POPLA or not

annoyed_mom

Hi

I need a bit of advice on going down the POPLA or paying my parking eye charge.
On 10/06/15 I overstayed by 52 minutes. I had met my friend for lunch and had not known of the parking restrictions, 4 hours free parking with a £100 fine after 4 hours, reduced to £60 if paid in 14 days. I appealed to parking eye and they replied with a letter stating " you have provided evidence of purchase. However, please be advised that this did not meet the discretionary criteria set by the landowner in this case, so appeal is unsuccessful.
I parked at a site which provides venues such as cinema, bowling, wetherspoons, KFC, McDonalds and Nandos. We had stayed in Nandos but this venue does not provide the keypad to put your reg in for overstaying. In fact only the cinema and bowling provide this facility. I need a bit of help in deciding what to do now. Thank you for reading.

Herzlos

It's not a fine, it's a speculative invoice.

Always appeal, as if you use the information in the newbies thread there's been (as far as I can tell) a 100% success rate in getting the whole thing cancelled.

bazster

Fabulous reply by ParkingEye! They actually admit that there is a hidden term regarding minimum spend, contrary to the Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations 1999! Please forward this response to the Parking Prankster, I'm sure he'll be interested: prankster@parking-prankster.com

You may also want to make a complaint to Trading Standards.

In the meantime, read the Newbies thread and start putting together your PoPLA appeal, and also go back to Nandos, demand to see the manager and demand (politely but firmly, and preferably in front of other customers) that he/she get this cancelled.

Northlakes

OP; To provide us with a bit of background, what is the location?

waamo

Parking Eye issued 30000 court claims last year. No that isn't a typo. Thirty thousand.

Let that sink in then ask yourself "do I feel lucky"?

POPLA kills that risk dead.

Redx

the thread title should be

POPLA ? DEFINITELY

there is no "or not" involved

bazster

waamo wrote: »

Parking Eye issued 30000 court claims last year. No that isn't a typo. Thirty thousand.

Sounds a big number but it's meaningless without context i.e. how many ignorers PE actually has.

The fact is that a PE non-payer has approximately a 1:10 chance of being on the end of a court claim.

waamo

bazster wrote: »

Sounds a big number but it's meaningless without context i.e. how many ignorers PE actually has.

The fact is that a PE non-payer has approximately a 1:10 chance of being on the end of a court claim.

Fair point but it is still a massive number of claims and if you are risk averse it's probably not one that's worth taking.

annoyed_mom

The location is Chichester Gate West Sussex a complex with cinema/eating/bowling/pub, 4 hours free parking. I need to visit the site again to see the parking signs on the entrance. I obviously had not seen them going in.
I have looked at other threads but find it really confusing ��

Northlakes

When you go back take your camera and also take with you a tape measure.

Take a photo from the nearest public highway. Measure the largest sign.

When you have that info come back.

Take a photo of the ANPR camera and note its location.

Myriddin

Ring this fellow and have a good moan at him about the terrible way they treat genuine customers. Tell him you won't be back and you'll be spreading the word to friends, relatives and work colleagues if he doesn't do something sharpish about this ridiculous parking charge:

Regional Facilities Manager Chichester Gate Leisure Park.

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