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Hi

Can anyone please advise me on the best course of action to take.

I have received a private parking charge of £100 for a car registered at our address. The car is registered to my daughter who is a leaner driver.

The charge has been issued for 'parking in an area where no parking is allowed'. A reduced charge of £60 is payable if paid early. 

The car was stopped for 2 minutes 59seconds in the area that was deemed a car park. The car was at no time unattended.

I don't know if I have done the right thing but I have appealed on behalf of my daughter, explaining the circumstances and the reasons for stopping where we did. The Company ( UKPC) have written back asking for my daughter's permission to correspond with myself as she is the registered keeper.

Basically, the car was being used for a lesson and we pulled over off the main road to talk about what had happened as my daughter was becoming stressed. We pulled over next to a sign saying no parking in this car park (it said on the sign to see notices in car park for terms and conditions). We thought by parking next to the sign and driving no further, we were not breaking any rules, especially as we thought we were on a road and not a car park. The sign is very misleading.

I'm not sure on what action to take next as the charge is against my daughter who is the registered keeper and had no idea she was doing anything wrong.

Any advice is welcomed

Thankyou
 

You cannot appeal on behalf of anyone if the Notice to Keeper (NtK) is not addressed to you. In other words, only the Keeper can appeal. However, what is much, much more important is that you hopefully have not blabbed the identity of the driver.

The Keeper is under no legal obligation to identify the driver to an unregulated private parking firm. In the majority of cases, there is no Keeper liability if the operator has not complied fully with all the requirements of PoFA 2012. Only the unknown driver can be liable. So, what EXACTLY did you put in your correspondence with UKPC when you appealed 'on behalf of' your daughter?

If you follow the advice you won't be paying a penny to UKPC.