POPLA appeal for parking on a public road

jimmy102

I received a letter from UK Car Park Management this morning saying my appeal had been unsuccessful. They gave me a parking ticket for parking on the corner outside my house! Unbelievable really. At the end of the road is a private car park but they are claiming that the corner my car was parked on was an access road.

My updated letter to POPLA is (edit) now on page 3 of this thread - any feedback is appreciated.

spacey2012

Call the local trading standards and demand they investigate a Scam parking company that is writing fake parking tickets on public roads.
The police might also be interested as they as in the company directer may be committing fraud by false representation.
They have been made aware and carry on.
About as guilty as you could get IMO.

jimmy102

spacey2012 wrote: »

Call the local trading standards and demand they investigate a Scam parking company that is writing fake parking tickets on public roads.
The police might also be interested as they as in the company directer may be committing fraud by false representation.
They have been made aware and carry on.
About as guilty as you could get IMO.

The problem is that it's UK Car Parking Management, it's not a scam company and it's technically a legitimate ticket. Their argument is that the road is an access road to their private car park, but there is absolutely no signage or anything else to suggest this. It's just a road that leads to their car park.

carandbike

jimmy102 wrote: »

The problem is that it's UK Car Parking Management, it's not a scam company and it's technically a legitimate ticket. Their argument is that the road is an access road to their private car park, but there is absolutely no signage or anything else to suggest this. It's just a road that leads to their car park.

Read the newbie threads and cross reference the red parts.

Redx

the council can and will tell you if the road is public or private

if its public then UKPC will have no authority hence the reference to reporting them

if it is a private road its private land and so they can issue tickets, but they must adhere to the BPA CoP when doing so

so if its private land then appeal to popla as per the NEWBIES sticky thread

your header and post say its a public road , ukpc say its a private road, it cannot be both at the same time, its one or the other

da_rule

You need to refer to no genuine pre-estimate of loss, as set out in the Newbies sticky threat.

Redx

da_rule wrote: »

You need to refer to no genuine pre-estimate of loss, as set out in the Newbies sticky threat.

he has, in section 3 , but I would change the 3) header to include it specifically

I would also put numbered bullet points before the main body of the appeal too

jimmy102

Thank you all, appreciate it. I've got a horrible feeling I'm going to lose this

da_rule

If you use the template, which you appear to have used most of, then there is a 100% success rate.

Redx

you wont lose at popla providing you use a forum aided appeal, and you have bad signage , no contract and not a gpeol listed

the main thing to check before sending this in is with the council to see if that road is public or private in its ownership, should be easy enough to sort out with their highways dept

if there are no signs then its a slam dunk really, never mind the 3 main appeal points above

Stroma

How is it obvious its a public road? Have you got confirmation from the council on that? I am sorry but unless you have proof you should not add it to the popla appeal, a public road would not be relevant land, that is how you phrase that. But you can only go for that if you have the proof. Not that popla will go for it, they will jump on the pre estimate of loss