Group thread: Heathrow Gatwick Manchester & other Airport drop-off PCNs - easy: how to appeal & win

Paul_01

Umkomaas said:

Paul_01 said:

Another Manchester Airport APCOA invoice cancelled.

My appeal was three words - No keeper liability.

ChirpyChicken said:

Paul_01 said:

Another Manchester Airport APCOA invoice cancelled.

My appeal was three words - No keeper liability.

Love it !!

Too short. Three more words should be added .... 'G F Y' 😀

I'll remember that for next time.

A family member took a wrong turn a few months ago and drove through a chargeable zone. Confused and a little stressed, didn't appreciate that he was required to pay for this mistake - even though he didn't stop to drop off or collect. He didn't know how to deal with the inevitable invoice and so paid it. Makes you wonder how many of these are just paid.....

As a result, we are going to not pay for ten (or so) drop offs/pick ups to even up the score.

It won't make any difference to APCOA of course, but makes us feel a bit better!

Jubilee77

Good morning, I received a PCN for the drop off at Stansted. I am not the driver (my partner dropped me off and was out of the zone in 4 minutes and completely forgot to pay). Honest mistake. Do I use the text on page 1 of this thread or is there better text to use? Please advise as I would like to use the most up-to-date winning narrative. Thank you for your guidance.

ChirpyChicken

Jubilee77 said:

Good morning, I received a PCN for the drop off at Stansted. I am not the driver (my partner dropped me off and was out of the zone in 4 minutes and completely forgot to pay). Honest mistake. Do I use the text on page 1 of this thread or is there better text to use? Please advise as I would like to use the most up-to-date winning narrative. Thank you for your guidance.

Why would there be a better text to use when its the one thats posted......?
And yes you use the text given and appeal as the keeper. Not the driver. Dont bother adding any waffle

Jubilee77

ChirpyChicken said:

Jubilee77 said:

Good morning, I received a PCN for the drop off at Stansted. I am not the driver (my partner dropped me off and was out of the zone in 4 minutes and completely forgot to pay). Honest mistake. Do I use the text on page 1 of this thread or is there better text to use? Please advise as I would like to use the most up-to-date winning narrative. Thank you for your guidance.

Why would there be a better text to use when its the one thats posted......?
And yes you use the text given and appeal as the keeper. Not the driver. Dont bother adding any waffle

Thank you ChirpyChicken. Wrong use of English on my part. I was wondering if the text on page 1 is the latest up-to-date text to use for Stansted too. Thank you for confirming and I will let you now how I get on

iFlip92

So, I have a dumb and dangerous question - Are the airport car parks also covered by byelaws and not PoFA? Could this be used to just park for "free"? 

doubledotcom

Any land within the airport boundary is covered by byelaws and is therefore under statutory control and PoFA does not apply. However, as the car parks are usually barrier controlled, I am not sure how you would get to “park for free”.

ChirpyChicken

iFlip92 said:

So, I have a dumb and dangerous question - Are the airport car parks also covered by byelaws and not PoFA? Could this be used to just park for "free"? 

As above most are barrier controlled and no one would advocate people not paying the going rate intentionally
I have had clients who have on purpose tail gated and then been invoiced be the relevant firms

Jubilee77

Jubilee77 said:

ChirpyChicken said:

Jubilee77 said:

Good morning, I received a PCN for the drop off at Stansted. I am not the driver (my partner dropped me off and was out of the zone in 4 minutes and completely forgot to pay). Honest mistake. Do I use the text on page 1 of this thread or is there better text to use? Please advise as I would like to use the most up-to-date winning narrative. Thank you for your guidance.

Why would there be a better text to use when its the one thats posted......?
And yes you use the text given and appeal as the keeper. Not the driver. Dont bother adding any waffle

Thank you ChirpyChicken. Wrong use of English on my part. I was wondering if the text on page 1 is the latest up-to-date text to use for Stansted too. Thank you for confirming and I will let you now how I get on

Quick update to say I did use your wording and it worked a treat. Email and letter received to say parking charge has been cancelled. Thank you again ChirpyChicken.

marvellouspies

Hi All - I just wanted to say thanks for the advice in post 1. The keeper of the vehicle appealed using the text for the within 14 days appeal and today received a letter in the post saying the PCN cancelled. Thank you 

Coupon-mad

marvellouspies said:

Hi All - I just wanted to say thanks for the advice in post 1. The keeper of the vehicle appealed using the text for the within 14 days appeal and today received a letter in the post saying the PCN cancelled. Thank you 

Marvellous post by marvellouspies! 

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