Luton Airport PCN - APCOA

wowman

MR_MP wrote: »

Hi all,
I'm new to the forum.
I have exactly the same case as @wowman. A PCN from APCOA for alleged breach of picking up/dropping off a passenger outside a designated area at Luton airport. I've gone through the internal appeal to APCOA but I was rejected (same bulls### reply glossing over my arguments) so I am now putting together the POPLA appeal.

I have wowman's appeal letter and the assessor's decision to start from (thanks for that), but I am wondering if I should explicitly mention his case in my appeal, pointing out that it is exactly the same as mine and has been resolved in his favour. If so I'd appreciate any suggestions on how to phrase it.

Cheers
MR MP

Just copy/paste what I've used. Hell... Just copy/paste the bit about no Keeper Liability (POFA 2012) and save yourself the extra work I had to do in proof reading all of the other points I made which were completely worthless apparently to POPLA.

Or... Copy/paste everything EXCEPT the Keeper Liability and see what happens... I'm sure the community would be curious if the assessor would have ruled in my favor in case anyone accidentally gave the name of the driver away! You can't be touched with Keeper Liability. End of.

MR_MP

wowman wrote: »

Just copy/paste what I've used. Hell... Just copy/paste the bit about no Keeper Liability (POFA 2012) and save yourself the extra work I had to do in proof reading all of the other points I made which were completely worthless apparently to POPLA.

Or... Copy/paste everything EXCEPT the Keeper Liability and see what happens... I'm sure the community would be curious if the assessor would have ruled in my favor in case anyone accidentally gave the name of the driver away! You can't be touched with Keeper Liability. End of.

Thanks wowman,
I wrote you a private message. Can you please send me the details of the POPLA number, date and assessor name?

MR_MP

Hi all,
Just wanted to say that I submitted the appeal to POPLA for my case, which was exactly the same as the OP's case. This time APCOA folded without even contesting the appeal. Below is the reply from POPLA:
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[FONT=&quot]Thank you for submitting your parking charge Appeal to POPLA.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]An Appeal has been opened with the reference 0510896098.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot] APCOA Parking have told us they do not wish to contest the Appeal. This means that your Appeal is successful and you do not need to pay the parking charge.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Yours sincerely[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]POPLA Team[/FONT][FONT=&quot]
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Basically APCOA know that their operation is illegal and don't want it to be acknowledged by POPLA. I will now prepare a complaint letter to send to BPA and DVLA. I'l post it here for some feedback when I have a draft.

Thanks for sharing to OP and thanks to the community for the useful suggestions

wowman

Haha Brilliant! Great response

Looks like with me they 'tried' and hit the ground flat on their face. Bunch of T***ers.

Tbh, behind all of this, the real A***hole is Luton Airport for employing and condoning such practices & behaviours. I fearfully dread to think how much money APCOA have made

Coupon-mad

Usain_Boat wrote: »

Hi all,
What a fantastic forum with so much valuable information.

I have parked in leisure center car park which is a 3 hours maxing free parking and over a month later , I have received a PCN letter from Civil Enforcement LTD saying I have exceeded the Maximum 3 hours parking by 40 minutes and therefore I have breached their terms and conditions .

On this letter , the car park address is incorrect, they have spelled it wrong with two letter missing and I have received this letter over a month after the incident date.

I have emailed them saying I haven't parked at the car park they stated on their letter and then I have received another letter with few CCTV picture of my car.

As you would do, I have ignored their second reminder letter and now I have received a Letter Before Action stating they take me to court.

I am new to these stuff and would love to hear your view on this matter. I would like to challenge them and make other people aware of this type of scam in the future.

Any suggestion and views are welcome.

Best wishes.

Start your own thread. Oh dear. Why didn't you just appeal using the forum template (not naming the driver) and beat this at POPLA.

Ralph-y

for the avoidance of doubt ....

the new thread button can be found top left

here ...

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/forumdisplay.php?f=163&order=desc

Ralph:cool: