06-12-2026, 09:31 AM
Welcome to the forum @samh47. The Parking Charge Notice (PCN) you have shown which was issued as a postal Notice to Keeper (NtK) and clearly states on it that it is "non-PoFA" is a "Golden Ticket", as long as the driver is not identified.
What that means is that they cannot rely on the provisions of PoFA to hold the Keeper liable if the driver is unknown. The biggest mistake most recipients of these PCNs make is to identify the driver by using language in their initial appeal such as "I did this or that" instead of responding only as the Keeper and appealing in the third person with language such as "the driver did this or that".
As this is simply a speculative invoice from an unregulated private parking firm for an alleged breach of contract by the driver, only the driver can be liable, if they know who that it. All they have for now, is the Keepers identification. There is no legal obligation on the Keeper to identify the driver to a private firm. The ONLY way UKCPS can identify the actual driver is if the Keeper tells them who was driving, inadvertently or otherwise. In other words... "don't tell 'em your name Pike"!
Whilst they will not admit it, and they will try and intimidate you into paying with false threats of escalation, debt recovery and even a county court claim, as long as you follow the advice here and understand that they have nowhere to go with this, as long as the driver is not identified, there is nothing they can do about it, especially if they try to take this all the way to a court claim. The law simply does not allow them to simply assume or infer that the Keeper must be the driver. PoFA places strict requirements on private parking firms if they want to be able to hold the Keeper liable if the driver remains unidentified. As already explained, they are not relying on PoFA and even if they wanted to, they would have had to issue the NtK so that it was deemed delivered within 14 days of the alleged contravention:
Date of alleged contravention: Tue, 26 May 2026
Date NtK was issued/posted: Tue, 09 Jun 2026
Deemed date of delivery (2 working days): Thu, 11 Jun 2026
16 days elapsed
Given (delivered) 2 days too late.
So, I suggest you submit the following initial appeal:
Come back when the scammers reject the appeal and we can then deal with the corrupt IAS kangaroo court that is the secondary appeal.
What that means is that they cannot rely on the provisions of PoFA to hold the Keeper liable if the driver is unknown. The biggest mistake most recipients of these PCNs make is to identify the driver by using language in their initial appeal such as "I did this or that" instead of responding only as the Keeper and appealing in the third person with language such as "the driver did this or that".
As this is simply a speculative invoice from an unregulated private parking firm for an alleged breach of contract by the driver, only the driver can be liable, if they know who that it. All they have for now, is the Keepers identification. There is no legal obligation on the Keeper to identify the driver to a private firm. The ONLY way UKCPS can identify the actual driver is if the Keeper tells them who was driving, inadvertently or otherwise. In other words... "don't tell 'em your name Pike"!
Whilst they will not admit it, and they will try and intimidate you into paying with false threats of escalation, debt recovery and even a county court claim, as long as you follow the advice here and understand that they have nowhere to go with this, as long as the driver is not identified, there is nothing they can do about it, especially if they try to take this all the way to a court claim. The law simply does not allow them to simply assume or infer that the Keeper must be the driver. PoFA places strict requirements on private parking firms if they want to be able to hold the Keeper liable if the driver remains unidentified. As already explained, they are not relying on PoFA and even if they wanted to, they would have had to issue the NtK so that it was deemed delivered within 14 days of the alleged contravention:
Date of alleged contravention: Tue, 26 May 2026
Date NtK was issued/posted: Tue, 09 Jun 2026
Deemed date of delivery (2 working days): Thu, 11 Jun 2026
16 days elapsed
Given (delivered) 2 days too late.
So, I suggest you submit the following initial appeal:
Quote:Parking Charge Reference: [insert]
Vehicle Registration: [insert]
I am the registered keeper. UKCPS cannot hold a registered keeper liable for any alleged contravention where it has not used, and cannot use, the keeper liability provisions in Schedule 4 of the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012.
As a matter of fact and law, UKCPS will be well aware that it has not created keeper liability. Your own Notice to Keeper expressly states that it is a “Postal – Non POFA” notice. The alleged event was on 26/05/2026, the notice is dated 09/06/2026, and your own notice states that it is deemed given on the second working day after sending. Even if UKCPS had attempted to rely on PoFA, which it has not, the notice was not given within the statutory period required for keeper liability.
If UKCPS wanted to hold a registered keeper liable, that was within UKCPS’s gift: issue a fully compliant PoFA notice, in time. UKCPS did not do so. Instead, UKCPS has issued a self-confessed non-PoFA notice alleging a contractual charge against the driver only, then dressed it up as an invitation to the keeper to supply the one piece of evidence UKCPS does not have.
The registered keeper cannot be presumed or inferred to have been the driver, nor pursued under some twisted interpretation of the law of agency. Your NtK can only hold the driver liable. The driver has not been identified and will not be identified.
UKCPS has no lawful route to keeper liability. You are therefore urged to save us both a complete waste of time and cancel the PCN.
Come back when the scammers reject the appeal and we can then deal with the corrupt IAS kangaroo court that is the secondary appeal.
Never argue with stupid people. They will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience. - Mark Twain
