You are required to pay a parking charge of £90 which will be reduced to £60 if paid in full within 14 days. Please note a full payment must be received within 28 days. If a payment is not received in full within 28 days further late payment charges will be added in addition to the debt due which may substantially increase the amount of the debt due.
By Post
Fill in the details on the payment slip part of the ticket and send with a crossed postal order or cheque made payable to (NPC) at: NPC, PO BOX 404, Manchester, M15 4XH
Online
You can pay online here at www.ticket-payments.co.uk go to the payment section and fill out your details.
By Phone
Please call our payment department on: 0870 847 0017
Action taken on late payments
If a full payment is not received within the 28 day period the outstanding debt will incur further late payment charges increasing the debt to a minimum of £135. If the latter payment is not received within the extended 28 day period the outstanding amount will be passed to an external debt collection agency and legal representatives respectively with the possibility of court proceedings.
Data protection act 1998:
After we have obtained the registered keepers details from the DVLA we will not disclose this information just as we will not disclose the site holder’s details to offenders.
Registered Keepers liability:
Under the Road Traffic Act 1991, the owner of a vehicle is liable for the parking charge when a Parking Charge Notice is issued to a vehicle.
The owner may or may not be the person who was actually driving at the time. If, for example, your partner, family member or colleague is driving the vehicle, this does not mean that you have stopped being the owner.
The Act says the owner is presumed to be the registered keeper. The enforcement agent will usually check with the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority in Swansea to see who the registered keeper of the vehicle was at the date the Parking Charge Notice was issued. This person will receive the Notice to Owner.
The law requires that the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority are kept informed about the current keeper. If you sell a vehicle and fail to complete the relevant part of the vehicle registration document (‘log book’) you may receive Notices to Owner arising out of actions from the new owner. In this case, you will have to produce evidence to show the precise date that you sold the vehicle. This may be an invoice or receipt (for example from a motor dealer) and a letter from your insurers setting out when you transferred cover from the vehicle. This would also apply if you said that you actually bought the vehicle after the date the Parking Charge Notice was issued.
The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency register the keeper of the vehicle. This is usually the same as the owner. However, in the case of company vehicles which are used by one person (not pool or fleet cars), it is sometimes the company and other times the employee who is registered at Swansea. An employee who has a vehicle for two or three years is probably the keeper. The Road Traffic Act 1991 also says that the owner of a vehicle shall be taken to be the person by whom the vehicle is kept. This might also apply in the case of vehicles on long-term lease but see the note on hired vehicles below.
However, ‘keeper’ does not include someone who borrows a vehicle, perhaps while the owner is on holiday. Even if someone is using the vehicle for a long period, for example, a student taking the family car away to college, they do not become the “keeper”; the person whose name is registered at the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency is still liable for the parking charges. From time to time, people leave their vehicles with a garage for repairs, perhaps for a few days or even weeks. The vehicle could be issued with a Parking Charge Notice during that time, for example if the mechanic left it on a yellow line when carrying out a road test. The law says that, in such cases, it is still the owner who is liable for the parking charge. Of course, this does not affect any rights that you may have to recover the money from the person responsible.
If a vehicle is immobilised (‘clamped’) or removed (‘towed away’) the person who pays to have the vehicle released will be the person who may appeal.
There are special rules about hire vehicles. If you hire a vehicle, you will be asked to sign (usually as part of the booking form/contract) a statement of liability for parking charges. In this case, you will be liable for any Parking Charge Notices issued to the vehicle whilst it was on hire to you although you were not the owner.
If you receive a Notice to Owner about a vehicle you did not own when the Parking Charge Notice was issued, you must correspond in writing explaining the situation. You should give the name and address of the person who you sold the car to, or bought it from, and if possible, enclose a copy of the receipt for the transaction.
