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BRITANNIA PARKING ONGOING DISPUTE
DIR By: Tony
Date: December 7, 2025, 4:10 am
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Can you help please - as the registered owner of a vehicle that
Britania issued a parking ticket to in a Waitrose car park -
they are not responding in a positive way to my emails and I
have now receieved a letter from a debt collector demanding that
I pay the fine - should I pay or fight this ? My last
correspondence and reply from Britannia is as below - I am not
sure how to respond back ?
Good Morning,
Thank you for your email.
It is our choice as a car park management company to decide
whether to refer to the Keeper Liability provisions in Schedule
4 of POFA 2012, when we issue a Parking Charge. Britannia
Parking made no assumptions as to the identity of the driver.
The identity of the driver does not affect the validity of a
Parking Charge.
We have written to you as the vehicle’s keeper to inform you of
any outstanding contraventions against your vehicle. Since,
transfer of liability has not been requested the Parking Charge
in question remains under your details.
Under BPA guidelines, all appeals must be received with 28 days
from the date of our initial correspondence. Since, your appeal
was not submitted within the given timeframe we could not upload
your email to be reviewed as your appeal for the Parking Charge:
A7141847.
You have been previously informed that, we are required to
consider appeals received outside of the normal 28-day period
allowed for lodging an appeal, where the appellant provides
evidence of exceptional circumstances for the appeal not being
lodged within the normal timeframes (Eg. when the recipient
being away or abroad when the notice was delivered).
The requested evidence of being away was not provided;
therefore, your email did not meet the late appeal submission
criteria.
Please be informed that a payment of £70 for the Parking Charge:
XXXXXXX is outstanding.
How to Pay:
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HTML https://britannia-parking.ec6pay.com/
and
follow the onscreen instructions. Please have your parking
charge number and payment card details ready.
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Kind Regards,
Attention of XXXX,
Thank you for your email admitting again that your Parking
charge is non Compliant and indeed you are aware that your claim
under the old ‘implied contract with the driver’ rules have been
rendered obsolete in recent court cases.
I can only once again reiterate :
Your admission that the Notice to Keeper is non-compliant with
the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 (PoFA) confirms that you
have no lawful basis to pursue the registered keeper for this
charge.
Your continued reliance on "implied contract with the driver"
arguments, rendered obsolete over a decade ago with the
introduction PoFA, demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding
of the legal framework governing private parking enforcement. As
confirmed in the persuasive appellate decision in VCS v Edward
[2023], there is no presumption that the keeper was the driver,
and your assertion is therefore legally baseless and simply
exposes either the sheer desperation or utter ignorance of
whoever penned the letter.
The continual use of excuses to attempt to twist the law and
mislead registered keepers into believing they can somehow be
held liable has already been reported to the DVLA. All your
correspondence, including your latest effort, will be retained
and used as evidence of this intellectually malnourished
behaviour — which clearly exposes your failure to abide by the
Code of Practice and thus your breach of the KADOE contract.
If you are unable to grasp these basic legal principles, you are
welcome to reject my appeal and issue a POPLA code. Otherwise I
assume that you will immediately cancel the charge.
Yours sincerely,
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Re: BRITANNIA PARKING ONGOING DISPUTE
DIR By: mickR
Date: December 7, 2025, 4:21 am
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HTML https://www.ftla.uk/private-parking-tickets/read-this-first-private-parking-charges-forum-guide/
sight of the actual correspondence woukd be helpful.
assumptions are:
the PCN and NTK are not pofa compliant, and
you have not divulged the identity of the driver.
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Re: BRITANNIA PARKING ONGOING DISPUTE
DIR By: jfollows
Date: December 8, 2025, 12:18 am
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Ignore debt collectors, do not contact them in any way.
Come back when you get a Letter of Claim.
As [member=75]mickR[/member] has said, if his assumptions are
correct then they can’t transfer liability to you from the
unknown driver.
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Re: BRITANNIA PARKING ONGOING DISPUTE
DIR By: Tony
Date: December 8, 2025, 12:38 am
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Thanks for these replies, yes I can confirm that the identity of
the driver has not been detailed, should I write back again just
to re-iterate what I have already said ? Are they right in
saying "The identity of the driver does not affect the validity
of a Parking Charge"
In terms of the debt collector do I ignore their letter of Claim
?
Thanks.
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Re: BRITANNIA PARKING ONGOING DISPUTE
DIR By: jfollows
Date: December 8, 2025, 12:41 am
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Debt collectors do not send a Letter of Claim, that will come
from a bulk litigator, will be called such and will give you 30
days, post it here and you will get advice on a reply.
Their parking charge can be pursued as a breach of contract for
six years if they know the identity of the driver.
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