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Bristol Airport VCS Charge Notice 25 April 2026
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I am the registered keeper of this car. The car paused at the entrance to the airport on Downside Road in order to do a u-turn.

The reduced charge amount has to be paid by 14 May. The notice posted to me on 1 May arrived on 8 May.

This entrance to the airport has been modified since the last Google street view, which is dated September 2024.

I propose to reply to the notice as follows:

'The vehicle paused at this entrance to the airport while safely executing a u-turn. It was not stopped in the common usage of this term. The driver's details will not be shared.' 

Any advice in the next three days would be gratefully received. Images of the car VK22KKJ at https://imgpile.com/p/8xcRHLf
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https://imgpile.com/p/tB2HTj1
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Re: Bristol Airport VCS Charge Notice 25 April 2026
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I'll move this to Private Parking. It sounds as if this thread may be of interest
https://www.ftla.uk/private-parking-tickets/vcs-bristol-airport/15/
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The notice? I don’t think you posted it, anyway.
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I have added links to a picture of the 'offence' and of the notice to the original post.
Philip
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You will have fight this PCN as you state you did not stop but did a U turn which does not necessarily mean you have stopped the car car. Have you signage which may help. This needs to be challenged by the RK not naming the driver and being in it for the long haul it seems ridiculous that a driver doing a U turn needs to justify the car being stopped to compete a manoeuvre but private parking companies are in it for financial gain.
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At face value, 20 seconds seems quite a while for a vehicle to seemingly remain stationary whilst performing a U-turn. That said, this doesn't create a contractual liability to VCS.

There are a couple of grounds on which you can raise a challenge:
  • The vehicle needed to stop in order to perform a U-turn (although as above, you may wish to consider why the driver remained stopped for as long as they did)
  • The signage (and the 'term' allegedly breached') are prohibitive. Getting more recent images of the signage would help here. A sign which prohibits stopping would not appear to offer any valuable consideration - it doesn't communicate an offer to park, just a ban on stopping, and as such no contract can have been formed.
  • Even if a contract was formed, the land is not relevant land for the purposes of Schedule 4 of the Protection of Freedoms Act (PoFA), as it is subject to statutory control in the form of airport byelaws, therefore they cannot rely on PoFA to hold you liable as the registered keeper of the vehicle.
  • Subject to getting images of the signage as above, there may be an argument that the signage was not sufficiently prominent.
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