PE fine after daughter parked whilst at Cinema

barginunter

My daughter parked my car for 3hours 1 minute at a local retail car park whilst at the cinema - the shops were all closed.
Unfortunately I must have chucked out the original letter as spam as I'd just got back from a trip to piles of post - now I have a 2nd letter which was again in a pile of post after a holiday. I've missed the payment date of 21/08.
This thread is enormous but it appears I should have sent an appeal letter immediately asking for a POPLA code
Is it too late now to do this and will I end up having to pay the fine?
This is so annoying as my daughter parked where she did cos she was worried about parking in the crowded cinema car park. I've looked and there are signs around saying 2 hours parking although I would have thought at night it wouldn't count.

halibut2209

I'd send an appeal TODAY dating it 2 days ago

HappyMJ

You didn't get a fine. Only courts issue fines. As it's not a fine it is not enforceable. You don't need to appeal through POPLA. One of the options is to ignore all correspondence and wait until the PPC issues real court papers from Northampton County Court. Until you get them you can safely ignore from now on.

Stroma

Or you could write to them and say you were not responsible for the vehicle on this day, but somebody else was and name that person as the keeper on the day. Then it resets the clock but in somebody else's name, then she can appeal to them and if rejected use popla. You can actually handle all that on her name.

You can ignore as well as long as you are aware that parking eye are issuing small claims to some people, and they have up to 6 years to do so. If you do ignore and they issue a letter before claim, please don't just ignore that I suggest then naming your daughter. But as I said don't say she is the driver keep it in the third person.

Coupon-mad

Stroma wrote: »

Or you could write to them and say you were not responsible for the vehicle on this day, but somebody else was and name that person as the keeper on the day. Then it resets the clock but in somebody else's name, then she can appeal to them and if rejected use popla. You can actually handle all that on her name.

You can ignore as well as long as you are aware that parking eye are issuing small claims to some people, and they have up to 6 years to do so. If you do ignore and they issue a letter before claim, please don't just ignore that I suggest then naming your daughter. But as I said don't say she is the driver keep it in the third person.

In bold above is the best idea IMHO as you've otherwise left yourself open to a small claim by PE now you have missed your own chance at a POPLA appeal as the registered keeper.

Sending the name & address of the driver re-sets the clock, daughter then waits (IMPORTANT!) for a postal Notice to Driver and then you handle it properly for her if she'd rather not come here to this forum. You simply then appeal in her name - once the Notice to Driver arrives at the address given - and win at POPLA for her, the driver (do tell her that we have wording that currently wins 100% of POPLA appeals).

So the thing to do NOW is to write a fairly naïve letter saying you are the registered keeper and you've been on holiday and just seen the letters, so you suggest they write to the driver since you weren't the driver on that day (state name and address, preferably another family address and not the same address they have been writing to, just looks better IMHO to give an address that's different).

If this was in England/Wales, of course.