Fistral beach smart parking fine

Ivor_Pecheque

And of course, "circling isn't parking."

See Parking Prankster COS 18 (resources)

Jason1bmx

POPLA appeal submitted, fingers crossed its good news and i shall let you guys no the outcome,

thank you to everyone who help advise and point me in the right direction

Jason1bmx

Hi guys still no outcome yet, my appeal is at stage 2 of 4.. How long roughly does this normally take?

Also is had a debt collecters letter demanding £160. Shall I just ignore?

Cheers

Umkomaas

Jason1bmx wrote: »

Hi guys still no outcome yet, my appeal is at stage 2 of 4.. How long roughly does this normally take?

Also is had a debt collecters letter demanding £160. Shall I just ignore?

Cheers

POPLA takes roughly 4-6 weeks (depends on traffic). Importantly though, there should be no one chasing you for payment while you are going through the appeals stages.

Ignore DRP, but you must send a very strong complaint to both the BPA and DVLA that Smart have set their (toothless) dogs on you when the case is nowhere near decided.

Coupon-mad

Email:

aos@britishparking.co.uk

to complain that this parking firm are sending debt letters while a case is at POPLA. Send evidence (the letters and the POPLA email confirmation or screenshot of the Portal proving it's underway).

Jason1bmx

Hi guys, I've just tracked my case on the popla website and its saying it's been withdrawn at stage two. Can anyone clarify what this means and if I shall receive any formal notification that it's been withdrawn?

Thanks

CBmissy1

Hi everyone

Really new to this and very stressed had a smart parking fine for using Matalan store for 15 mins whilst my partner waited in the car and I went in to collect a click and collect order and bought other goods as well, it was a Sunday evening raining and dark and the store was almost closed really didn't realize I had to put my reg number in and get a ticket, spoke to the store and they said appeal which I did and they declined it and sent me a popla, I have put the appeal in with popla and enclosed a copy of my receipt spent in store, am waiting a reply, the fine has now gone up as it's been 14 days, spoke to Matalan again and they said to email smart parking and ask if Matalan can request the fine to be cancelled, should we just pay it, have never challenged a fine before like this. Worried about court, more fees and credit rating!!! Thanks

pogofish

CBmissy1 wrote: »

Hi everyone

Really new to this and very stressed had a smart parking fine for using Matalan store for 15 mins whilst my partner waited in the car and I went in to collect a click and collect order and bought other goods as well, it was a Sunday evening raining and dark and the store was almost closed really didn't realize I had to put my reg number in and get a ticket, spoke to the store and they said appeal which I did and they declined it and sent me a popla, I have put the appeal in with popla and enclosed a copy of my receipt spent in store, am waiting a reply, the fine has now gone up as it's been 14 days, spoke to Matalan again and they said to email smart parking and ask if Matalan can request the fine to be cancelled, should we just pay it, have never challenged a fine before like this. Worried about court, more fees and credit rating!!! Thanks

Please start your own thread.

Hijacking someone else's will very likely get you overlooked/not helped and it is against the T&Cs you agreed to as part of your signup.

Jason1bmx

Success! Smart parking have withdrawn the charge and I've won my appeal.

Thank you to everyone who pointed me in the right direction, have a happy Christmas and a good new year folks!

Coupon-mad

Jason1bmx wrote: »

Hi guys still no outcome yet, my appeal is at stage 2 of 4.. How long roughly does this normally take?

Also is had a debt collecters letter demanding £160.

Now it's all over, did you know you can now sue them for, say £250 for a DPA breach by virtue of them sharing your DVLA-obtained data against the rules (the case was at POPLA, they were not allowed to send your data to a debt collector):

http://parking-prankster.blogspot.co.uk/2016/11/smart-parking-settle-out-of-court-for.html

You would firstly need to send them a LBCCC, like here, this almost exactly matches:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/71791603#Comment_71791603

Then, if not settled, your claim would be as follows, just for a £25 punt that you claim back too:


Compensation for distress and harassment caused
by Smart Parking's misuse of personal information
obtained from the DVLA contrary to the principles
of the Data Protection Act (DPA) 1998. Specifically,
Smart Parking processed and shared my data with
a debt collector whilst the matter was under POPLA appeal,
which is a specific breach of the British Parking Association
Code of Practice and therefore a KADOE breach by the data controller.