I READ your reader’s letter with interest and sympathy (Car parking ticket misery, Letters, October 9). However, I can offer them some advice from personal experience as I also received one of these ‘tickets’ from Parking Eye at Morrisons.

Your reader has not received a summons – it is a parking charge notice which is not legally enforceable. This is made to look like an official document in order to scare the recipient into paying the so-called penalty charge. These scare tactics have made Parking Eye into a multi-million pound company.

Following extensive research on the internet, the best advice is to either ignore all the threatening letters or follow the guidance for Parking on Private Land Appeals and lodge an appeal.

You can do this yourself, although I chose to use the services of an independent company who did all the work for me for a fee of £16.

Result? Parking Eye did not contest the appeal and the parking charge notice was cancelled.

ANTHONY ADLARD Titley