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Hi,

I, as the registered keeper received this PCN for staying in a car park for 41 minutes more than the paid time. The driver paid for two hours whereas the recorded stay yime in the car park was 2h 41m.

The parking company have not taken into account the time spent for looking for parking, as well as the time spent after coming back to the car and getting all the kids in - sorting everything out etc which was significant.. A long time was spent looking for parking, and getting ready to exit the car park too.

A quick check on google shows that this car park has 2.1 stars!!! with the majority of reviewers incensed with unfair parking tickets. (It's unclear if any victims brought their case to this hallowed forum..)

Here's the link to the car park;
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Long+Stay+Car+Park/@53.140045,-4.2811801,1045m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m12!1m2!2m1!1sslate+quay+car+park!3m8!1s0x4865a5004e0e1189:0x1d4f5a603dd25df5!8m2!3d53.1389146!4d-4.2757054!9m1!1b1!15sChNzbGF0ZSBxdWF5IGNhciBwYXJrWhUiE3NsYXRlIHF1YXkgY2FyIHBhcmuSAQtwYXJraW5nX2xvdJoBRENpOURRVWxSUVVOdlpFTm9kSGxqUmpsdlQyMHdNMlJVYkhsaU1EbHhVVmRTVFdWR1dsVlZhelF5WVVob1NWZHJSUkFC4AEA-gEECAAQLg!16s%2Fg%2F11mstx_x0y?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDgxMi4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

This is the street view link;
https://www.google.com/maps/@53.1390052,-4.2757536,3a,75y,232.57h,79.86t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sdEQu27eAzrKjAw2lYLjHMA!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D10.14%26panoid%3DdEQu27eAzrKjAw2lYLjHMA%26yaw%3D232.57!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDgxMi4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

I enclose the images of the PCN;
https://postimg.cc/gallery/j2vvpy5

If someone can help me appeal this I would be most grateful.

Thank you

That would give you 2h10m on a paid period of 2h.
2h41m seems excessive to me.
The extra time is to allow the sorts of things you refer to.
If you can substantiate the time “looking for parking” this may help, because there are cases and judgments which explicitly state that this isn’t actual parking time. But you need to substantiate spending 30 minutes driving around looking for parking plus the 10 minute “grace period”. On the face of it it’s not easy to believe. But I’m not the person you need to convince. I can’t imaging personally spending 30 minutes driving around a car park looking for a space to become available, but I’m not you.

Thank you - I am aware that the extra time is a little difficult to explain...

I was hoping for a more technical exemption, perhaps an incorrect or missing detail in the pcn which would invalidate it.

Thanks for the help!!