# PARKING CHARGE NOTICE APPEAL LETTER
Date: 7 May 2030
Parties: Oliver Grant and Hartwell Parking Services Limited
## 1. Purpose and parties
To Hartwell Parking Services Limited: I am the registered keeper of vehicle LK20 HWP. Your private parking charge notice HPS-90317 alleges a £100 charge at Riverside Retail Park, Bath, on 25 April 2030. This is not a council Penalty Charge Notice or a criminal fixed penalty; it is an alleged contractual charge by a private operator.
## 2. Facts, scope and terms
The vehicle entered at 10:04 and left at 10:31 while I read signs and tried to use a payment machine. The machine displayed “out of service”; a time-stamped photograph is enclosed. The entrance sign was obscured by foliage and did not clearly state the £100 term. I was not parked beyond the applicable consideration and grace period.
## 3. Process and responsibilities
I appeal as keeper without identifying the driver. Your notice arrived on 14 May, 19 days after the event, and does not appear to satisfy the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 Schedule 4 requirements for keeper liability. If you rely on a different basis, identify the driver evidence and the contractual term relied upon.
## 4. Evidence, records and safeguards
Please provide the landowner authority, contemporaneous entrance and bay-sign photographs, ANPR logs, machine-maintenance record, grace-period calculation, notice delivery evidence and the privacy basis for processing the keeper data. The enclosed receipt shows a purchase at the retailer; it does not admit a contract or liability.
## 5. Review, escalation and outcome
Cancel the charge. Alternatively, issue a valid verification code for independent appeal and keep enforcement on hold. If you are a BPA member I will use POPLA; if an IPC member I will consider the IAS route. I do not accept that ParkingEye v Beavis removes the need for clear terms and a lawful basis on these facts.
## 6. Reservations and practical protections
Please do not describe this as a council fine, threaten criminal enforcement or add unsupported debt-recovery sums. I reserve rights to challenge signage, authority, keeper liability, proportionality and data processing. This appeal is not an admission by the driver or keeper.
## 7. England and Wales law and completion
Reply by post to 2 Mill Lane, Bath BA1 2RD or email oliver.grant@example.co.uk as separate methods. England and Wales law applies. Yours faithfully, Oliver Grant, 7 May 2030.