Carparkers Appeal

Hoenir

foehammer92 said:

Does that mean everything in my first appeal was bs or?? 

Well it was BS. You paid for 3 hours and stayed over 4 hours.  

Grizebeck

Let us know what happens with your popla appeal

foehammer92

Did the no contract appeal to popla and they have come back with this asking for my response 

foehammer92

There is also a lot of pictures attached of the signage at the car park and some random letters I assume justifying the ‘contract’ they have with the landowner. Can include if needed but it’s a lot of screenshots

Gr1pr

So find anything in that evidence pack that is a problem for them, plus anything else that bolsters your Popla appeal submission, so failures by them and errors and omissions that bolster your case 

You have 6 days to copy and paste your comments into the Popla reply box

foehammer92

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but I’m here because I don’t know if I have anything to say or not

Coupon-mad

Dear POPLA,

My comments are:

- None of the (blurry) signage photos are date-stamped.  There is no evidence of which signs were, or were not, in situ in 2024.

- None of the signs in evidence show a readable term about breach.  And no readable term about £100 PCN. 

- (whatever your appeal point was about POFA, reiterate it briefly, assuming you never admitted to driving. I didn't read back).

foehammer92

Is it usual for it to take this long? Have had no response/email from popla since submitting my evidence except to confirm they received and are reviewing it

Coupon-mad

Yes, they are behind at the moment. Probably due to staff holidays. 

foehammer92

Finally got a response. Not successful.

frankly I think I got bad advice here. No continuity of advice and random people saying do different stuff. 

Popla response includes the following: 

“ I acknowledge that the appellant has made comments about the signage and the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 (PoFA) in response to the operator’s evidence. However, I cannot consider this as it is a new ground of appeal. POPLA can only consider grounds of appeal raised within the initial submission of the appeal to POPLA. The comments section is not a platform to raise new grounds, but to extend commentary on those issues already raised.”

I did try to highlight this before submitting my appeal that the help here is random and no real strategy has been provided. That I felt like a blind person taking directions from multiple people at once who won’t explain the destination. 

So I guess now it’s pay the fine or deal with debt letters for the next few years right? Gee thanks wish one of you gurus said that before I started copying and pasting things as if there was gonna be any kind of strategy behind the seemingly meaningless stuff I was advised to copy and paste