Thanks
@InterCity125 and
@jfollows. Appreciated.
In brief, my defence is inadequate signage. My children were inside TeamSport Karting. My adult son was racing with friends and they had taken my teenage daughter to watch. I had agreed to call to pick up my daughter as my son and friends were going on elsewhere. My daughter is disabled and has a blue badge. I entered the car park, did not leave my car, except for aiding my daughter to get into the car once my son had brought her outside and arrived at the car side. We then left.
I've uploaded a 55 second to YouTube (
https://youtube.com/shorts/r0WM3j5sITI?feature=share) showing the entry and journey around the car park to a blue badge space. In the first couple of seconds you see the small elevated sign at the car park entrance. You can see how this is not visible as one turns into the car park seated in the driver's seat on the opposite side. There is a photo of the sign beneath. Around the 8th second you will catch site of an unnoticeable lamppost which has a sign which is bent around it and facing the opposite way. At the 17th second you might notice a sign emerging from between two parked cars on the left which is pretty much at ground level. If there were more cars parked there, you would not see it at all. Other than that, you will observe no other signs in my journey to or whilst parked in the space. The black signs on the building mere say private parking for TeamSport customers. I have supplied a photo beneath of a sign in the car park that I've shown was not visible to me - I've provided this to complete the picture.
Here's some of the correspondence previously uploaded to imgur - the original notice from UKPC (4 letters sent in total), the first notice of debt recovery from DCBLegal (4 letters sent in total) and the letter of claim. Then there's my response to the letter of claim and a subsequent exchange with DCBLegal in the thread above that b789 kindly advised on.
I submitted my AoS yesterday. Thanks for any further guidance you can offer. In the meanwhile I will explore this terrific forum for previous advice given in similar circumstances.
