Hi all,

Wondered if you could give me some advice.

I was in Grahame Park in Hendon today and needed to pop to the Sainsbury's local store.

There was a lay by to the side of the store which had cars parked in it already and I pulled in,

was just about to get out of the car and a bloke walking past said

"Don't park here mate, its a loading bay and they are taking pictures of the cars".

I thanked him and got back in the car but as I was pulling out into the traffic,

a woman appeared and took a picture of my car and the registration plate.

I went back there later (without the car!) and fair enough, there are 4 signs up

but they are at least 10ft in the air and the wording of them is tiny,

there's no way anyone could read them without getting on top of them.

They say the usual about agreeing to pay consideration in the form of a parking charge,

£100 and £60 if paid within a time period etc.

I must have only been there for about 3 minutes at the most and there was no ticket put on the car

but what do you reckon I should do?

To make matters more complicated I've only just moved and the car still registered to my old address!

Any advice would be much appreciated,

Thanks

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Hi,

Yeah, I'll get it sorted but what's the significance of the address in this case?

Thanks

they could file to your last known...

got redirect in place

or an arrangement to get mail fwded?

when did you move?

dx

And you could get another fine from the DVLA for not keeping your details updated.

Can you take a photograph of those signs as well ?

thye will use the provisions of the PoFA to get the keeper details of the vehicle.

This will be your old address so they will write to you there.

They are obliged to do this within a certain time so I hope you have your post being forwarded by RM or you will never know whether they are compliant with the law or not to create a keeper liability, which they must use as they havent issued a ticket for the driver.

There are lots of reasons why you should update your keepr details, you are currently uninsured for example unless your insurer has for some reason agreed to a very peculiar variation of their contract.

back to business,

you can always argue that you stopped to read the signs

and having done so moved the vehicle.

They cant argue about that unless they can prove you were there more than 10 minutes whilst you phoned your lawyer to go through the wording carefully as per the Beavis recommendation so ultimately they will rely on bluff and threats to get you to pay up.