Parking charge Notice received from Euro Car Parks

JAL65

Please can someone help me.

I parked in a car park monitored by Euro Car Parks. The car park was virtually empty when I arrived at 8.30pm. I parked until just before midnight. The car park serves a number of stores such as Aldi, in Stockton heath, Warrington. None of which I went into. I actually went for a meal in the nearby restaurant which has nothing to do with car park. The parking allows for 90 minutes free - there is no pay and display or ticket machine.

Anyway, I really cant afford the £50 they want (discounted from £90) if I pay early.

I actually thought that the parking terms would have ended in the evening but apparently not. I don't remember seeing any signs although I am now told by colleagues that they are there at the entrance.

I've looked and looked for guidance and am receiving mixed opinions of to completely ignore or to appeal with a letter. The letter templates I have seen confuse the hell out of me. Any guidance on the best option will be very helpful.

thanks

Stroma

No confusion here, you can ignore Euro as they never do court, but if you are in England or Wales you could appeal as there is an independent appeals called popla you can use when they reject you. So you have a choice of what you want to do. In your place I would ignore purely because its Euro.

JAL65

Stroma wrote: »

No confusion here, you can ignore Euro as they never do court, but if you are in England or Wales you could appeal as there is an independent appeals called popla you can use when they reject you. So you have a choice of what you want to do. In your place I would ignore purely because its Euro.

thanks for your prompt reply. Yes its in England. So completely ignore? Or write to the PPC asking for them to take it to popla? as some sites might suggest.

Stroma

If you are going to appeal you have to be prepared to go to popla, as no matter what you say they will reject it, use something like this




Name
Address

Date

Dear Scammers,

In regards to the invoice received with ref number xxxxxx dated xxxxxx, I deny all liability to your company, if you reject this appeal I require within 35 days a popla verification code for me to appeal independently, per the BPA Code of Practice.

I have nothing further to add, and will not respond to any correspondence from your company unless it contains the popla code. If you wish to find out why I reject all liability, pay the £27 plus vat to popla to find out

Umkomaas

I've looked and looked for guidance and am receiving mixed opinions of to completely ignore or to appeal with a letter. The letter templates I have seen confuse the hell out of me. Any guidance on the best option will be very helpful

I thought the advice we gave you on PePiPoo was pretty unequivocal in regard to ignore or appeal.

http://forums.pepipoo.com/index.php?showtopic=79398

Where have you had the 'ignore' advice from?

Coupon-mad

JAL65 wrote: »

thanks for your prompt reply. Yes its in England. So completely ignore? Or write to the PPC asking for them to take it to popla? as some sites might suggest.

'Ignore' advice is months old now - so you maybe found that just by Googling and reading threads more than a couple of months old? There are no mixed opinions really - although as Stroma says, ECP don't do Court so you 'could' still choose the old approach and ignore them like I did 5 years ago.

But, both on here and on pepipoo, if you read the first couple of pages of the current parking forum threads (not random threads about this parking company from 2012), you will find the current advice is to appeal and then win at POPLA.

To win at POPLA you need a very strong appeal at that point so you would need to read any current threads and links and see how to word that part of the appeal. Also we advise at that stage showing us your challenge, and to keep all letters and envelopes too that come with their Notices (if the date of posting is different than the date of the Notice inside). All useful for a long POPLA appeal - but there's much more than that so don't miss the points that will win it in the end, at the PPC's expense.