Private parking fines

Ranksruby

Hey we have taken photos of everything how we can't get to the car parking areas any other way, statement from my client etc unfortunately though the landlord said there was nothing he could do just fight it in court if we have to. He owns my clients house as he rents but the car park is his property.  I will definitely need you guys if Popla say it cannot be disputed. Wish I had come on here before. Thanks guys

beamerguy

When you say meters, do you mean pay stations or do you mean just cameras.
The landlord can easily tell Smart to cancel. It sounds like he is on a kick back.
So you drive through this car park to another.  Are there parking restrictions where you stop to walk the dog ?   Can show show us the pictures of the signs

Umkomaas

In your appeals to both Smart and POPLA, was there any identification of the driver - like 'I drove', 'I parked' etc?

Did you use identical appeals for every ticket?

If so, could you please post up a copy of your initial appeal and your POPLA appeal for us to see what's been said and if there are any escape routes not already closed off. 

MistyZ

11 tickets .... yes you might well win in court, with this forum's help, but ideally you need them cancelled now.

You need to get up to speed with the details, start by answering all the questions you've been asked so far.   And are you the Registered Keeper of the vehicle?  Do not mention who was driving here, it would be best to go back and edit out any identification of the driver - it was 'the driver' who drove through the car park, purely and simply.

The landowner is trying it on in my opinion.  You have asked them to cancel hugely unfair parking charges and they just cannot be bothered.  If everything you say about the circumstances is accurate, they must know very well that their stinking car park is a honey trap for Smart Parking.  

Despite everything you have on your plate at the moment, please find time to write another very thorough and assertive complaint to the landlord.  Do not be impolite, tempting as it may be, but absolutely hammer home the message that the position of the car park is effectively a trap, that you risk losing a great deal of money which you can ill afford,  that it is extremely stressful for you, that you have done nothing wrong.  And also, importantly, that they do have the wherewithal to cancel the tickets and stop this nightmare now.

The best time for a landowner cancellation is before appealing to POPLA.  However I think that it is still easy for the landowner prior to a POPLA decision.  But in any case, just get writing straight away and stay strong, don't be intimidated by anyone.

Scrapit

If you have to pass through a car park to access a residential property and thus incur a charge, how do the people that live there access the property?And their guests, visitors, the milkman, tescos shoping deliveries, postman pat, interflora etc etc?

Fruitcake

I meant the landowner of the place where the PCNs were issued, not the land where the client being visited lives, if that is different.

As already asked, did you blab about the driver's identity. The dates you gave for the first PCN means the keeper cannot be held liable, so an easy win at PoPLA as long as nobody told the scammers who was driving.

nosferatu1001

Show us a map 
Show us your POPLA appeal. We've not seen them.

Ranksruby

Hey guys thank you for your replies will be back on this evening or in morning. Appeals are already at Popla but will still need advice if disputed . I should have come on here sooner the knowledge that you all know

MistyZ

We could really do with seeing the POPLA appeal Ranksruby.  It won't jeopardise anything - the more the regulars know, the better.  

I'm a shameless broken record: Landowner complaint round 2 required!!  

Coupon-mad

Ranksruby said:

Hey yes we have appealed them all separately through Smart Parking now to Popla. We got them all through the post the first one where we was allegedly parking in their space was 12th June and the notice that came through the door was dated 6th July. 

Why did you appeal before you came here?

Oh God you've admitted to driving too, haven't you?