Royal Stoke Hospital & APCOA

Coupon-mad

Therefore would I be correct in thinking that only the last one was issued within the correct time period.

Yes.

Therefore it is imperative that the registered keeper appeals without saying who was driving. Get her to tell her friends this as well, it is important and will win a case at POPLA stage on the basis of 'no keeper liablity'. An admitted driver cannot even use that appeal point!

If you have to post the appeals you could put them all in one envelope and take a photo or short video on her phone, of them going into that envelope as proof (why not, just in case they pretend there was only one appeal in there). Or do one appeal with all 4 PCNs written at the top, print it out and keep a copy.

Get a free certificate of posting from the Post Office, don't just fling it into a postbox. Keep the cert of posting until she gets her response in a month and if she doesn't hear by day 35 after they would have got the appeals, she should then email the BPA to complain (to make sure she gets the 4 POPLA codes).

Come back when she has 4 x POPLA codes with her rejection letters. They are NORMAL, cases are not normally cancelled early doors but are winnable at POPLA. Of course she has a case to appeal, everyone does, everyone here is likely to win at POPLA. Don't feel that students have previously 'got away with it' and that she has a 'problem' here with APCOA. They are easy to beat!

If anyone is 'getting away with it' than it's APCOA getting away with murder at the expense of the lovely students.

Just to check, these are 'parking charge notices' not Council 'PENALTY charges' that happen to be isued by APCOA as an agent? You can tell from the letters, if POPLA is offered then they are private ones as we've been discussing.

glenaturner

Hi all,
Just like to say thank you for all your helpful advice, i have now written 4 separate appeals and will send them off to APCOA and then look forward to the rejection letters.

Ralph-y

well done .... keep going ...

has this info been passed onto all the others caught out?

could make an awful amount of work for APCOA

Ralph:cool:

ric3vic

Especially check the signage. I believe that some of the signs on this site are (or were) nonsensical.

GingerBob_3

I understand APCOA never chance their arm in court, so is there any point in wasting time communicating with them? Just ignore, surely. Or if you really want to, go out with a shovel, scoop up the nearest lump of 'you know what' in the street and send it to them by special delivery.

Coupon-mad

GingerBob wrote: »

I understand ParkingEye never chance their arm in court, so is there any point in wasting time communicating with them? Just ignore, surely.

Imagine if we go back to the end of 2012 and we'd have seen posts like the above. We'd have agreed, but things can change and that's the danger.

Sorry for editing your post - I know you didn't put 'ParkingEye'. Just showing the danger of posting like this telling people they can ignore these when in fact, APCOA are dead easy to see off at POPLA.

APCOA are not small fry either, they are a large company with Council contracts so maybe some ambitions - and like PE, could turn at any time into a pariah of a litigious firm.

glenaturner

Hi Folks,
I have finally received the first rejection letter, with it is the POPLA code and also the offer to pay a discounted price of £25.00 rather than the original £50.00, I found this a bit odd if APCOA have to pay £25.00 for a POPLA code it does not seem to add up. Anyhow I thought I would appeal on the grounds that the PCN was received a full 73 days after the issuing of the ticket, way outside the time limit as per schedule 4.
Do you lovely people think that this point alone is enough to win an appeal or do I need more, any advice would be gratefully received.
One other point is that APCOA thanked me for my letter received 11th February even though I have proof of postage from 1st Feb, They really are not very good with their dates and timings are they.
Hope you can help.

Redx

apcoa are useless, simple as that

now you have your popla code, check it is valid and its expiry date on the parking cowboys website

then put together a popla appeal based on half a dozen key factors including POFA2012 failures, NTK flaws , no contract with landowner , poor signage , not a gpeol but based on RECENT examples since the beavis case late last year which changed matters somewhat

I did mention most of this in post #7

I would NOT go for a single point appeal when there is no need to