Parking Fine from APCOA - Luton Airport

JAYLO

Hello,
I am new to this and seeking advice please.
I received a PCN today, issue notice 1/4/15, for not exiting the car at the drop off point on 19/3/15. There are pictures of me coming out and the car being driven away by the driver. The charge is £80 but reduced to £48 if paid within 14 days of the date given. Notice dated 1/4/15. Today is 10/4/2015.
Is this notice legal?
Please advise.

Jaylo:(

Redx

its a legal invoice if that is what you are asking ?

its most definitely NOT a FINE

it comes up dozens of times on here every month so plenty of previous advice you could have read

airports are not covered by POFA 2012 , so no naming the driver (they are trying to use parking charges to enforce road issues - not the same thing as you cannot park on the roads there - nor pay for roadway parking - there are bylaws for that)

now please read the NEWBIES sticky thread at the top of this forum , follow it , send the template letter as KEEPER , with free certificate of posting from the PO

(adding the pcn number , name and address of the RK - the person they sent it to)

if they dont cancel , prepare a suitable POPLA appeal from previous apcoa airport appeals and submit to popla , job done (see post #3 of the newbies thread for a link to popla examples)

DO NOT IGNORE THIS INVOICE

appeal it using the template , admit nothing , question everything

JAYLO

Thank you for your advice. Will do.

JAYLO

Forgive me, but where is the newbies stickie thread? I am new to this. Looking but cannot locate. I must be daft!

Redx

usually the second sticky thread down from the green banner , so just above your thread at the moment ( "stuck" to the top of this forum) , below the blue NEW THREAD button you used for this topic

edit

its the top thread at the moment

JAYLO

Hello Redx,

Found it finally. Thank you so much for the advice.

Jaylo

Ralph-y

there are a multitude of threads about all this

I have a small list of some ( I think it was Redx who initially listed them .... if not Ops)


http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/....php?t=5191690

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/....php?t=5132921

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/....php?t=5192051

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/....php?t=5130131

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/....php?t=5177878

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/....php?t=5180656

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/....php?t=5177198

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/....php?t=5177258

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/....php?t=5110349

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/....php?t=5171250

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/....php?t=5156653

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/....php?t=5152822

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/....php?t=5131416

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/....php?t=5149455

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/....php?t=5148343

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/....php?t=5105940

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/....php?t=5139477






Ralph:cool:

JAYLO

Hello Ralph-Y,

Thank you for the links, but most of them relate to Liverpool Airport. Do you have any for Luton airport that you can share with me. It will be greatly appreciated.
Jaylo.

Captain_Leaky

It shouldn't matter which airport - you cannot get a parking charge notice for stopping - only for parking.

If you read what has happened at other airports, you'll see a theme begin to develop, namely that the parking company cannot issue a ticket to someone who hasn't parked.

Airports, and many railway stations are covered by by-laws and are subject to such. It is pretty much not lawful to issue a parking ticket for stopping.

A by law will always trump the dubious legalities of a parking ticket, and with most by laws, the penalty will only be around £5.00 for breach, rather than the fictitious try-on of £100 by the parking company.

Read through the links provided, question the authority of the parking company to issue tickets on that land. Find out what local by laws exist and apply at Luton.

Finally, don't pay em a penny.

Redx

try these apcoa ones

I used the following search words, which anybody could have done

luton apcoa popla

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5148475

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5139391

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5116040

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5074755

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5061024

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5056733

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5149692

good info below but do noit ignore your own invoice , appeal
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5177198

so start by sending the template letter from the NEWBIES sticky thread post #1 , with free cert of posting at the PO, keep this safe

JAYLO

Hello to all who gave me advice regarding my parking charge notice. I am happy to say that I followed the advice given, used the template on the site, posted letter last week and received a favourable response today, stating - notice cancelled.

A Massive thank you to you all.

Much appreciated.