the ticket was left on my windscreen and has nothing to do with my employer. my employer has nothing to with the parking charge, so its a case of: do i write to MET and say im not paying, or do i ignore them completely

thanks lamma. i've had a look on the site this morning and it seems everybody just says to ignore the ticket. its just a nagging doubt in the back of my mind. but i can argue that i wasnt there at 9.10am I guess and they need to prove that I was...? so should i just stick the ticket in the back of my cupboard, not write to inform them that I won't be paying? Thanks for your help!

Hi I'm new to this, so hope someone out there can help! My office is a shared building with parking bays allocated to various companies, therefore not every member of staff has a bay, and so I usually park a few streets away from my office. However in the school holidays the bays are often empty so sometimes staff park in bays which aren’t allocated to them. I was late for work by 45 minutes a few days ago and so parked in an empty bay belonging to one of the other companies so I could get to work faster. I parked at 9.45am. When I went to my car at 5.30 I had a ticket from Met Parking Services with a £100 fine, reduced by 50% if paid in 14days. It wasn’t until I got home that I saw that the ticket said it was issued at 9.10am, which simply wasn’t possible. Despite the fact that I did park in a space which wasn’t allocated to me, the ticket was issued incorrectly, I wonder how valid this ticket is? I checked for any signage today, and could see only one sign, on the approach to the parking bays, which is at knee height. The terms of ‘contract’ are presented, but one sign seems inadequate – it is quite small and very low. Although, between you and I, I know that I shouldn’t have parked there, I wonder if I still have grounds not to pay purely because they issued the ticket supposedly at 9.10 am when I was 15 miles away stuck in traffic. I am no longer living at the address registered with the DVLA, I moved home 4 weeks ago and havent gotten around to updating the DVLA yet, so any further demands for payment will go to my old address (my parents’ home). I understand that private parking companies have no grounds for ‘enforcement’ or to send debt collectors? Should I decide not to pay up, I’d hate to think of anyone banging on my mother’s door demanding money!? I wonder if you might advise me, would you suggest I contact them and appeal, pay up or ignore them. Any advice would be much appreciated.