Help please

Doodles72

Sorry I'm new to this and looking through the newbie FAQs I know I've messed up.

We received a parking notice from euro car parks and we replied/appealed in our own words which I now realise was wrong as we've implicated ourselves as drivers of the vehicle on the day in question. Our appeal to them was rejected and we now have a popla code but I'm just wondering how to proceed if we've implicated ourselves as drivers in our first appeal, which if I've understood correctly, popla will receive a copy of?

Also I think popla aren't taking any new appeals as of tomorrow due to change of hands, so we will be in limbo until October when the new company takes over. Should we try and get our appeal in quickly this evening or wait until tomorrow and see what happens with the new company?
Thank you

enfield_freddy

there is such a tailback at popla at the moment , they wont be touching it , the new lot will in several mths.


if the bevis case is resolved soon , there are 100s of cases on hold , October , think October 2016

Guys_Dad

Be sure to register your POPLA code on the POPLAR site though if you wait till after tomorrow.

Doodles72

Thank you, I won't rush to get the appeal logged before midnight then. It is pretty obvious euro car parks haven't even bothered to read our appeal letter properly as we told them we have moved house and gave them our new address but they sent the next letter to our old address again. It's only because we are having our mail forwarded that we received the second letter at all.

enfield_freddy

keep friendly with the new owners , drop some prepaid A4 envelopes off and ask them to forward mail for you , once a week or so , PPCs have habits of sending court papers to old addresses to get default CCJs


or leave your phone number and ask them to TXT you ,

Umkomaas

POPLA is transferring to The Ombudsman Service. Whether they will similarly adjudicate fairly and impartially motorists' appeals remains to be experienced.

To be fair to POPLA, they've not made a bad fist of things; however appeals marginally favour the motorists over the PPCs. Whilst finance may be the driver to jumping ship from London Councils to TOS, the possibility that PPCs don't like the fact they lose more than they win at POPLA, may be a significant contributory factor.

Whatever, we will need to see how the TOS deals with appeals a as time moves on. Anyhow, you (@OP), need to read this and act accordingly:

http://www.popla.org.uk/update.htm

Guys_Dad

The bit that concerns me is that if the adjudicators don't transfer and they probably won't relocate to Manchester then we will have a new inexperienced lot. Take a look at the first 2 pages of the POPLAR decisions sticky and how Shona and others chucked out GPEOL initially until they got a grip.

I wonder what training the new adjudicators might receive over the next few weeks. Hopefully from Mr Greens lade.

Umkomaas

I guess there will be TUPE arrangements for the existing staff (particularly long-serving ones) and there'd be no reasons (subject to premises) why the operation couldn't be carried out from a remote location, avoiding the need to physically transfer.

Interesting times ahead.