Hey just to keep you updated on my appeal - received a letter today stating that after reviewing my parking charges UKCPS has decided to cancel. They state that "this is a one time gesture of goodwill" and wont be repeated if I re-offend. My initial response to the first letter was based on two arguments (1) I had not entered into any contractual agreement as I had not seen any signs upon entering the car park and therefore under the requirements of a contract the terms had not been satisfied plus taking into consideration bay markings on private land had no bearing in law. A note to other car users - UKCPS have now erected signs on the entrance to the car park at the Colesium plus more signage at eye level to the driver all around the parking area. My second argument consisted in the fact that I had found no parking ticket on the car and demanded that they produce evidence of not only the ticket being issued but in situ on the car plus evidence the car had been parked "out of marked bays". This site has been invaluable in putting my appeal together and it is well worth the effort in appealing - if I had not done my research I may well have been one of the many naïve people who believed they had to pay (and many people probably do as they do not understand they have a great chance to get the fine squashed). Many many thanks

Thanks have sent off my reply letter just waiting for a response will keep you posted.

Hi Eric thanks for the good advice will put a letter together but just a quick question what is a cival tort ?

Hi EricBrother I have done as you requested and posted a new thread - was just going to copy and paste the letter this person wrote but maybe you have a better way to help me out of this ugly situation - not what you want to find when you come back off your holidays

Hi received a letter from UKCPS dated 16th September 2014 stating my car was observed out of marked bay areas on 13th August at 20:05 hours and that a parking ticket had been issued but as I have not responded to the ticket fixed to the vehicle I no longer qualified for the reduced payment and I was now being charged £ 100. I know I have 28 days to respond so I have until 14th October to appeal (at the time I received the reminder I was on holiday and only returned on 21st September). I know I was at the Colesium car park that night as I went to the cinema with my daughter - I cannot recollect exactly where I parked that night due to it being so long ago but I do recall it was very busy and parking was at a premium. Upon talking to my daughter and my husband, we all agree that no ticket was present on the windscreen of the vehicle. I know member LFOZ89 received a reminder letter practically under the same circumstances and had success in them cancelling the charge as a "gesture of goodwill" and I had planned to send the same letter as I have seen that not parking in marked bay areas on private land held no legal grounds. I may also like to add that until I received the letter I was not aware the Colesium car park at the back of the Vue cinema was a patrolled car park area. I have since returned and found that although signs are present unless you are about 3ft away from the sign to read it then you would not know monitoring of parking was present. There are no big signs on entering the parking area (like the signage at Sainsburys which are clear and well distributed) and the A3 size signs are only present on about 5 - 8 lampposts on the car park - the signs could have been for anything like "Collesium does not take responsibility for car safety" etc, etc that you often see posted by car park owners and as a driver trying to find a parking space you would not be able to make the difference. Member "Ericsbrother" has asked me to start a new thread on this to help me out as I feel I have been duped as I consider myself to be a careful driver, never parking in a way that would endanger another person or hinder another parked vehicle. Hope you can help as I really cannot afford to pay the outrageous £ 100 charge they feel would compensate a vehicle being parked "out of marked bay" in a free car park.

hi like LFOZ89 I too have received practically the same letter as yourself for very similar circumstances and considering appealing like yourself. You have not posted an update to your situation and I wondered if you were successful or not.