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Update:

I’ve spoken to the landowners and they’ve agreed to raise a complaint with Euro Parking Services.

They say they have had calls/complaints everyday from people!

However, the lady on the phone seemed to think there isn’t much she can do.

Whoever you spoke to, whether they are sure or not that they can get the PPC to cancel the PCN, will depend on who contracted the PPC in the first place. If it was the gym, then it may be worth getting something in writing from them about they getting the PCN cancelled.

If I were a betting man, my money would be on the busineess (Jardines) having contracted them, as a result of their staff struggling to park due to gym customers parking in their staff/customer bays. Worth the OP figuring out whether or not this is the case, though.

Which doesn't really answer..

To continue DWMB2's line...


I go to my gym 5 mornings a week and usually park in an area right next to my gym.

Why not outside the gym, after all GSV suggests it provides parking sufficient for early-morning numbers of users? Why 'an area right next to' on land which, whatever its history, is clearly not the gym's land? Why be, at least, a trespasser? If it's as straightforward as you did it knowingly because the gym spaces didn't afford you the opportunity to carry out XYZ manoeuvre when exiting and therefore you shaved N minutes off the time it took you to ****, then pl say so. 

We're not talking about a one-off issue, your parking habits have persisted for some time. I'd find it useful to understand the context.

And to return to the glaring issue I raised earlier, how could you park, exit car, go to gym, complete a session, recover, return to car and leave within 18 minutes as shown in the PCN you posted?

This point has not been examined in the context of your account, but IMO it should because it challenges your account or the accuracy of their recording system. And what time gaps are revealed in the other PCNs?

The car park gets absolutetly jam-packed in the morning. The only other spaces are on the other side of the building which is shared by yet another gym. You would think that in the mornings there is an abundance of space, but there is not.

Could I drive all the way around and find a space further a way, perhaps. I will not neglect that aspect. However, naturally I chose to park where I have been parking for literal years.

To me, the sign was unclear especially during dark mornings. Sometimes it was even dark when I still left around 8am.

That is the point - it is not clear that it is not the gym's land. The lady on the phone today when I called Jardines remarked how bollards (which are never erected) had been installed and numbers in the spaces, but how was I now supposed to know that means the area is now cordened off? The fact that there are people complaining to Jardines daily makes it clear that there is a clear error on the part of EPS. I saw people parking there today!

As mentioned in other comments, the time gap seems to be around 10-14 minutes in terms of picture taken. To me, it reads as if perhaps they give an 'allowance' of some sort. The contravention time stamp is marked as the latter time. I, of course, stay at the gym longer than this.

But what is the relevance of the timestamps? Regardless, the driver was in that space. The letter does state 'entry and exit times' but there is no footage of my car leaving the spot at any point.

There evidence clearly is flawed, but does that actually help the driver?

I do not have all the time stamps to hand currently, but they are all between the times of 6:10am to 6:30am. One, I recall, registers the number plate at 6:18 and the second picture is at 6:32am. This is the longest time gap I have seen in the PCNs received thus far.

I have taken a picture of the sign put up by the gym recently as what I can only assume is in response to the influx of parking tickets.

The driver parks in the red - as they have been doing for years. Sometimes, in the purple which do have a 'JD' sign on the bottom but are not marked in green on this sign, pointing to inconsistencies.

Another gym car park is the bit in blue.

OP, you have not responded to my earlier point about the fact that there is an entrance sign that you pass that alerts the driver to the fact that there are parking restrictions.

According to GSV, that sign has been in place for several years.

So, can you evidence that the sign no longer exists? Can you provide a photo showing that the sign is no longer there and that there is no other sign at the entrance that conforms to the requirements of the PPCs AOS?

So, depending on your answer to the question above by @DWMB2, we will have an idea on how to advise you to proceed at this stage.