Parking Ticket for accidentally overstaying

MistyZ

Sending the blue template appeal is a bit of a formality, I guess there's an outside chance that it could prove successful, but the main reason is to get the code you need to proceed to the POPLA appeal stage if and when the first line of appeal is refused.

If you've appealed successfully before regarding this particular car park, you might well be able to do so again. I doubt that a moral justification for an overstay is required, but anyway, these days it's very difficult indeed to calculate the amount of time required for NHS appointment when parking. Meanwhile, the car park scammers reap the benefits. That can't be an appeal point, but if you're going to fight this it helps if you genuinely recognise the injustice of these charges.

I'd recommend editing your original post to remove 'I' and 'my' and identify only as 'the keeper' as per the blue template.

KeithP

ITGuy90 wrote: »

No need for that.

OK. Good luck.

Guys_Dad

Maybe the hospital PALS may intervene.

POPLA deals with "the contract" between the driver/RK and the PPC. They don't deal with mitigation. What your case is depends upon mitigation.

However, the hospital trust has implemented a parking regime that fails to deal with unexpected problems that arise with out patients and the additional time that can arise with medical staff dealing with other patients or complications.

The only reasonable system to cope with this is pay on leaving rather than a lay person, such as you, having to apply knowledge about the medical situation and potential queues at the hospital out patients.

A court may be sympathetic.

fisherjim

ITGuy90 wrote: »

No need for that. I just don't want to make a mistake!

Don't alienate your friends on here that know what they are talking about.

If you can't take some straight talking help, you won't like the onslaught you will face from PPC's and their scummy lying cohorts!

ITGuy90

No letters yet *shrug*

The_Deep

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 in the house as have Gladstones Solicitors, and BW Legal, (these two law firms take hundreds of these cases to court each week, hospital car parks and residential complex tickets have been especially mentioned. They lose most of them, and have been reported to the regulatory authority by an
M.P. for unprofessional conduct

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

ITGuy90

The_Deep wrote: »

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 in the house as have Gladstones Solicitors, and BW Legal, (these two law firms take hundreds of these cases to court each week, hospital car parks and residential complex tickets have been especially mentioned. They lose most of them, and have been reported to the regulatory authority by an
M.P. for unprofessional conduct

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

I'm just at work at the moment but I'll look as soon as I get home!


Is there a draft for writing to the MP aswell?

Coupon-mad

No, templates are the work of the devil if you want to pen a complaint. This is not Resolver, and Resolver is useless at this subject...!

ITGuy90

No letters yet until today with a "final notification" with a 28 day time limit on it to pay £100.


I've not even received a POPLA number from my first appeal. What should I do?

KeithP

What did your Member of Parliament have to say?