#3 UKPC - parked in an area for registered users only - Horsted Retail Park Chatham
on 02 Dec, 2025 13:55 in Private parking tickets
HelloI would very much appreciate some guidance re this parking charge notice:Parking charge front: https://ibb.co/s9ThgssyParking charge back: https://ibb.co/214bb81jCar park signage: https://ibb.co/CKhRsLchPictures of retail park: https://completelyretail.co.uk/scheme/horsted-retail-park-chatham-2323The notice claims that the vehicle was parked in "Service Yard" (the service yard is behind Home Bargains in the aerial photo). The driver has told me this is very much NOT the case - the vehicle was parked in the retail park's regular car park in a normal parking space. The driver visited two stores - Aldi and Home Bargains.1. does this notice confirm with PoFA 2012?2. apart from the false claim as mentioned, the photos do not give any indication of where the vehicle was parked. Obviously UKPC will claim that they are from a camera in the service yard when in reality they are from some other camera, but I have no way of proving this one way or the other. Is there any weight in this argument?3. should I appeal to UKPC with a genuine appeal, or should I only appeal in order to obtain a POPLA code? Or not go down that route at all and wait for the inevitable debt letters and court threats (assuming I do not get any responses to my emails below)?So far I have sent emails to Aldi, Home Bargains and the landowners, Royal London Asset Management (using two email addresses of staff members that had previously helped others found on another forum, plus the CEO). Aldi said they could not help because they don't own the land, Home Bargains say they are very busy and will get back to me, nothing from RLAM thus far. I am not holding my breath.Many thanks