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Good evening Forum members,

This redacted NtK was received today with a date of issue indicated as 13 March 2024.

The alleged contravention was for not purchasing a valid payment-permit at Alexandra Palace.

The passenger in the car is disabled and holder of a blue badge and was attending a free event organised by the BBC. Its website was indicating before the event that there was free parking for disabled blue badge holders on first come first served basis and that the traffic marshals will direct the cars. Unfortunately, that link is not showing up any longer, because the event is in the past.

Upon the entrance into the car park the driver stopped by the traffic marshal querying if there was free parking available for blue badge holders and they were directed by the traffic marshal to park on the left of East Court entrance. The car park was almost full

The blue badge holder noticed no signage to indicate that any parking restrictions applied or that the car was entering an ANPR monitored car park.

Upon receipt of the NtK, the disabled Blue Badge holder looked up the parking at Alexandra Palace and it appears that Blue Badge holders are entitled to free parking, but validation on site is required or emailing parking@alexandrapalace.com. Neither the BB holder, nor the driver were aware of such details, hence they just parked displaying the BB and timer disc on the dashboard only to find out that a NtK has been issued.

The BB holder emailed to parking@alexandrapalace.com earlier this evening indicating the circumstances, more or less as above.

I'm attaching links to the PCN, both pages, and I would appreciate your views. There are no pictures of signages at the site at this moment, but hopefully will be available later this week.

https://ibb.co/yytQWFd
https://ibb.co/C8Vy8RN

Thank you for taking your time to read this.

P.S. Forgot to mention that the BB holder provided evidence of the ticket at the event and copies of the BB to parking@alexandrapalace.com.

Kind regards,

Almep13

The PCN looks to be compliant with the conditions which, as a matter of law, would allow the creditor to pursue the keeper for the charge in the event that it remains unpaid and the PCN is not cancelled.

If there is consensus on this point then other than for the addressees' details there would seem to be no reason to redact any other info.

OP, are you the RK or are you acting on somebody else's behalf?

There are no pictures of signages at the site at this moment, but hopefully will be available later this week.

How so and from where? The RK would be most unlikely to get these from the creditor.

Would anyone be able to return to the site to take photos of signs etc. if required? Indeed, were the signs on the day of a temporary or permanent nature?

@b789 and @H C Andersen,

Thank you very much for your prompt and detailed responses, I appreciate. Apologies for the late response.

The BB holder received an email earlier today by the landowner's administration team, parking@alexandrapalace.com, apologising for the experience at their car park, confirming exemption of parking in the future at their car park as well as request to ECP to cancel the PCN. Hopefully, the cancellation will take place soon and I'll keep you posted.

Thank you once again for your time and have a nice evening.

Kind Regards,

Almep13

Thank you DWMB2 for the suggestion, I appreciate it.

Have a good evening.

Almep13