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Mayfield Leisure Centre - Euro Car Parks
By: Captainships Date: January 13, 2026, 7:48 am
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Hi all,
Can I get some help with this PCN please?
Was taking children for their regular swimming session and I
must've forgotten to register the car on the ipad at reception
for free parking.
Can someone help with the appeal? I think I have a couple of
days left to do this.
Here are the images to the postal PCN:
Page 1:
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Page 2:
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Many thanks
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Re: Mayfield Leisure Centre - Euro Car Parks
By: Captainships Date: January 14, 2026, 5:11 pm
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I'm planning on appealing this PCN with the below. Please can
someone advise if this is good? I believe I need to submit this
by tomorrow.
I am writing as the registered keeper of the vehicle referenced
in the Parking Charge Notice.
I wish to appeal this charge.
The vehicle was parked at the leisure centre while it was being
used for its intended purpose: transporting children to their
regular weekly swimming session. Parking at this location is
advertised as free for leisure centre users, subject to vehicle
registration being entered on the reception iPad.
It appears that on this occasion, the driver may have
inadvertently failed to input the vehicle registration details
at reception. There was no intention to breach any parking
terms, no misuse of the car park, and no loss caused to the
landowner. The vehicle was parked for the duration of a
legitimate leisure centre visit.
I will be supplying screenshots confirming the swimming session
attended on the date and time in question in support of this
appeal.
Given that:
-the vehicle was entitled to free parking as a leisure centre
user,
-this was a genuine and regular visit, and
-any failure to register the vehicle was a simple and
unintentional oversight,
I respectfully request that this Parking Charge Notice be
cancelled.
Please note that I am appealing as the registered keeper only. I
am under no obligation to identify the driver, and I will not be
doing so.
If you choose not to cancel the charge, please provide:
-a full written rejection, and
-the relevant independent appeals code (POPLA or IAS, as
applicable),
so that the matter may be escalated accordingly.
I look forward to your confirmation that the charge has been
cancelled.
Yours faithfully,
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Re: Mayfield Leisure Centre - Euro Car Parks
By: RichardW Date: January 15, 2026, 1:53 am
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Plan A should be to ask the Leisure Centre to get it cancelled.
ECP will reject your appeal (because they always do) - I imagine
POPLA will also reject as technically the conditions weren't
complied with. There is no 'invitation to pay or name the
driver' as required under POFA, but that's a fairly thin
technicality. If you don't get it cancelled and don't pay, then
it will progress to a County Court claim - but one of the
hopeless bulk litigators will take it on and it will be fairly
easily defended.
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Re: Mayfield Leisure Centre - Euro Car Parks
By: ixxy Date: January 15, 2026, 4:16 am
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"ECP will reject your appeal (because they always do) "
Do they? You've more chance of getting an appeal granted with
the wording above than the usual attempts to argue over the fine
print of the PCN.
Contacting the Leisure centre should be your first point of
call, and quickly. If not submit that appeal, you may get lucky,
or be offered the £20 discount rate for a major keying error.
The driver's inability to follow the rules has actually cost ECP
real money to issue the PCN, people might not be very
sympathetic about that but it's a reality.
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Re: Mayfield Leisure Centre - Euro Car Parks
By: DWMB2 Date: January 15, 2026, 5:32 am
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The opening post suggests that the driver is there fairly
regularly - if so, next time they're there it would be wise to
grab some photos of the signage to show us.
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Re: Mayfield Leisure Centre - Euro Car Parks
By: Captainships Date: January 15, 2026, 6:49 am
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I can submit pictures over the weekend. Given the imminent
deadline to submit the appeal, shall we just not submit it while
trying to contact the leisure centre to get it cancelled?
Getting a response from the centre will take some time.
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Re: Mayfield Leisure Centre - Euro Car Parks
By: InterCity125 Date: January 15, 2026, 6:56 am
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I'd submit an appeal anyway as this is your access to POPLA.
Obviously, do not reveal the driver.
I'd appeal along the lines of "I am the keeper of the vehicle
and there is no legal requirement to reveal the driver. As your
NtK is not PoFA compliant there is no keeper liability so I am
unable to help you further in this matter."
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Re: Mayfield Leisure Centre - Euro Car Parks
By: Captainships Date: January 15, 2026, 7:20 am
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Thank you Intercity. Would it work against the driver if the
appeal if what I drafted above was used in addition to your
wording? Just thinking what would give a greater chance of them
cancelling it.
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