Ticket Issued Within 10-Minute Grace Period
Since October 2024, private car parks must give you at least 10 minutes after your paid time runs out — or after you arrive at a site with a time limit — before they can issue a ticket. If they ticketed you within that 10-minute window, they have broken the rules and the ticket should not stand.
Legal basis
Private Parking Code of Practice 2024 (Single Code), Section 11.1 - mandatory 10-minute grace period requirement.
How to identify this in your case
Compare the time your paid period expired (or you arrived) with the time the PCN was issued. If the difference is less than 10 minutes, the grace period was violated.
Sample appeal wording
According to the PCN, the contravention was recorded at [TIME]. My parking session expired at [TIME]. This is a difference of only [X] minutes. The Private Parking Code of Practice 2024 mandates a minimum 10-minute grace period before any parking charge can be issued (Section 11.1). The operator has violated this mandatory requirement. As a member of [IPC/BPA], the operator is contractually obligated to comply with this Code. This PCN should be cancelled.
Replace [PARKING DATE], [NtK DATE] etc. with your own dates before sending.
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- Private Parking Code of Practice 2024
- https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/private-parking-code-of-practice
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