APCOA Parking Fine at Heathrow Terminal 5

rnoruega

Hi All,

I received a parking fine from Heathrow Terminal 5 issued by APCOA. Even though I thought I had paid for the £5 drop-off charge on Heathrow's website on the same day, it turned out that I actually paid for a pre-paid payment of £5 for my next visit (I found this out later after appealing). So it was a human error on my part. 

I decided to appeal the fine and provided them with a copy of my bank receipt and the last 4 digits of the card payment. They rejected my appeal because they couldn't find the payment on their system. Of course, because the payment which I made was towards a Pre-paid parking, this was a genuine error on my part. They then offered me to take up my appeal with POPLA, I sent my appeal to POPLA and they rejected my appeal too on the same grounds as APCOA. They have now given me the choice to pay £40, I have the receipt from Heathrow with the reference number of the pre-paid charge I can provide.

Should I pay the fine as I have lost my appeal?

Please let me know if you have any advice?


Thanks a lot

Coupon-mad

Ignore them.  

APCOA don't do anything.  If you move house within 6 years, then update that with them just to be sure you don't miss a court claim.

But they've never tried.  APCOA are benign.

You could have beaten them at POPLA if you'd come here first and not appealed as driver.  This was an easy one to win and a shame you didn't check here and use the appeal template to stop yourself saying who was driving.  

Damerel

Hi everyone. Looking for some advice. I just got home after travelling and received a parking fine from apcoa for dropping off family at terminal 5. I just typed in the details on their webpage and there is nothing there. Its been over 28 days. How do I still appeal? Thanks!

LDast

Damerel said:

Hi everyone. Looking for some advice. I just got home after travelling and received a parking fine from apcoa for dropping off family at terminal 5. I just typed in the details on their webpage and there is nothing there. Its been over 28 days. How do I still appeal? Thanks!

You should really start your own thread.  However, unlike the OP you should not blab who was driving and appeal only as the keeper with the following, verbatim:

I am the registered keeper. APCOA cannot hold a registered keeper liable for any alleged contravention on land that is under statutory control. As a matter of fact and law, APCOA will be well aware that they cannot use the PoFA provisions because Heathrow Airport is not 'relevant land'.

If Heathrow Airport’s owners wanted to hold owners or keepers liable under Airport Byelaws, that would be within the landowner's gift and another matter entirely. However, not only is that not pleaded, it is also not legally possible because APCOA is not the Airport owner and your 'parking charge' is not and never attempts to be a penalty. It is created for APCOA’s own profit (as opposed to a byelaws penalty that goes to the public purse) and APCOA has relied on contract law allegations of breach against the driver only.

The registered keeper cannot be presumed or inferred to have been the driver, nor pursued under some twisted interpretation of the law of agency. Your NTK can only hold the driver liable. APCOA have no hope at POPLA, so you are urged to save us both a complete waste of time and cancel the PCN.

Damerel

Thanks Ldast. Sorry for not starting a new thread.

How should I send them this info? There is no info on the website for the fine. Shoudl I e-mail them with the details and send the above text?

Cheers

KeithP

Please feel free to start a new thread when ever you like.