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I, recently, received a Notice To Keeper for a vehicle parked on yellow lines/hatched area. (Images
Car Parking 1, 2 and 3)
The alleged breach of contract took place at the Broadwalk Centre, Edgware,
Station Road, HA8 7BD on 20/03/2026 at 10:57:46.
The Notice To Keeper was issued on the 25/03/2026 (see images
Notice To Keeper Front and Back).
A Notice To Keeper Reminder, demanding full payment, was issued on the 08/04/2026 (see images
Notice To Keeper Reminder Front and Back).
I am the registered keeper of the vehicle.
I intend to appeal this parking charge on the following grounds:
1. The Notice to Keeper was not served within 14 days of the alleged breach of contract to allow liability transfer to the driver.
The alleged breach occurred on the 20/03/2026, the Notice To Keeper was issued on the 25/03/2026, but I only received it,
in the post, on the 09/04/2026 (see image
Notice To Keeper Front).
2. The company - UKPC - alleging the breach of contract failed to comply with the British Parking Association's Code of Practise.
The Private Parking Sector Single Code of Practise states that for a premises which holds more than 500 parking spaces a minimum
consideration period of 10 minutes be must given before a parking charge can be issued (see Annex B pages 34-36 and images
Parking Code Annex B 34, 35 and 36). The visit to the Broadwalk Centre began at 10:49 and the alleged breech of contract occurred at 10:57 - 2 minutes
before the consideration period ended. Compare the time on the Entry Ticket with the time of the alleged breach of contract on the Notice To Keeper -
see images
Entry Ticket and
Notice To Keeper Front.
The link to the full code of practise is provided below.
https://www.britishparking.co.uk/write/Documents/AOS/NEW%20Redesigned%20Documents/sectorsingleCodeofPractice.pdf3. There was no opportunity to pay the reduced parking charge of £60 since the 14 day window to do so had already passed
when the Notice to Keeper was received, in the post, on the 09/04/2026.
4. The terms and conditions displayed on the parking signage are ambiguous. Next to the statement 'No parking on yellow lines
or in an area with Hatched markings' a pictorial representation of yellow lines is displayed, but no representation of hatch markings
is shown. It is, therefore, not clear what exactly constitutes a breach of contract with regard to hatch markings (see images
Sign and
Terms and Conditions).
Please can you advise me on this and let me know if you need any further information.
Kind regards
John
