PPS & UPCPS > Parking in 'No Parking Area' [SUCCESSFULLY CANCELLED]

PureVessel

Hi all,

Me again- yes, I've been getting very unlucky with parking charges recently!

Moved to a new flat, asked the front desk team whether I can park around the building whilst moving between places and got told it's totally fine round the back. Parked behind the building and noticed a LOT (talking 5+) of "NO PARKING" signs. Front desk team again confirmed it will be fine. Spent the evening and next morning unpacking and now hit with a parking fine.

Have emailed the front desk team an obvious complaint and requesting them to contact the landowner to get the PCN cancelled. Have also submitted an appeal online (as keeper) using the usual blue text template on the NEWBIES thread (don't have time to wait for a reply from landowner as travelling with work next few days/weeks).

Attached a photo of the PCN for ref > only thing I'll flag is despite the picture not showing the signs, there is 100% sufficient signage in the area and don't believe I could get away arguing that point. Any advice on the next POPLA appeal in this specific case or just follow usual newbies thread guidance? Hoping the landowner just cancels tbh but let's see...

Thanks for all the help across all my posts.

PureVessel

UPDATE > surprisingly the front desk team have already said they will contact the landowner/management team in the morning and try and get it cancelled as soon as possible. I won't hold my breath but at least they have already acknowledged it

Coupon-mad

PureVessel said:

UPDATE > surprisingly the front desk team have already said they will contact the landowner/management team in the morning and try and get it cancelled as soon as possible. I won't hold my breath but at least they have already acknowledged it

Great!

I was going to suggest you either:

- just ignore PPS (London) or

- appeal saying that signs saying 'NO PARKING' offer no contract.

Le_Kirk

...... and of course it wasn't parking it was loading/unloading!  See Jopson v Homeguard.

PureVessel

Hi all- I actually received TWO different fines from TWO different building firms in the area (one from PPS as per above screenshot and another from UKCPS- attached photo if useful). BOTH have now been successfully cancelled by the landowner I appealed both with the following template to their service desks, and then afterwards it was escalated to their management.

Feel free to use the template below if anybody thinks useful! I have also attached the proof of cancellation below.

I have recently moved into the XXX building and was spending the w/c.18th Aug moving items between the two flats and unpacking for the majority of the days.

When arriving I was informed by the front-desk that there would be no risk of a parking charge round the back of the building- I asked multiple times/people but everybody said it would be fine/the same thing.

I parked there on both the 20th Aug (in and out during the day) and also the 21st Aug (early morning). I have now been issued with a parking fine for 21st Aug for £100. 

Please can you help contact the landowner to cancel this parking charge- there are tens (to hundreds) of thousands of examples where the landowner can very easily cancel parking charges online/

This is really not an ideal start to living in the building and I don't want this to spoil my impression of XXX.

This can be a very simple process of getting it cancelled by the landowner- please let me know if they require anything beyond the parking charge number and details?