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I received a parking ticket on Uxbridge Industrial Estate. The nature of the events have me questioning the legality of it
On Uxbridge Industrial Estate a company has purchased two of the roads to make the private.

Business still operate on the road and the road looks like any other road on an industrial estate I was visiting a customer for a days work. Pulled in the industrial state and followed the sat nav to their premises. Upon reaching the place I found there car park was full with no place to park.

I pulled up on the road outside to ring their bell to ask about parking. No double yellows were visible on the roads.
It must have been less than 30 seconds between me getting out my car and them opening the door and the guy at the door informed me I was getting a ticket.

I turned around to see another car parked behind mine taking a photo of my car. I was informed by the customer that they get everyone round there.

After this I did then notice the signs at the side of the road indicating it was a private road and no parking was allowed.
I watched for 5-10 mins to witness 2 cars driving up and down the road following cars onto the road and as soon as they pulled over they would ticket them immediately. Lorry's and van drivers making deliveries all got ticketed as soon as they pulled onto the side of road and left the vehicle.

Obviously I am very annoyed by this as I believe I was put into a situation where this was unavoidable.

Only a heads up from the customer which they didn't give me would have made me aware of the situation. Even to pull over to read the signs would have been too late to avoid a ticket
My questions are how legal this practice is ?

The customer and my company are both refusing to pay this ticket for me.

I can pay within 14 days to reduce it from £100 to £60

I can appeal but l'm not sure how much chance I will get as I have no proof I was only 30 seconds parked

I could refuse to pay and let them take me to court. Would a small claims court side with me to say it's ridiculous and predatory behaviour from this company.

Show the Notice to Keeper (NtK) you received. They have no idea of the drivers identity and unless their NtK fully complies with all the requirements of PoFA, they cannot hold the Keeper liable. If the NtK does not state a "period of parking", or even it if does but it is less than 5 minutes, the NtK is not PoFA compliant.

Unfortunately, the vat majority of people that receive these PCNs have no idea of their rights and how to properly challenge them. If you're here receiving advice and following it, you will not be paying penny.