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I have been issued for parking inappropriately outside my flat. I have a permit to park in the car park but there is no signs around area or on entry. The CEO has used a sign that was taken down and placed in a random place by neighbours not where they have mapped it out. I appealed on the basis that that sign used is not there and was never there (which is true) but they have rejected this and asking me to pay £100 or go to the IAS. What should I do?

Website: CPM
PCN:50977400
VRN: EJ57ZFP

The lease does not give us a specific parking space. But there is no signs around the parking area to tell us T&Cs on where we can/can’t park. The sign used in the picture was not there when I parked and is not there now. I have a picture of the entrance before the PCN. Was issued and one after with no signs on entrance. I’m assuming the operator went to the other side of the residential area that does have signs. I thought that invalidated the PCN as it’s being enforced with no signage?

It does say anything about how to park. Just that we need to obtain a permit and follow the parking terms and conditions displayed. The permits are digital.

Thank you for the patience. I have just revised my tenancy agreement and there is nothing about parking.

I have also contacted Hyde group who are in charge of the land they don’t have any record of parking agreements/lease with residents.

We received a letter at the start of the year saying that we had to get a permit via an app called ‘Sippi’ to park as it will be enforced by CPM. There was no signs at all near where I parked.

This is the original PCN received via post:

Thank you for the patience. I have just revised my tenancy agreement and there is nothing about parking.

I have also contacted Hyde group who are in charge of the land they don’t have any record of parking agreements/lease with residents.

Do you own the property or is it rented?

If rented, was it advertised with parking included?

The NtK is non compliant in a number of ways - this can be used with POPLA but won't be accepted by the operator.

Personally, I would appeal to the operator (in order to obtain a POPLA Code) purely as vehicle keeper.

Your appeal point is that you feel that by renting the property the landlord has given the tenant direct permission to park one vehicle on the land and, as such, in that circumstance, there is no further requirement for the vehicle driver to enter into a separate contract with a private parking contractor in order to park.

This is known as primacy of contract.

The operator will almost certainly reject the appeal.

We can then word a POPLA appeal using the non compliant PoFA argument which will be far more difficult for them to rebut.


Quick question, have you tried pressuring the landowner to get this cancelled?

I have requested CPM to tell me which sign was used so I can see how far away the sign was to my car. Should I go via the IAS? And what should I say? Does the discrepancy of where the letter says my vehicle was parked to where it actually was?