Do you have a receipt from Lidl for that day? If you do, you should first try Plan A and get them to cancel the PCN. Don’t mention that you used their car park also to remain on their property in excess of the terms.
If they don’t cancel, then you will never have to pay a penny to ECP anyway, if you follow the advice. Even though their NtKs are never 100% compliant with PoFa, you would never win that argument unless you had to do so in front of a judge.
It would never reach that stage even though this will end up being a county court claim. As long as the claim is defended using the template defence we provide, it would eventually be discontinued. No doubt about it.
You can go through the futile appeals process if you want, but the eventual outcome will still be as I have outlined above.
Initial appeal, rejection, POPLA appeal, rejection, ignore useless debt recovery letters, Letter of Claim (LoC), N1SDT Claim form, defend, N180DQ, waste of time mediation call, allocation to your local county court, Directions Order and eventual Notice of Discontinuation N279.
The. Whole process will take around 9-12+ months. If you want to go through the useless appeals process first, then a quick search of the forum for any recent ECP PCN will give you the suggested appeal texts.
Or… just skip everything until the LoC or claim defence stage.
