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Unfair Horizon parking ticket

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  • Coupon-mad
    Coupon-mad Posts: 161,142 Forumite
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    Examples of POPLA Appeal wording & pics are in post 3 of the NEWBIES thread.
    PRIVATE 'PCN'? DON'T PAY BUT DON'T IGNORE IT (except N.Ireland).
    CLICK at the top or bottom of any page where it says:
    Home»Motoring»Parking Tickets Fines & Parking - read the NEWBIES THREAD
  • laifi
    laifi Posts: 20 Forumite
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    Thank you for the comments. I have spent a couple of hours reading in this forum. Following @Coupon-mad 's advice I looked at post 3 in the newbies. I have typed and searched in the search box for specific cases as "horizon popla", or "parked on street ANPR" etc.

    Most examples of winning popla appeals are from the old non-compliant horizon tickets. The several popla winning appeals I read they are all very specific and each relates to a different circunstance.

    To write a plausible appeal in our case seems to require a lot of expertise which a dont have, and will be very time consuming for someone like me to read, learn, draw, etc in order to write an appeal. Thinking that the whole idea of the moneysavingexpert website site is to help people save, I would like to ask:

    Does anyone know a service that can help us write a popla appeal?

    Do you think that at this stage, having done the first appeal, the keeper can transfer liability to the driver? And would the driver be issued a notice with the discounted amount, £60 intead of £100?

    Thank you, as always very helpful your support!
  • Coupon-mad
    Coupon-mad Posts: 161,142 Forumite
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    edited 21 December 2025 at 10:52PM
    Does anyone know a service that can help us write a POPLA appeal?
    Not now. No need!

    POPLA is unimportant. I used to run such a company with a few others (including a sociopathic loony; he is long since dead so I can say that openly about the criminal scumbag as the reason I resigned) but that was 11 years ago when POPLA was better than now. And I learned not to start a business with a stranger...but I digress!

    It's not worth bothering with POPLA in most cases. I tell my relatives to avoid that stage and just defend any claim form (ten times easier, it's a fair resolution and no CCJ is risked by following our easy template advice).

    The ONLY reason to transfer liability to the driver now, would be if the driver is better at ignoring red ink (laughable) threatograms as shown in pictures in post 4 of the NEWBIES thread.

    Decide now: choose whichever of the two people won't get spooked, will check their post regularly and will happily trust us at all stages. If the more robust person is the driver then by all means the keeper can give their name and address now.

    But NOT to pay sixty quid!
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