Popla

zaly

Hi,
Hoping to get some POPLA advice please. We received a PE ticket whilst parking in a retail estate car park. The free allotted time is 2 hours and we over stayed by an hour. Appealed to PE and as expected this was declined and a POPLA code sent. Just wanted some advice on the appeal.
The car park is very large and I have never seen it full even at Christmas. On the day we parked it was probably half full so I cant see how they can claim a £100 in losses. I've heard that they are issuing more court papers so feeling anxious about it but really would prefer not to give in and pay as it seems to me to be a complete scam.
Any help or advice gratefully received.

Coupon-mad

Any extenuating circumstances under the Equality Act such as elderly passenger, disabled person, someone with a long term condition, a baby being fed?

As a general guide, you need to read other threads on the forum but DO NOT word this appeal the same as before as it's not about what happened on the day.

Show us your draft please if there's time. Start by looking at the POPLA decisions thread at the top of the parking forum to see the latest 2 wins added recently.

Here are a few threads with POPLA appeals drafted and/or advice & links:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/...7#post61207207

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/...9#post60922079

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/...5#post60291735

http://forums.pepipoo.com/index.php?...st=20&start=20

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/...4557127&page=2

As you can see it's NOT a matter of sending any old soft appeal about 'what happened'. It's about challenging the very basis of the fake PCN and the status of the company to even issue it. You can do this just by copy/pasting stuff and showing us your draft you come up with, please, to make sure you've included everything.

It's a good game to find the legal or BPA breach point that will trip up your PPC - use strong legal challenge points you will see used on those threads (all started by inexperienced newbies who have learned quickly how to defeat the scammers).

Let's see what you have cobbled together form the links provided; not your appeal as before but your challenge based on those links.


HTH

zaly

Thank you so much for all the links and advice. All feeling a bit overwhelming tonight, been a long day and just about to get my little one off to sleep so will probably make a stab at this tomorrow now.
Thanks again, very grateful for your help and feedback on what I throw together would be wonderful.

kirkbyinfurnesslad_2

Zaly send me a private message with your email address and ill sort out popla appeal For you

Stroma

Kirkby is a trusted user and can help you , please do as he suggests

zaly

Sent the PM. Thank you again.

zaly

Just wanted to sa a huge public thank you to kirkbyinfurnesslad. The appeal is in and I'll keep updating as to how things progress.

stukno

Hi All,
Just to digress slightly, why is the advice different in this situation to others where the advice is to simply ignore all letters and communications from the enforcement company??
Thanks in advance
stu k
Not in the situation of being given a ticket, just like to know whats going on. A link to where to find an explanation would do.
Thanks again

kirkbyinfurnesslad_2

It just depends on the company in question

stukno

No trick question here, just that by my thinking, these these people have no legal basis for making this charge, then why would it be a good idea to go through the POPLA appeals process?

Someone mentions in one thread that the result of the appeal process is not binding.

Engaging with them in any way seems to legitamise their process. Why wouldn't it be better to ignore all communications right from the off?

regards
stu k

bargepole

stukno wrote: »

... Engaging with them in any way seems to legitamise their process. Why wouldn't it be better to ignore all communications right from the off? ...

Because many PPCs are now issuing court claims like confetti, including resurrecting old "ignored" tickets from 2 or 3 years ago.

The POPLA process, if appealed on the correct basis, will get the ticket cancelled almost every time, so this is now the advice given for most tickets.