MET Parking McDonald’s Gatwick - validate receipt

Anything4love

Hey all! 

Hoping for some help and guidance. 

As per other members past and present, been stung by not validating my receipt at the Gatwick McDonald’s. We went through the drive thru, it was late and dark after 10pm. We had no idea that we needed to validate the receipt. Also I feel that the McDonald’s staff could at least give you a heads up on the drive thru section. Can’t say for sure, but I thought I remembered that you got a white card receipt at the barrier but I could also be remembering that wrong! 

Appealed with MET. They changed the fine from £100 to £20 (to be paid in 14 days). I’ve ignored that & will appeal to POPLA. 

I searched the newbies thread & also through the forum as it said find something similar, but everything in my instance was dated from 2018 and not sure if the legal details are still valid. 

One other thing I noticed, is the car park seemed to have updated their signage since the 2018 appeals. The signs are large - however my issue was the car park was dark & you genuinely couldn’t see them (signs aren’t backlit). 

I have written a draft if someone can cast their eye over. Would it be best to first post the MET reply & my original appeal? 

Have also emailed McDonald’s Gatwick but no reply. 

Also I replied as the registered keeper (MET acknowledged in their reply they do not yet know the driver). 

Any help appreciated! TIA 

Coupon-mad

Appeal to POPLA using similar wording used in other MET Airport POPLA Appeals.

If your search is showing you 2018 results it's because you haven't changed the results to show NEWEST. 

Anything4love

@Coupon-mad forgive me if I’m wrong, but I have changed the filter to newest first. I searched through for over 2 hours. And looked into any post that had a more vague title (ie didn’t say over stayed parking) so that I could try to find a similar scenario. 

Do you mean to say, I can still use any of these airport popla templates if it’s for overstaying the parking time limit? That didn’t seem right to me, but if I can use that then of course I shall go back to the search again. Thanks 

Anything4love

@Coupon-mad - I meant amending the wording (not actually stating that I overstayed for example) but I’m thinking more for the legality terms. This is all feeling like another language to me, so keen to understand what I am allowed to use. Thanks!