Please can you offer some advice? We have recently been sent a "Parking Charge Notice". The Notice shows my wife's registered vehicle entering and leaving a MacDonald’s car park at Bell Lane London Colney, which is junction 21a off the M25 in Hertfordshire on 02/04/10, a not so Good Friday. We are being charged £50 for overstaying the 75minute limit, Actual stay 121 minutes. Payable within 14 days otherwise rising to £100. My deadline is the 23/04/10 but the letter only arrived on the 16/04/10, dated charge notice date 09/04/10, but two weeks after the "contravention date" of 02/04/10. So effectively I have only one week to stress and pay up. The circumstances were that we met with friends for a kids party (not officially booked) and get together at a mutual convenient meeting point. The site is quite inaccessible and we had to wait to get a space in the car park. Our defence is that the notices were not clearly visible, otherwise, had we known of such a draconian agreement between MacDonalds and MET we would never have used this restaurant. It would have been better to go to the large Sainsburys & M&S retail site across the road.