APCOA fine at Newton Abbot Station

charlie2323

Hi All, does anyone know if the land used for parking at Newton Abbot station is covered by bye laws? If so I can use that defence, I hope?

waamo

What does the NtK say? There is no harm in asking them the basis for the charge.

charlie2323

Thanks for your reply. The NTK is a 'standard' APCOA one. It doesn't mention bye laws just breach of terms. I asked the question as there seems to be two types of appeal. One about lack of signage etc.. the other about not 'relevant land' as defined by POFA 2012. I am not sure which to use?

twhitehousescat

does the NTK state that they are relying on POFa 2012 or not ?

charlie2323

No it doesn't mention POFa 2012. I only found about it by reading other threads.

The_Deep

They usually cave in at PoPLA a if you raise bye-laws.

This is an entirely unregulated industry which is scamming the public with inflated claims for minor breaches of contracts for alleged parking offences, aided and abetted by a handful of low-rent solicitors.

Parking Eye, CPM, Smart, and another company have already been named and shamed, as has Gladstones Solicitors, and BW Legal, (these two law firms take hundreds of these cases to court each year). They lose most of them, and have been reported to the regulatory authority by an M.P. for unprofessional conduct

Hospital car parks and residential complex tickets have been especially mentioned.

The problem has become so rampant that MPs have agreed to enact a Bill to regulate these scammers. Watch the video of the Second Reading in the HofC recently.

http://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/2f0384f2-eba5-4fff-ab07-cf24b6a22918?in=12:49:41

and complain in the most robust terms to your MP. With a fair wind they will be out of business by Christmas.

waamo

Send the appeal template in the Newbies thread. It's located at the top of this board and tells Newbies to read it first

Handbags-at-dawn

The list of Great Western Railway car parks is here (click on the down arrow where it says "car parking rates') :-
https://www.gwr.com/plan-journey/stations-and-routes/car-parking
So it looks like it's subject to the Railway Byelaws

Redx

I would always "assume" that stations are non-relevant land and subject to bylaws unless there was overwhelming evidence to the contrary, even with METROLINK here in manchester


apcoa have failed on many occasions at victoria station , possibly others , as have CAREPARKING (ANCHOR) at metrolink


so any BLAH BLAH station should be treated as the same, especially where no POFA2012 paragraphs are on an NTK