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       #Post#: 127694--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Peak District National Park - Missed payment -Notice of
       charge
   DIR By: InterCity125
       Date: August 13, 2026, 1:52 am
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       Could the OP please post the full response from PDNP with regard
       to their admission that it was a Parking Charge Notice?
       #Post#: 127696--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Peak District National Park - Missed payment -Notice of
       charge
   DIR By: J89eu
       Date: August 13, 2026, 3:19 am
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       Sure here is the attachment, the text I put in my previous post
       was the entirety of the email otherwise.
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       #Post#: 127756--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Peak District National Park - Missed payment -Notice of
       charge
   DIR By: tincombe
       Date: August 13, 2026, 3:59 pm
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       Your initial 'appeal' pl.
       May I suggest and with respect that we look at this against the
       legislative backdrop which is stated i.e. byelaws, and not try
       and shoe-horn this into one of our normal categories of parking
       charge or penalty charge.
       Neither applies IMO.
       It's a breach of byelaws.
  HTML https://www.peakdistrict.gov.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0028/99334/Sealed-Byelaws-28.05.2024.pdf
       'Any person'...' 'Authority's conditions for the time being
       displayed blah blah,,'
       'Any person offending....summary conviction...level 2 on
       standard scale'
       Pl stop playing their game. Ask them by what authority they are
       demanding a specified sum as opposed to them taking action
       against the 'person' in accordance with the byelaws.
       IMO, what the apparatchiks have done (perhaps, I haven't seen
       the 'conditions displayed') is to circumvent the prescribed
       process, and commit an offence themselves, by including in these
       'conditions' matters which are properly the preserve of the
       byelaws and the byelaw making process.
       #Post#: 127759--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Peak District National Park - Missed payment -Notice of
       charge
   DIR By: J89eu
       Date: August 13, 2026, 4:01 pm
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       Sure, initial "appeal"
       --- Quote ---
       > Dear Car Park Enforcement Team,
       > Re: Notice of Charge and Intended Prosecution Ref: ---
       > Vehicle Registration: ---
       > Location: Hurst Clough Car Park
       > Date of alleged offence: 18/07/2026
       > I am writing as the registered keeper of the above vehicle
       regarding the Notice of Charge and Intended Prosecution issued
       under Byelaw 5 of the Byelaws for Car Parks.
       > I respectfully request that the Authority exercises its
       discretion and withdraws this notice.
       > The driver did not intentionally avoid paying the required
       parking charge. The intention was to pay for parking; however,
       payment could not be completed at the time due to the lack of
       mobile phone signal at the location.
       > I note that the notice itself acknowledges that a Notice of
       Charge and Intended Prosecution could not be placed on the
       vehicle at the time because a 24-hour payment period is provided
       due to the lack of mobile signal at the car park. This confirms
       that the Authority recognises the practical difficulties
       visitors may experience when attempting to make payment at this
       location.
       > Unfortunately, after leaving the car park, the driver forgot
       to return to the matter and complete payment within the
       available period. This was an honest mistake and not an attempt
       to avoid the parking charge.
       > The vehicle was parked in good faith, with the intention that
       the appropriate parking fee would be paid. There was no
       deliberate breach of the byelaws or attempt to deprive the
       Authority of the parking charge.
       > Given the circumstances, I respectfully ask that this matter
       is treated as an isolated mistake and that the Notice of Charge
       and Intended Prosecution is withdrawn, with no further action
       taken.
       > Thank you for considering this request. I look forward to
       confirmation that this matter has been closed.
       > Yours faithfully,
       > ---
       > Registered Keeper
       --- End Quote ---
       #Post#: 127760--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Peak District National Park - Missed payment -Notice of
       charge
   DIR By: tincombe
       Date: August 13, 2026, 4:24 pm
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       Thanks.
       Notice of Charge and Intended Prosecution
       Says it all IMO. As I read the byelaws, there's no such beast:
       breach = liability to prosecution.
       #Post#: 127770--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Peak District National Park - Missed payment -Notice of
       charge
   DIR By: InterCity125
       Date: August 14, 2026, 1:45 am
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       --- Quote from: tincombe link ---
       >
       > Thanks.
       >
       > Notice of Charge and Intended Prosecution
       >
       > Says it all IMO. As I read the byelaws, there's no such beast:
       breach = liability to prosecution.
       >
       --- End Quote ---
       Agree 100%.
       But, as we were trying to work out, how have they turned a
       byelaw breach into what is technically a legal breach of
       contract (which is what a Parking Charge Notice is)? Answer:
       there is no way they can do that.
       The other alternative is that their 'parking charge' is simply
       an offer of out of court settlement thus avoiding a
       'prosecution' under said byelaws. However, if that is the case,
       then it must be labelled as such.
       The notice, as they have sent it, is extremely misleading in
       that respect - suggesting that a 'parking charge' is owed when
       no debt can possibly exist.
       So, somewhere, they have clearly misused the KODOE (DVLA) system
       to obtain the keeper's details - maybe they can access the data
       legitimately as an authority but that does not allow them to
       then generate Parking Charge Notice - the DVLA data can only be
       used for the direct purposes of the byelaw breach (ie
       Magistrates Court). They cannot obtain the data under one guise
       and then 'switch tracks' which appears to be how their 'system'
       works.
       #Post#: 127771--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Peak District National Park - Missed payment -Notice of
       charge
   DIR By: tincombe
       Date: August 14, 2026, 2:46 am
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       OP, if you are the registered keeper then, as their letter says,
       'please wait for a further letter'.
       IMO, rise above the minutiae pl, don't feel that everything they
       write must be countered, it doesn't. While you're waiting for
       this 'further letter', do you have photos or GSV of the signs at
       the site?
       #Post#: 127773--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Peak District National Park - Missed payment -Notice of
       charge
   DIR By: J89eu
       Date: August 14, 2026, 3:07 am
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       --- Quote from: tincombe link ---
       >
       > OP, if you are the registered keeper then, as their letter
       says, 'please wait for a further letter'.
       >
       > IMO, rise above the minutiae pl, don't feel that everything
       they write must be countered, it doesn't. While you're waiting
       for this 'further letter', do you have photos or GSV of the
       signs at the site?
       >
       --- End Quote ---
       I've only got the pic of the sign I attached in the original
       post. Not sure what GSV is though?
       #Post#: 127774--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Peak District National Park - Missed payment -Notice of
       charge
   DIR By: jfollows
       Date: August 14, 2026, 3:08 am
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       Google Street View
       #Post#: 127775--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Peak District National Park - Missed payment -Notice of
       charge
   DIR By: J89eu
       Date: August 14, 2026, 3:11 am
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       In that case no, there is street view but the signs are all
       blocked by cars it seems:
  HTML https://maps.app.goo.gl/zURCFrVdktXtcXtJA
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