Parking Eye - another PCN!

baconroll_2

Hi

Apologies for another thread on this, I am helping a friend who is heavily pregnant (due to give birth in the next 2-3 weeks) who has received a Parking Charge Notice from Parking Eye.

To summise, she considerably overstayed (by a couple of hours) in a free parking car park at a shopping precinct during the evening when the car park was pretty much empty, the penalty charge was issued four days after the alleged offence in June 2013 so appears to be within the relevant timescale.
This was the first time that she has ever used this car park and she was about 34 weeks pregnant at the time.

She has done the soft appeal to Parking Eye requesting the POPLA code and I have spent various time looking at threads on here & pepipoo so am helping to formulate the POPLA appeal currently.

Should the pregnancy be mentioned in relation to the Equality Act 2010? If so any particular points to follow?

Thanks for your help.

Coupon-mad

Yes definitely mention it but forcefully; here's one I wrote where the person was delayed due to having to rest as she was getting Braxton-Hicks pains:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/61910631#Comment_61910631

...very common in late pregnancy...;)

And here's one I wrote yesterday which is about a different medical condition but is written much more strongly with legal cases to prove their 'charge' is nothing more than a worthless unenforceable and spurious penalty:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4695227

Maybe a combo of the two examples?

You can show us the draft appeal first, for extra help to prefect it. Tell your friend (when it is ready) if she copies & pastes the appeal and it's long it WILL NOT FIT in the appeal box on the POPLA website, so it will need to be emailed as an attachment (or posted if she has a hard copy POPLA appeal form). She must make sure it is all there and maybe CC her own email addy in as well if possible, so she can check the whole thing has been sent and is readable.

She only has 28 days from the rejection letter date.

Umkomaas

baconroll wrote: »

Hi

Apologies for another thread on this, I am helping a friend who is heavily pregnant (due to give birth in the next 2-3 weeks) who has received a Parking Charge Notice from Parking Eye.

To summise, she considerably overstayed (by a couple of hours) in a free parking car park at a shopping precinct during the evening when the car park was pretty much empty, the penalty charge was issued four days after the alleged offence in June 2013 so appears to be within the relevant timescale.
This was the first time that she has ever used this car park and she was about 34 weeks pregnant at the time.

She has done the soft appeal to Parking Eye requesting the POPLA code and I have spent various time looking at threads on here & pepipoo so am helping to formulate the POPLA appeal currently.

Should the pregnancy be mentioned in relation to the Equality Act 2010? If so any particular points to follow?

Thanks for your help.

Well done OP on doing prior research and moving things on yourself before posting 'Help' threads on the forum. If every new thread was this far advanced then it would provide regulars with more time to deal with things near the POPLA stage for quality, in depth advice at an important juncture.

Follow C-m's advice - you've got the very best. Keep us informed of progress