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Advice Please on Failure to Pay for the Duration of Stay
AshNaz
Posts: 7 Forumite
Hello all,
Newbie here on MSE. I would appreciate it if any of you could be of any assistance.
As the registered keeper of the vehicle, my car was parked in a car park operated by Local Parking Security, where the first 30 minutes is free. The location was the Premier Inn Hotel on Bath Road, near Heathrow. The car also overstayed by almost three hours.
I have appealed the Parking Charge Notice and they have rejected it. I now have to take my case to POPLA. I find the discounted £50 they are asking to be excessive and am curious if such companies accept a gesture of goodwill payment.
I will now attempt to upload the emails and original parking fine letter.
Thank you
Newbie here on MSE. I would appreciate it if any of you could be of any assistance.
As the registered keeper of the vehicle, my car was parked in a car park operated by Local Parking Security, where the first 30 minutes is free. The location was the Premier Inn Hotel on Bath Road, near Heathrow. The car also overstayed by almost three hours.
I have appealed the Parking Charge Notice and they have rejected it. I now have to take my case to POPLA. I find the discounted £50 they are asking to be excessive and am curious if such companies accept a gesture of goodwill payment.
I will now attempt to upload the emails and original parking fine letter.
Thank you
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Did the driver have a legitimate reason for being there that long?
If so, it would be a good idea to ask the hotel to cancel the invoice.0 -
.....am curious if such companies accept a gesture of goodwill payment.:)
No very unlikely unless they are in the wrong, these are greedy incentivised scammers you are dealing with not nice benevolent businesses!
How on earth did you fail to realise this is a pay and display car park, you just can't near any airport site for three hours for free!0 -
The driver didn't have a legitimate reason to stay that long per se.
The keeper has received a Parking Charge Notice and not a Notice to Keeper (NTK). Should an NTK be sent first or is it sent when the payment has not been made after a certain period?0 -
The driver didn't have a legitimate reason to stay that long per se.
The keeper has received a Parking Charge Notice and not a Notice to Keeper (NTK). Should an NTK be sent first or is it sent when the payment has not been made after a certain period?
When you say ‘Parking Charge Notice’, was that placed on the windscreen, or received via post?Please note, we are not a legal advice forum. I personally don't get involved in critiquing court case Defences/Witness Statements, so unable to help on that front. Please don't ask. .
I provide only my personal opinion, it is not a legal opinion, it is simply a personal one. I am not a lawyer.
Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; show him how to catch fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.Private Parking Firms - Killing the High Street0 -
When you say ‘Parking Charge Notice’, was that placed on the windscreen, or received via post?
It was sent through the post.0 -
That letter will be a NTK
Read up in the newbies faq thread near the top of the page on POPLA appeals
Construct your appeal and put it up here for comments (You cannot use "the charge is too much" as your appeal!)0 -
Will do, thank you @Quentin.
Do you think it is worth appealing? Tonight is the deadline and as I am not sure whether to go ahead or not, it would be reassuring to know if similar appeals have been successful.0 -
POPLA is your last chance to kill it off.Will do, thank you @Quentin.
Do you think it is worth appealing? Tonight is the deadline and as I am not sure whether to go ahead or not, it would be reassuring to know if similar appeals have been successful.
So don't waste it
Otherwise you face 6 years of harassing from debt collectors (ignore them) or a court claim during those 6 years which will take up more time and effort to deal with0 -
Don't you get 28 days to submit a POPLA appeal?
Yes, but tonight is the deadline before the discounted price ends.
I have another two weeks to go to submit an appeal to POPLA.
So, would you advise me to forego the discounted rate and appeal to POPLA?0
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