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Parked in McDonalds car park on 20/6/25 in a disabled bay with a disabled person in the car; received a Parking Charge by post about a week later; followed the advice on here. Below is the latest exchange with the response from MET at the bottom sent on12/8/25


Sent by me on 22/7/25 (copied from FTLA)

Dear MET Parking Services,

Your latest response merely confirms your continued disregard for both the law and common decency.

To reiterate: the Keeper has no legal obligation to identify the driver. You are not a statutory authority and have no power whatsoever to compel disclosure of that information. You are a self-interested, unregulated private parking company operating on the basis of alleged contracts which, by your own NTK, can only bind a driver. The Keeper declines to assist your fishing expedition.

As for your request to view the reverse side of a Blue Badge: you have absolutely no legal right to demand access to sensitive personal data such as names and photographs, particularly when the front of the badge has already been provided, clearly demonstrating its validity at the time in question. Your request is not only excessive, it is wholly inappropriate and constitutes a misuse of personal data under the UK GDPR.

You are reminded that your NTK fails to comply with the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012, meaning you cannot pursue the Keeper. Your signage fails the mandatory standards set out in the BPA/IPC Private Parking Single Code of Practice, and your operator images do not evidence any “period of parking” as required under Schedule 4. No contract was formed, and no contravention occurred.

Your speculative invoicing is therefore baseless, and your repeated requests for irrelevant or private information will not be entertained. You are urged to cancel this unjustified charge or reject the appeal and provide a POPLA code where you will be free to waste your money on having an assessor repeat what I have already pointed out and order you to cancel the PCN




MET Response
Dear Mr ,
Re: Parking Charge Notice Number AB22929772 (Vehicle: )
Site: (129) McDonald's Bow
Issue date: 20/06/2025
Thank you for your correspondence in respect of the above charge. In order for us to consider your appeal fully please
can you confirm if the Blue Badge belongs to the driver or the passenger at the time of this contravention.
If the Blue Badge holder was a passenger at the time, please also confirm if the Blue Badge holder remained in the
vehicle for the duration of the time you were in the disabled bay. Your response can be uploaded at
www.appealmetparking.com.
We are confident that our notice to keeper complies in all respects with the requirements of the Protection of Freedoms
Act and you are advised that where the charge has not been paid in full and 29 days has passed since we issued the
charge and we still do not know the name and address for service of court papers of the driver, we are entitled to pursue
the registered keeper for payment of the outstanding charge.
We have placed your charge on hold for a further 14 days to allow you time to send us this information. If we do not
receive the information by the end of the 14 days we will have to reach a decision on your appeal based on the
information we hold at that time.

Yes, attached [ Guests cannot view attachments ]

OK. So the NtK is not PoFA compliant with paragraph 9(2)(a) as there is no period of parking and there is no evidence that the vehicle remained for longer than the minimum consideration period for the driver to enter into a contract with the operator.

Please also show us what correspondence you have made with the operator up to this point. The two bits of correspondence you've referenced need a bit more context, even though we understand the point being made.

This was my original appeal 7/7/25  (from one of your previous replies to a thread)

I am the keeper of the vehicle, and I dispute your 'parking charge'. I deny any liability or contractual agreement and will be making a complaint about your predatory conduct to your client landowner.

As your Notice to Keeper (NtK) does not fully comply with all the requirements of PoFA 2012, you are unable to hold the keeper of the vehicle liable for the charge. Partial or even substantial compliance is not sufficient. There will be no admission as to who was driving, and no inference or assumptions can be drawn. MET has relied on contract law allegations of breach against the driver only.

The registered keeper cannot be presumed or inferred to have been the driver, nor pursued under some twisted interpretation of the law of agency. Your NtK can only hold the driver liable.

Furthermore, your signage fails to comply with the Private Parking Single Code of Practice (PPSCoP) Section 4.1, which states:

"The parking operator must ensure that at least one sign containing the terms and conditions for parking can be viewed without the driver needing to leave the vehicle, in order for drivers with a disability to be able to make an informed decision on whether to park at the premises."

There are no signs with terms that can be viewed from within the vehicle, meaning that a driver with a disability was unable to make an informed decision before parking. The vehicle was parked in a disabled bay, and all occupants, including the driver, are Blue Badge holders. A copy of a valid Blue Badge is attached.

Additionally, your NtK fails to specify any "period of parking", as required by PoFA 2012 Schedule 4, Paragraph 9(2)(a). A single timestamp does not constitute a period of parking and does not evidence that the vehicle was stopped for more than the minimum consideration period before leaving. No contract was formed.

MET have no hope at POPLA, so you are urged to save us both a complete waste of time and cancel the PCN.





Their reply 22/7/25

Re: Parking Charge Notice Number AB22929772 (Vehicle: LF19DPO)
Site: (129) McDonald's Bow
Issue date: 20/06/2025
Thank you for your correspondence in respect of the above charge. We are confident that our notice to keeper complies
in all respects with the requirements of the Protection of Freedoms Act and you are advised that where the charge has
not been paid in full and 29 days has passed since we issued the charge and we still do not know the name and address
for service of court papers of the driver, we are entitled to pursue the registered keeper for payment of the outstanding
charge.
So that we can fully consider your appeal can you kindly provide us with a copy of the front and back of the blue badge,
clearly showing the expiry date and name of the BB holder. This can be uploaded at www.appealmetparking.com. We
have placed your charge on hold for a further 14 days to allow you time to send us this information. If we do not receive
this by the end of the 14 days, we will have to reach a decision on your appeal based on the information we hold at that
time

Received a response from MET today but cant work out how to post an image or the actual pdf??

Got it. Thanks

https://imgur.com/a/0Qg1ImR

Thank you v much

Thanks. Will do.