Operator ignored your request for your personal data

You have the right to ask any company to send you all the personal information they hold about you — this is called a Subject Access Request (SAR). They must reply within 30 calendar days. If they don't, they are breaking data protection law and you can report them to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the official watchdog. Sending a SAR is also useful because it forces the operator to hand over all their evidence and internal notes, which often reveals mistakes, missing evidence, or other problems with your ticket.

Legal basis

UK GDPR Article 15; Data Protection Act 2018 s.45; Information Commissioner's Office enforcement

How to identify this in your case

Always file a SAR as early as possible in any parking dispute. Send to the operator's Data Protection Officer (identifiable from their privacy notice / ICO register). Include your name, address, vehicle registration, and PCN reference. Set a calendar reminder for 30 days.

Sample appeal wording

Before you send this

Deadline. A late submission can be turned down without your argument being read. Check your notice for the deadline and how it is counted.
Paying may end it. Paying can count as accepting the notice and can close a challenge already under way. Part-paying or acknowledging an old debt can also revive a time limit that had expired.
The amount can change. Check what happens to the sum if you challenge — it may be held, re-offered lower, or keep rising, and fees or enforcement can continue meanwhile.
Use the official route. Use the method, recipient and form your notice specifies, with any reference, evidence and signature it asks for. Sent elsewhere, it may not count.
Only say what is true. Do not copy any statement of fact unless it is true for you, and check the legal point still applies. Delete what does not fit. It may be treated as your statement.
Careful what you volunteer. Avoid unnecessary admissions — naming the driver or accepting responsibility can remove arguments. But answer anything you are legally required to answer, and do include the evidence your ground needs.
Keep the record. Keep what you sent, the attachments, any receipt, and the reply. Note the next deadline.

Sample wording to adapt and send yourself — it may not fit your notice or the stage you are at. Replace the bracketed prompts with your own details; leave any case citation as it is.

TO: [Data Protection Officer / Legal Department] SUBJECT ACCESS REQUEST Dear Data Controller, Re: Subject Access Request under UK GDPR Article 15 I formally request copies of all personal data you hold relating to me in connection with: - Vehicle registration: [REG] - PCN/charge reference: [NUMBER] - Date of alleged contravention: [DATE] My full name is [NAME] and my address is [ADDRESS]. Please provide, within 30 days: 1. All CCTV/ANPR images and footage relating to my vehicle 2. All internal notes, correspondence, and records relating to this PCN 3. All data obtained from the DVLA, including the date of request and KADOE contract reference 4. The identity of all third parties to whom my data has been provided Failure to respond within 30 days will result in a complaint to the Information Commissioner's Office. Yours faithfully, [NAME] [DATE]

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Sources

UK GDPR Article 15
Data Protection Act 2018 s.45
https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/getting-copies-of-your-information-subject-access-request/