.
f) Where applicable, we will advise you in writing of any further course of action you should take, as deemed necessary to support your appeal/challenge. Should we require longer to deal with the matter than the timeframes set on the Notice you have received, we will write to inform you of this within the timescale specified on the Notice along with a date/timeframe by which we expect to confirm our decision.
g) If you have already received a response from us informing you that your appeal had been unsuccessful, we will NOT respond to any further correspondence from you. Our letter would have informed you that our decision was final. As such, please disregard the information/requests referred to in the previous paragraphs of this email.

Thank you for your co-operation.
Central Processing Office


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Thanks b789. This is great support and advice.

Here’s the image of the drop down list. It is quite lengthy! https://imgur.com/a/2enSDam

I couldn’t see anywhere on the CN-NTK notice an email. Everything appears to go through a QR code or via www.myparkingcharge.co.uk

I'll ring VCS ltd on their general enquires Monday to see if they will give me an email address for appeals.

Plus I’ll send those two emails you kindly gave me, and report back as soon as I get a response.

I see your point.

How does this look?

Dear Sirs,

I am the registered keeper. VCS cannot hold a registered keeper liable for any alleged contravention on land that is under statutory control. As a matter of fact and law, VCS will be well aware that they cannot use the PoFA provisions because Bristol Airport is not 'relevant land'.

If Bristol Airports landowners wanted to hold owners or keepers liable under Airport Byelaws, that would be within the landowner's gift and another matter entirely.

However, not only is that not pleaded, it is also not legally possible because VCS is not the Airport owner and your ‘charge notice CN' is not and never attempts to be a penalty.

The registered keeper cannot be presumed or inferred to have been the driver, nor pursued under some interpretation of the law of agency. Your NTK can only hold the driver liable.

So you are urged to save us both time and cancel the CN with immediate effect.

Yours faithfully,

Thank you jfollows! It is so good to know you are all here and helping.

I’ll ensure I keep all paperwork, and set reminders for deadlines etc.

I’ll keep you posted throughout.

Today, I’ll send them my appeal description.

Hello everyone,

I have recently received a charge notice from VCS Ltd to myself the registered keeper. ( How do I attach the Notice Paper into this post? I have images but couldn’t see how to include them here).

We were on a family holiday and briefly stopped at 4:07am to check where to go with the meet & greet company. The notice shows us at 4:08am allegedly stopped as we are approaching the barrier for short stay.
The small white sign to the left of our vehicle. In the first image doesn’t appear to be about a no stopping zone ( although we were tired and it was dark so didn’t take note)

I would like to appeal/complain and have seen on their website a clever drop down list to put a title of what you were doing to stop. I ignored this and it let me move to the description box. I would also only put that I am a registered keeper as I wasn’t driving at the time. I haven’t actually put a description of my appeal in yet. I just tested the waters to see what I had to do.So I haven’t appealed yet or complained.

I really appreciate that this is an ongoing topic but don’t want to appeal/complain if there is no chance of it being rejected. I have also written to Bristol Airport Ltd expressing my complaint about this.

Any guidance is much appreciated and valued.