NPS Parking Charge Notice`

hardy1975

Hi All,

I'm after some advice if possible, earlier this month we received a Parking charge notice from NPS. My wife had parked in the car park but had also purchased a ticket.

We found the ticket so i thought it would be a simple case to appeal.

This morning we received their rejection letter, their grounds are that they only allow 10 minutes from entering the car park to purchase the ticket. The time lapsed from entering the car park and the time on the ticket was 21 minutes, my wife didn't know that she was actually at the right place and had no change, so the time it took to confirm it was the correct location, then get some change resulted in this delay.

If I pay by the end if this month its £60 and if I appeal with POPLA it will be £100. It just feels like bullying and is very harsh.

Does anyone know if I would any chance of winning a POPLA appeal? or would i just be better to pay the reduced fine?

Thanks
1975

The_Deep

If I pay by the end if this month its £60 and if I appeal with POPLA it will be £100.

With our help you can pay nothing. Read the stickies/FAQs and learn the rules of the game you have been co-opted into.

Also, as nine times out of ten these tickets are scams, get your MP on board.

Parliament is well aware of the MO of these private parking companies, and on 15th March 2019 a Bill was enacted to curb the excesses of these shysters. Codes of Practice are being drawn up, an independent appeals service will be set up, and access to the DVLA's date base more rigorously policed, persistent offenders denied access to the DVLA database and unable to operate.

Hopefully life will become impossible for the worst of these scammers, but until this is done you should still complain to your MP, citing the new legislation.

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2019/8/contents/enacted

Just as the clampers were finally closed down, so hopefully will many of these Private Parking Companies.

Coupon-mad

If I pay by the end if this month its £60 and if I appeal with POPLA it will be £100. It just feels like bullying and is very harsh.

That's the norm. Same for Council PCNs, have you never had one?

This is the same as all the other cases you care to read, this is nothing special, and no-one here looks at the fake discount! It is not £60. It's nothing at all. Even if a person lost at POPLA, you do realise it's not binding and you STILL don't pay?

Does anyone know if I would any chance of winning a POPLA appeal?

Yes possibly if she (assuming the POPLA code was sent to her, not you?) follows our advice that you read in NEWBIES PLEASE READ THESE FAQS FIRST where in post #3 I tell newbies all about POPLA and give templates to base a long appeal on.

The lesson to learn is NEVER EVER assume you are allowed time to 'go and get change'. You are not even allowed this at a Council PDT machine in the street, you can't just park and faff about queuing for change for the machine. In a Council PCN case this would be thrown out and she'd have to pay. Luckily, this is not a real PCN.

Luckily, POPLA have no such legal nous and might well find in her favour based on her story of the time it took at arrival to make payment, as long as she explains the queues and especially if she left the car park well before the expiry of the paid-for ticket?

I am NOT saying to appeal only on that weak point alone though, of course. And I am assuming she has already given away that she was the driver (silly error, we assume you came here too late to learn that first).

Sounds like you need to re-read the NEWBIES thread post #3.

You haven't told us what happened when you complained to the store manager on site?