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APCOA Fine at work :(

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  • Half_way
    Half_way Posts: 7,469 Forumite
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    From your parking policy
    "APCOA are contracted to enforce the car parking regulations that are stipulated on the information boards positioned around the campus. All challenges to these regulations should be forwarded to APCOA by following the instruction on the reverse of the enforcement notice. Enforcement notices will be issued against any vehicle in breach of the car parking regulations. The penalty for this enforcement notice is £40.00 (£25.00 if paid within 14 days)."

    Private companies, individuals etc have no lawful authority to issue fines or penalties, if that is in your work parking policy then it is even more un enforceable than if it wasn't.

    By not displaying your paid for permit how much money have the landowners lost?
    From the Plain Language Commission:

    "The BPA has surely become one of the most socially dangerous organisations in the UK"
  • CheekCheek
    CheekCheek Posts: 14 Forumite
    Ahh, I see what you are getting at. Yes this something I considered myself as I have already paid to park, so its not as if they've lost out on any money as such...

    Only concern that I have is if by signing into my parking permit contract with work would this then make it enforceable (I will check the exact wording of this tomorrow when I can look at work!)?

    Thanks again for all of your help
  • Umkomaas
    Umkomaas Posts: 43,314 Forumite
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    CheekCheek wrote: »
    Ahh, I see what you are getting at. Yes this something I considered myself as I have already paid to park, so its not as if they've lost out on any money as such...

    Only concern that I have is if by signing into my parking permit contract with work would this then make it enforceable (I will check the exact wording of this tomorrow when I can look at work!)?

    Thanks again for all of your help

    Yep, check your parking permit 'contract'. Is it a contract?

    I would be certain that it makes nothing 'enforceable' in PPC world.
    Please note, we are not a legal advice forum. I personally don't get involved in critiquing court case Defences/Witness Statements, so unable to help on that front. Please don't ask. .

    I provide only my personal opinion, it is not a legal opinion, it is simply a personal one. I am not a lawyer.

    Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; show him how to catch fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.

    Private Parking Firms - Killing the High Street
  • CheekCheek
    CheekCheek Posts: 14 Forumite
    Phew! Checked my parking contract and nothing in this relates to actual regulations on parking. Only stipulations are concerning payment via salary sacrifice.

    Going to check out the exact wording on the car park signage and will be waiting for the NTK!
  • Coupon-mad
    Coupon-mad Posts: 151,354 Forumite
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    Only stipulations are concerning payment via salary sacrifice.

    Say what? Are you referring to the yearly premium of £100 to park with a permit - not to any supposed obligation to pay any fake PCN from chancers like APCOA?!
    PRIVATE 'PCN'? DON'T PAY BUT DON'T IGNORE IT (except N.Ireland).
    CLICK at the top or bottom of any page where it says:
     Home»Motoring»Parking Tickets Fines & Parking - read the NEWBIES THREAD
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