Another Stansted APCOA query

MrMickey87

Hi all.

Daughter had a courtesy car while her car was in body shop for some work. She volunteered to run some friends to Stansted Airport so used the hire car. This was in June.
Obviously didn't see any signs regarding costs.
I have received a Parking Charge letter from APCOA Parking with the usual charge and warning etc. 3 months later.

However, The letter is addressed to my daughter but at my business address. She doesn't work for me (never has) but presume the body shop have given the hire company the wrong /incorrect address due to my business using them in the past.

If I want to appeal this what do I put as the driver details?

Or is it best to just ignore the letter completely?

Coupon-mad

Well YOU don't appeal it! It's not yours.

She appeals, as hirer. She DOES NOT talk about what happened or who was driving. 

She can also correct her address to whichever is better for her. As long as the driver is not implied, she wins easily.

Why not read the Airport Drop Off Group thread which is a silly number of pages long, full of people chewing over exactly the same appeal words even though the thread tells them that appeal works 100% of the time.

  

MrMickey87

Ok, looked through lots of airport drop off post and cant find a template for responding.
Can any link direct to the thread please

MrMickey87

Ok, having reread the original APCOA parking charge, the date of issue of charge was 08/11/2025.
The date of the alleged contravention was 17/06/2025, nearly five months prior to the Date of Issue.
Daughter has now been sent a letter from Debt Recover Plus uping the charge to £170.

I have found out that she didnt appeal the parking charge from APCOA as I told her.

So, do we ignore the DRP letter due to it showing the wrong address or do we appeal APCOA even if we are outside of the 28 days appeal?

Coupon-mad

Yes. Safe to ignore the threatograms.