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Hi,

I’ve received this PCN from UK CPM due to 'parking outside a marked bay'. The car park is on private land associated with a small shopping complex in Margate. I’m wondering whether it’s worth appealing?

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The car was not intruding into another spot - the wheel is in this no mans land between the spot and the no parking hatches.

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The conditions say ‘park wholly’ which is leading me to believe any appeal will be fruitless, but keen for any advice.

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Thank you
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The usual advice is to ensure the driver is not identified and appeal on the basis of non-compliance with PoFA 2012, which is the legislation under which liability can be transferred from the unknown driver to the registered keeper, because no “period of parking” is given on the notice, and possibly other failures. The appeal will be rejected, but if you stay the course it will end up in nothing.
If you search the forum you will find similar cases and appeals.
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Quote from: jfollows on March 20, 2026, 10:39:41 am
The usual advice is to ensure the driver is not identified and appeal on the basis of non-compliance with PoFA 2012, which is the legislation under which liability can be transferred from the unknown driver to the registered keeper, because no “period of parking” is given on the notice, and possibly other failures. The appeal will be rejected, but if you stay the course it will end up in nothing.
If you search the forum you will find similar cases and appeals.

Thank you.

I've had a look at the PoFA 2012 legislation but it's not clear to me what 'period of parking' refers to. Does the incident date/time on the PCN not cover this? If not, what should have been included on the notice for it to be compliant?

And when you say 'stay the course' what exactly do you mean? That they will give up before it goes to court?
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A period is not a single instance in time.
A period is a duration, which needs to be longer than the “consideration period” under which the driver can read the terms and conditions and choose not to accept them and leave.
13:33 is not a period of time.
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Search the forum, but you will probably need to defend a court claim from BW Legal in due course. If you see what’s involved, you can decide whether to pay up now or fight the case. This forum will support you if you take the latter approach.
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The NtK appears to fail PoFA compliance on several issues as well as parking period.

9(2)(e) is not satisfied.

9(2)(f) is missing an important part of the required warning.
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Quote from: InterCity125 on March 20, 2026, 11:22:25 am
The NtK appears to fail PoFA compliance on several issues as well as parking period.

9(2)(e) is not satisfied.

9(2)(f) is missing an important part of the required warning.

What part of 9(2)(f) do you think is missing? The last para looked like it covered (i) and (ii) of 9(2)(f) to me
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