Parking Eye - Incorrect Car Park Location

Parking Eye - Incorrect Car Park Location

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Motorman74

Original Poster:

432 posts

28 months

Wednesday 14th August
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The wife has got herself a Parking Eye Parking Charge Notice - went to a local coffee shop, spent 2 hours gossiping with friends, car park limit is less than that, so bang to rights really. I'm also minded to pay because the time it will take to fight it is just not worth it and as I said, she's bang to rights.

However, the address where this took place is incorrect on the notice - I'm not going to put too much detail on here in case Parking Eye are looking out for these sort of questions.

The error is quite significant, as the place name doesn't exist in the UK as a result of their error.

What do people think - a likely cause to win an appeal?

cobra kid

5,240 posts

247 months

Wednesday 14th August
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Is there a photograph?

KungFuPanda

4,450 posts

177 months

Wednesday 14th August
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Just defend the ticket on the basis that your vehicle was definitely not parked in the location that they allege. It clearly wasn’t.

Motorman74

Original Poster:

432 posts

28 months

Wednesday 14th August
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There is a photo - I don't think there is any defence at all - bang to rights, as I said, inclined to pay. They didn't even buy multiple coffees - just one coffee each and too much time talking.

I'm going to submit an appeal - not all of the address information is incorrect, but as it's a business park and the town is essentially made up - it's worth a punt I guess.

mmm-five

11,432 posts

291 months

Wednesday 14th August
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Is the business park and postcode correct (and maybe coordinates if they're on the photo), and it's just the wrong/impossible town that's your grounds for appeal?

edthedead

386 posts

189 months

Monday 26th August
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I had something similar, don't think it was parking eye though. Parked on a double yellow line on a Sunday to pop into Eurocarparts and got a ticket from a private company with photos take via CCTV. The location given was the name of the warehouse adjacent to the road, which presumably was the "private" access road to the warehouse, which also gave allowed access to a number of other businesses. I appealed on the grounds that I was not parked in address given, also the signs were inadequate and facing the wrong way. I can't remember how far it went but I got it quashed.

Have a look on pepipoo and get some advice, there are lots of ways to successfully appeal private parking fines. I have had a few and always found a way to successfully appeal (so far!).

silverfoxcc

7,829 posts

152 months

Tuesday 27th August
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It is ftla.com (or org) now

Alex Z

1,506 posts

83 months

Tuesday 27th August
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How incorrect is the address?

Are we talking about Lodnon instead of London or something more fundamental?

Red Devil

13,190 posts

215 months

Tuesday 27th August
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edthedead said:
I had something similar, don't think it was parking eye though. Parked on a double yellow line on a Sunday to pop into Eurocarparts and got a ticket from a private company with photos take via CCTV. The location given was the name of the warehouse adjacent to the road, which presumably was the "private" access road to the warehouse, which also gave allowed access to a number of other businesses. I appealed on the grounds that I was not parked in address given, also the signs were inadequate and facing the wrong way. I can't remember how far it went but I got it quashed.

Have a look on pepipoo and get some advice, there are lots of ways to successfully appeal private parking fines. I have had a few and always found a way to successfully appeal (so far!).
Pepipoo is defunct and has been for some time. These are the sites to visit. The second one is more in depth.
https://www.ftla.uk/private-parking-tickets/.
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/48...
Unfortunately a considerable percentage of people fail to do their homework BEFORE communicating with a PPC.