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Driving back from London to Glasgow last week the driver stopped to charge the car at a Holiday Inn, listed on the Electroverse app. They didn’t notice any parking restrictions, and it was away from the motorway.

Ordinarily because they’re in Scotland and it’s a private company, they’d patch it, but since the car is a lease they’d imagine the lease company would not be too happy with this. They would be grateful for advice on how to successfully appeal since the photos don’t show the car parked and it was there for 35 minutes. A quick search online tells me they should’ve registered the car in the hotel, but they did not see such signage. Many thanks.

Link to penalty charge notice: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/7hmhtgex74dig5i5lvyuy/018876.pdf?rlkey=7rtctmvvd4riifx53yzdbjce7&st=oxih4n4k&dl=0
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Presumably this is the PCN to the lease company?  How did you get hold of it?  What does the lease say about parking charges - note this is not a fine but a speculative invoice.  Provided you can get the lease company to transfer liability to you as hirer, then it's very likely that the parking co will mess up the transfer and give you an out - but you might still have to pay the lease co an admin fee - or the may just try and pay it and back charge you.  Will depend on what it says on the lease, and how they interpret it.
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I’ve already been sent an admin charge letter by the lease company, and they forwarded the charge/speculative invoice letter to me.
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OK, so as long as the lease co transfer liability it's most likely you will get out with only the admin fee.  Wait till you get a PCN to Hirer in you own name and come back with the info on that.  The parking co are required to send additional docs with the Hirer PCN, but they never do (or at least we have never seen them do so yet!), so the liability transfer fails - it might require going as far as small claims court before they back down of course.
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