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#Post#: 101315--------------------------------------------------
Paid for parking with Parking Eye, received fine, appeal
rejected
DIR By: mancuk
Date: December 6, 2025, 4:32 pm
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I paid for a parking space at this location in Ambleside -
HTML https://maps.app.goo.gl/sXW9pkQVZ2sPfTAK6.
Street view doesn't
show the pay machine as it wasn't installed at that point.
I was not prompted for my registration address. I just pressed
the tick button until the time was enough for what I wanted. I
then provided payment using my contactless card. The ANPR camera
took a photo of my car 3 minutes after the transaction.
When I received a fine from Parking Eye, I appealed using a
screenshot of the contactless payment - showing the amount, time
and location of the payment therefore confirming I was there at
that time, and paid for parking.
The appeal was rejected, saying that a registration is required.
But I do not recall being asked for one, and the machine happily
provided me with options to which I confirmed and paid for.
They are now saying pay £20 in 14 days, or appeal to POPLA. If I
do appeal the £20 is no longer under offer. I 100% paid for the
ticket and am unsure why the payment confirmation within a 5
minute period at the same location as the payment machine is
evidence enough?
#Post#: 101323--------------------------------------------------
Re: Paid for parking with Parking Eye, received fine, appeal
rejected
DIR By: jfollows
Date: December 7, 2025, 3:16 am
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You didn’t pay Parking Eye, the money the driver paid went to
the land owner, and Parking Eye in return gets the right to
pursue people who break the rules and keep the money they can
extract.
It’s not a “fine” so please understand this. It’s an invoice for
payment under the contract the driver entered into by parking.
Did your appeal identify the driver? If not, please post the
notice you received per the guidelines posted at the top of this
forum plus the text of your appeal.
If you go to POPLA it is unlikely they will uphold your appeal,
so it will go to a court claim for which you will get support
here to defend. But is it worth £20 to avoid a process which
will probably take 9 months?
It’s not fair that you have to pay for a failure of their
machine, I agree, but how do you prove on the balance of
probabilities that this was the case?
#Post#: 101328--------------------------------------------------
Re: Paid for parking with Parking Eye, received fine, appeal
rejected
DIR By: Dave65
Date: December 7, 2025, 4:46 am
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Yes, the failure of the machine, by rights the machine should
not let you move forward and pay without a VRM entered.
An example of how these PPC work.
#Post#: 101375--------------------------------------------------
Re: Paid for parking with Parking Eye, received fine, appeal
rejected
DIR By: ixxy
Date: December 7, 2025, 1:18 pm
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Can you post images of the front and back of the PCN and your
receipt from the machine if you still have it.
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