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#Post#: 103594--------------------------------------------------
Morrisons Overstay, my fault in essecnce but really?
DIR By: Hully333
Date: December 22, 2025, 12:35 pm
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OK, i live opposite a Morrison that i use all the time and have
done for a long time, moved here recently from 1/2 a mile away,
so its always been my local Morrisons. I walk down the driveway,
cross the road, go through the bushes into the Morrisons car
park, lovely. I had to do a run the other day and drove up the
road to my local pharmacist, and a card shop to grab a birthday
card. On the way back home i popped into Morrisons to grab some
supplies, did that, walked out, and you guessed it, i walked
over the road and home. I am so used to doing that walk for
months and months i totally forgot my car was in the car park
there. Later on, i came out and saw my car was not on the
driveway and after the initial pause, went over the road and
drove it back. It was then that i saw the £100 penalty notice
for more than 2 hours.
I haven't got a ticket yet as its only been 2 days, but, that
brings me to another problem, i will not get the ticket, i just
realised that i have not transferred my Log book to my new
place, so anything in the post will get binned at my old address
by the new occupants. I would assume that these companies dont
hang about, and it will be issued quick smart.
Have i really got to pay £100 for that?
Any advice would be happily received.
#Post#: 103615--------------------------------------------------
Re: Morrisons Overstay, my fault in essecnce but really?
DIR By: b789
Date: December 22, 2025, 3:13 pm
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Right now you are stuck in a holding pattern, and that is
entirely because your V5C address is wrong.
At the moment you do not know whether a PCN has even been
issued. Do you even know know which parking company runs the
site? You do not have a PCN reference. Without those basics
there is literally nothing concrete to cancel, appeal, or
challenge. That is not being awkward, it is just reality.
People keep jumping straight to “appeal it” or “get Morrisons to
cancel it”, but that all assumes there is an actual charge in
existence and that you have the reference number. You do not.
Until you know whether a PCN exists, and who issued it, you are
guessing. Guessing achieves nothing.
The real problem here is not the overstay. The real problem is
service of documents. If a PCN is issued, it will go to the
address held by DVLA for the registered keeper. At the moment
that address is wrong, and you already know post at the old
address is being binned. That is how people end up missing the
Notice to Keeper, missing follow-ups, missing a letter of claim,
and eventually discovering a default judgment they never knew
about. That is the genuine risk you have created for yourself.
So the first and only sensible step right now is to fix the V5C
address immediately. Until that is done, you are not “dealing
with a parking charge”, you are sleepwalking into a paperwork
trap.
Mail redirection is not “too late” just because you have already
moved. You can still set it up after a move (6 months, I think).
Royal Mail send a notification letter to the old address as a
security measure, but that does not prevent redirection being
put in place and working. The whole purpose of redirection is to
catch mail while you are fixing address records elsewhere. Even
partial coverage is better than none.
Once your address situation is under control, the next step is
simply to stop guessing. Go back to the Morrisons car park and
read the signs. The signs will tell you which parking company
operates the site. That gives you a target. Only then can you
write to that operator, give them your correct address for
service, require future correspondence to be sent there, and ask
whether a PCN exists for your vehicle on that date and time and,
if so, to provide a copy and the reference number.
Only when you have a PCN reference does anything else become
possible. That is when the Morrisons cancellation form
(
HTML https://www.morrisons.com/help/form/contact-us/car-park/car-parking-charges/i-have-a-car-parking-charge)<br
/>becomes usable. That is when a Keeper appeal becomes possible.
Until then, there genuinely is sod-all you can do about the
parking charge itself, because there is nothing tangible to act
on.
So forget appeals, forget clever arguments, forget retailer
cancellation for the moment. The priority is boring but
critical: fix the V5C address and make sure post can actually
reach you. Everything else follows from that.
#Post#: 103640--------------------------------------------------
Re: Morrisons Overstay, my fault in essecnce but really?
DIR By: Dave65
Date: December 23, 2025, 4:15 am
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Have you changed the address for your driving licence ?
Two different things.
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