Depends what you call "correctly worded". Please tell me how you would have written it differently? I could not deny I was parked there so I worked on the premise I had parked there for 3 weeks before displaying the correct signage, could prove I worked in the building opposite and had parked in the spaces specifically provided for our company. Didn't work. The contract with PPS clearly states any transgression of the parking rules (no valid permit or signage, taking up two bays, not parking in a valid space, the usual stuff) is liable to a PCN and they will not support anyone who appeals, as I found out. Fortunately for me my company paid it and they are now in talks with the park owners about this, along with other tenants who feel similarly aggrieved. We understood PPS would stop the problem of people parking in our car park because the establishment next door charges. Turns out they're booking everyone and so far only one person has appealed successfully, and that was because the "second space" they parked in is not big enough for another car as it has bollards in the centre of it.

OK got a reply back. They have washed their hands of any issues relating to parking here and the contract states they have given PPS authority to issue PCN's for any transgressions regardless of whether the person works here or not. Further, I was told they will not support anybody's appeals. Basically their line is rules are rules, if you break them suck it up and pay. Or gamble and hope you don't get the letter before action. Nice people, I hope karma pays them a visit. I now know more than 10 people have been caught since they started here in September. Nobody has been successful with any appeal and they have all paid up.

I have emailed the park managers and asked for their view and if they are not the actual land owners to give me the contact details of that person. My employer has a contract with the park managing agents to provide 22 parking spaces and I was parked in one of those. So I was wondering if this angle could be pushed as I know we pay for the provision of those spaces as part of our rental agreement. I realised the one letter I cannot ignore is the letter before action so I will wait to see what the park manager / land owner has to say. Hopefully I will be somewhat wiser tomorrow.

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First time post and would be grateful for some advice... In September of this year I was issued a PCN for not displaying the correct signage under PPS rules. The car park in question is part of a business park with several tenants, of which ours is one. We have an agreement for 20 or so parking spaces and they are covered with permits, and I have a permit to park one registered car. The signage around the parking areas denoting the T's & C's is clear and unambiguous. I was using my partner's car, not the one which is registered to park here so I was covering the parking with a visitor pass, which is allowed under the rules. However, on the day in question the sign had slipped off the dashboard and under the seat and I did not notice, hence the PCN. The use of my partner's car had been ongoing for some 3 weeks previously and at least 2 weeks since the PCN and I had displayed the visitor pass on every day except when I was issued the PCN. Therefore in my view this is purely a technicality of displaying signage, not that I was not allowed to park here and appealed. On appeal to PPS they unsurprisingly rejected this reasoning saying the rules are the rules, they cannot take mitigating circumstances into account and so on, so I appealed to PoPLA. However, to my surprise they upheld the decision of PPS reiterating the "mitigating circumstances" part and I must pay the £100 in 14 days. It was almost a mirror decision to PPS's. What are PoPLA for if they don't take other circumstances into account? Seems like a rubber stamping process for the parking enforcement companies to me. The 14 day window is fast approaching, so what are my options? I am keen to fight it but am a bit concerned about it going belly up and I end up even more out of pocket.