PCN Birmingham Airport APCOA

Guys_Dad

Your first point may or may not be correct. All I know for sure is that this case was won on a breach of POFA and as long as that helps and wins, then such cases are "parking" in my book. Treating them as something else would not stop PPC's getting keeper details and using pretty October 2012 methods.

JO48

Sent E-mail of complaint, regarding out of time NTK, to Steve Clark as advised by Guy's Dad. Thanks again.

HO87

JO48 wrote: »

Sent E-mail of complaint, regarding out of time NTK, to Steve Clark as advised by Guy's Dad. Thanks again.

Good stuff but don't forget the complaint to the DVLA as well

fudgepanda

I believe Manchester Airport is pretty close to going in the same general direction. This is partly down to trying to compensate for reduced landing charges, and partly down to airports realising that parking is a revenue stream in its own right, and a very profitable one at that. The roads at Manchester are patrolled and enforced by the Police and TPCSOs. That is significant in that they are more likely to deal with drivers in a different manner as the drivers' recourse is to the Magistrates and fines are generally lower, but rising.

The Police deal with parking on the roads because of security as any unattended vehicles need to be treated as suspicious. They, and the drivers, are usually checked out on PNC which is more likely to find cars without insurance and drivers without licences than any kind of civil enforcement notice.

Unfortunately at Manchester, and I've no reason to believe it doesn't happen elsewhere, many drivers won't use a car park. Of course they don't have to, but from a personal viewpoint I can't understand why they would expect to sit at the side of the road while others can't find anywhere safe to stop and pick up or set down. Eventually, some will just stop in the middle of the road and cause a tailback inconveniencing others. A few weeks ago a car caught fire and the Fire Bobbies were called, although sadly they couldn't get to the burning taxi quickly enough due to being blocked by standing traffic. The fire was put out but the car was written off, despite the appliance getting to the terminal in about 4 minutes. The same can happen if a passenger is taken ill and an ambulance needs to attend at the terminal frontages.

At Manchester drivers are 99% (ish) responsible for their own problems and a significant amount of congestion is also down to them. There is a combination of a lack of consideration for others, selfishness and rubbish driving. It will always be busy at peak times, but the situation is exacerbated by the drivers.

The important aspect is that drivers will be the architects of their own "downfall" as they are just sleepwalking into the kind of situation often mentioned on this forum and in this thread whereby dropping off or picking up in the wrong place brings on outrageous demands for £110 or more.

I just hope when it happens at Ringway, and I'm sure it's a case of when and not if, then those drivers can utter the immortal words from Led Zeppelin: "Nobody's fault but mine"

misstt

Hi
I know this is an old thread, but I was just wondering did you use the APCOA Parking, PO BOX 1010 address found in the back of the ticket?

Many thanks
Tracey

marpol456

Pleased to hear of your result
Similar problem recently, few days left to decide the write or pay


only stopped for two minutes

pogofish

misstt wrote: »

Hi
I know this is an old thread, but I was just wondering did you use the APCOA Parking, PO BOX 1010 address found in the back of the ticket?

Many thanks
Tracey

marpol456 wrote: »

Pleased to hear of your result
Similar problem recently, few days left to decide the write or pay


only stopped for two minutes

Both of you just agreed to not to bump threads!

Please take advantage of the best current advice by starting or sticking to your own threads.

pcads

Help! Just joined MSE.. Want to start new thread as it seems that I can't add comments on this one. Same topic - fighting APCOA PCN at Birmiingham Airport.

bod1467

It seems you HAVE added comments to this thread INSTEAD of starting your own new thread. Please do so.

Coupon-mad

pcads wrote: »

Help! Just joined MSE.. Want to start new thread as it seems that I can't add comments on this one. Same topic - fighting APCOA PCN at Birmiingham Airport.

See my signature - a forum usually has a 'breadcrumb trail' link to find your way 'home' off any thread & back to page one - explained in my signature (black words not red words below). ONE CLICK AWAY. Once there, please read the sticky thread called 'NEWBIES read these FAQs first' before starting a new thread.