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       #Post#: 118314--------------------------------------------------
       Bristol Airport VCS Charge Notice 25 April 2026
   DIR By: PhilG48
       Date: May 11, 2026, 5:03 am
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       I am the registered keeper of this car. The car paused at the
       entrance to the airport on Downside Road in order to do a
       u-turn.
       The reduced charge amount has to be paid by 14 May. The notice
       posted to me on 1 May arrived on 8 May.
       This entrance to the airport has been modified since the last
       Google street view, which is dated September 2024.
       I propose to reply to the notice as follows:
       'The vehicle paused at this entrance to the airport while safely
       executing a u-turn. It was not stopped in the common usage of
       this term. The driver's details will not be shared.'
       Any advice in the next three days would be gratefully received.
       Images of the car VK22KKJ at
  HTML https://imgpile.com/p/8xcRHLf
       and
  HTML https://imgpile.com/p/tB2HTj1
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       Re: Bristol Airport VCS Charge Notice 25 April 2026
   DIR By: John U.K.
       Date: May 11, 2026, 5:16 am
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       I'll move this to Private Parking. It sounds as if this thread
       may be of interest
  HTML https://www.ftla.uk/private-parking-tickets/vcs-bristol-airport/15/
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       Re: Bristol Airport VCS Charge Notice 25 April 2026
   DIR By: jfollows
       Date: May 11, 2026, 5:19 am
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       The notice? I don’t think you posted it, anyway.
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       Re: Bristol Airport VCS Charge Notice 25 April 2026
   DIR By: PhilG48
       Date: May 12, 2026, 10:52 am
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       I have added links to a picture of the 'offence' and of the
       notice to the original post.
       Philip
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       Re: Bristol Airport VCS Charge Notice 25 April 2026
   DIR By: Sander333
       Date: May 12, 2026, 3:45 pm
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       You will have fight this PCN as you state you did not stop but
       did a U turn which does not necessarily mean you have stopped
       the car car. Have you signage which may help. This needs to be
       challenged by the RK not naming the driver and being in it for
       the long haul it seems ridiculous that a driver doing a U turn
       needs to justify the car being stopped to compete a manoeuvre
       but private parking companies are in it for financial gain.
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       Re: Bristol Airport VCS Charge Notice 25 April 2026
   DIR By: DWMB2
       Date: May 12, 2026, 4:55 pm
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       At face value, 20 seconds seems quite a while for a vehicle to
       seemingly remain stationary whilst performing a U-turn. That
       said, this doesn't create a contractual liability to VCS.
       There are a couple of grounds on which you can raise a
       challenge:
       - The vehicle needed to stop in order to perform a U-turn
       (although as above, you may wish to consider why the driver
       remained stopped for as long as they did)
       - The signage (and the 'term' allegedly breached') are
       prohibitive. Getting more recent images of the signage would
       help here. A sign which prohibits stopping would not appear to
       offer any valuable consideration - it doesn't communicate an
       offer to park, just a ban on stopping, and as such no contract
       can have been formed.
       - Even if a contract was formed, the land is not relevant land
       for the purposes of Schedule 4 of the Protection of Freedoms Act
       (PoFA), as it is subject to statutory control in the form of
       airport byelaws, therefore they cannot rely on PoFA to hold you
       liable as the registered keeper of the vehicle.
       - Subject to getting images of the signage as above, there may
       be an argument that the signage was not sufficiently prominent.
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