Supermarket car-park ticket questions...

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The Wife has just returned from a shop to tell me she's receive a Penalty Charge Notice for parking in the supermarket car-park without displaying a ticket.

Penalty Charge Notice
Issued by Control Plus on behalf of London Borough of Hillingdon
£40 if paid within 14 days.

I assume there is nothing to be done except pay, but just thought a quick post here wouldn't do any harm just-in-case.

She's got the receipt from the shop to prove she actually was shopping there and masses of previous pay-and-display vouchers from previous shops there. I assume though that none of these would be any defence as the offence is 'parked in pay and display car park without clearly displaying a valid pay and display ticker or voucher'.

Any (helpful) comments welcome before she pay's...

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Thanks for all your replies.

I believe the car park must be owned by the council because the ticket requires payment to the council. This does go against previous information I was given when I witnessed an accident in the car park and wrote in as a witness only to be told that it was a private car park and that the council had no responsibility within its bounds!

She didn't buy a ticket on this occasion, although she has many times in the past (and still had some on display). She only shopped at the supermarket and has the receipt.

Seems like on this occasion the only course of action is payment.