POPLA independence

Essingeviken

Parking-Prankster wrote: »

Nick Lester's answer, when I complained to London Councils that genuine pre-estimate of loss was not on the list of reasons for appealing on the POPLA web site was that:

"Common reasons for allowing appeals are discussed in the annual report and this is the appropriate place for that."

To be fair to him, I may have worded my complaint badly. Thanks for reminding me so that I can kick my complaint to the next level.

Meanwhile, if you feel strongly about this, you can complain to London Councils yourself, taking care to word your complaint better than I did.

You can also contact the new chair of the Independent Appeals Service, Nicola Mullany

She can be contacted either at the usual British Parking Association address or at [EMAIL="Nicola.Mullany@britishparking.co.uk"]Nicola.Mullany@britishparking.co.uk[/EMAIL]

As chair, Ms Mullany will be no doubt extremely interested in making sure that POPLA are not only truly independent but are also seen to be independent, and will therefore be keen to get up and running and address any issues bought to her attention regarding true or perceived issues of independence.

Interesting.

"Common reasons for allowing appeals are discussed in the annual report and this is the appropriate place for that."

That is a ridiculous statement.

If...as is likely....a large percentage of POPLA complaints will win because the pcn is not a genuine pre-estimate of loss, that information should be made available to people preparing their cases.

I am waiting to see whether POPLA approves my complains against the conduct of my ajudicator who seems incapable of reading their code of practice. Once that is done I will get some other letters off.

Computersaysno

POPLA is a red herring.

The PPCs are not too bothered about losing say 3000 cases a year at POPLA...as long as it [an independent appeals process] allows them to still issue [with the government's blessing] their 1 million tickets every year.

Yes it's great that we win with GPEOL everytime.....but it's currently a very minor price to pay from the PPCs pov.