POPLA: Strategy and Analysis

Dublindel

Three attempts on three different tickets in the last month to go to POPLA have been prevented by Smart Parking cancelling all the tickets. The generic response is as follows. Having read your appeal and considered your comments, we have decided to cancel this charge.

It seems that Smart Parking are getting the message.

Computersaysno

trubster wrote: »

The operator says that the document must not be referred to, quoted or shared. As this matter is far from over, I am not going to share it.

Is this the same operator that said you owed them £90??


That was bollix, and so is the 'not allowed to share'.


I'm not really bothered in what's in their pack, I just don't want your ill-informed position to deter people from sharing if they want.

Computersaysno

The POPLA guys and gals must be loving the PPCs at the moment...it's either no authority, GPEOL, or PSDSU....and they take 20 seconds to adjudicate.


Do these assessors really need to be law graduates???? A YTS with a crayon could sort these out.


The copy and paste buttons on their keyboards must be getting hammered big-time.

Computersaysno

IIRC if the PPC cancels before adjudication they don't get charged the £27....so !!!!!! don't they cancel instead of letting it go all the way to an assessor???


Shows how dis-organised they are.


Still must be difficult installing effective systems when you work out of the back of a caravan.

peter_the_piper

Question. Its the BPA that gets charged for the £27 first and the ppc gets charged by the BPA, I wonder how many mischarges are made. popla were very sensible in getting the BPA to pay them as I don't think they trust the ppc's or is it just that the contract is between popla and bpa?

Computersaysno

The discussion is more interesting that the repeats ad nauseum of GPEOL, PSDSU and no authority.

bod1467

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.php?p=64941005&postcount=31

With reference to the above link, can anyone who has recently won at POPLA please check the full wording and see if "there is a line in the appeal decision which orders the PPC not to just cancel the ticket but to repay any money paid"?

AoD

Someone I helped had a POPLA decision received on 28th February. I have not seen the letter but the email I received from them stated the letter said;

"PCM have cancelled the ticket and no further charges should be paid and if any have, these will be refunded."

I think that is the only circumstance where that line is mentioned

bazster

I see Pranky is having another go at London Councils over PoPLA's bias and refusal to disclose the true admissible grounds for appeal.

I'd like to remind anyone who lives in a London borough that London Councils is ultimately owned and financed by all of London's local authorities. That means that YOU are Nick Lester's employer and YOU pay his wages, so YOU should be moaning as loudly as possible to your own councillors about this horribly-mismanaged kangaroo court being run in your name.

IamNotAllowedToUseMyName

bazster wrote: »

I see Pranky is having another go at London Councils over PoPLA's bias and refusal to disclose the true admissible grounds for appeal.

I'd like to remind anyone who lives in a London borough that London Councils is ultimately owned and financed by all of London's local authorities. That means that YOU are Nick Lester's employer and YOU pay his wages, so YOU should be moaning as loudly as possible to your own councillors about this horribly-mismanaged kangaroo court being run in your name.

I sent an email over the weekend asking what the function of the tick boxes were and if it was sufficient to tick the overcharge box to trigger the need to prove gpeol without the appellant having to express this in terms of contract law which is unreasonable to expect from a member of the public.

Might be time for another letter to my MP.