Apcoa Penalty Notice , Railway carpark, England.

Gee223

Hi all,

Just wanted to thank you guys for the valuable info on here.
I followed the guide through to the POPLA appeal stage and APCOA dropped out before the appeal process even started.

Quick guide of the situation I was in.

A colleague from work borrowed my car, parked at the train station car park, paid cash for his parking and train ticket.
Couple of weeks later I get a "Penalty Notice" from APCOA, after checking the dates I spoke to my colleague and he was certain he had paid but did not have the receipt. (I believe he did pay, he is comfortable financially and generally very law-abiding)
I appealed to APCOA a couple of days before the end of the 28-day period, saying I was not driving the vehicle at the time, after a couple of weeks they returned my appeal as failed. Again I waited out the timer and sent in my POPLA appeal, stating what I suspect had happened (Likely a typo in the car reg either by my friend or by the station staff).
A week later I got an email stating APCOA had "Withdrawn my appeal" I checked the APCOA site and found "This PCN is now closed".



Hopefully that means it is all sorted,
Thanks again for the guidance!

Gr1pr

Correct, all over, file away and move on

In future, come here for better guidance before appealing to either 

Coupon-mad

Gee223 said:

Hi all,

Just wanted to thank you guys for the valuable info on here.
I followed the guide through to the POPLA appeal stage and APCOA dropped out before the appeal process even started.

Quick guide of the situation I was in.

A colleague from work borrowed my car, parked at the train station car park, paid cash for his parking and train ticket.
Couple of weeks later I get a "Penalty Notice" from APCOA, after checking the dates I spoke to my colleague and he was certain he had paid but did not have the receipt. (I believe he did pay, he is comfortable financially and generally very law-abiding)
I appealed to APCOA a couple of days before the end of the 28-day period, saying I was not driving the vehicle at the time, after a couple of weeks they returned my appeal as failed. Again I waited out the timer and sent in my POPLA appeal, stating what I suspect had happened (Likely a typo in the car reg either by my friend or by the station staff).
A week later I got an email stating APCOA had "Withdrawn my appeal" I checked the APCOA site and found "This PCN is now closed".



Hopefully that means it is all sorted,
Thanks again for the guidance!

Very good - sounds like it was a keying error.