"We're able to send them back with changed lives.

However, she said this "caused more harm than it did good", because some people still received PCNs after entering their details."Now they thought we were cooperating with Excel and we didn't want to help them so it reflected even worse on us," she said.

She said the tablet had since been removed, and Jumpin Fun instead warns customers about the car park with signs in reception, as well as on its website and in booking confirmation emails.Derek Millard-Smith, a specialist lawyer in the UK parking sector, says parking on private land is generally governed by contract law."By entering that land and seeing the signage and parking there, you are deemed to have agreed to those terms, and if you then fail to adhere to those terms you can be issued with a Parking Charge Notice," he said.

Mr Millard-Smith said PCNs were "a contractual debt", which could ultimately be pursued through the civil courts and result in a County Court Judgement, which can affect your credit rating.In relation to Miss Hudson's PCNs, he said: "I don't know what the signage says in relation to payment, but of course, if it's impossible to pay within that time then that might not be enforceable, so you would then need to consider the evidence as to whether or not it was possible to pay within that time."

He urged anyone who believes they have wrongly received a PCN to appeal against it, either through POPLA or the Independent Appeals Service (IAS).

POPLA is the appeals service for PCNs which have been issued by car park operators, which are members of the British Parking Association (BPA).If you have the stomach for it, you can climb the narrow crumbling stone spiral staircase to reach the roof of St Nicholas' Church in Rodmersham.

From the top of the Norman church you get a panoramic view of north Kent. Directly below there is an apple orchard, beyond that fields of arable farmland with the occasional house, and in the distance the town of Sittingbourne, silhouettes of Thames Estuary heavy industry visible against the sky.This is the land where Quinn Estates developers want to build 8,400 homes, new schools and a new road.

"It's an absolutely colossal development, it will have a devastating impact on this area," says Monique Bonney.She grew up in Rodmersham and after living and working across the world returned to the village. She got married in St Nicholas' Church and has been an independent councillor for the area for 18 years.