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I exceeded my parking time with Euro car parks by 1 hour and 20 minutes and they have sent me a £60 fine. I sent them the receipt of paid parking up to 16:00 hrs with my appeal asking nicely if they could reconsider this and cancel the charge based on

  • -Partial payment being made
  • - Disproportionate charge
  • The appeal was rejected - their response below: Do you think it worth taking this further to POPLA
  • Having carefully considered the evidence provided by you we have decided to reject your appeal for
    the following reasons:
    • The car park is operated by Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR). Cameras capture
    an image of vehicles entering and leaving the car park and calculate their length of stay on
    site.
    • Signage is clear drivers must purchase a valid pay and display ticket or mobile payment
    session for the full duration of their stay.
    • A mobile parking session matching your vehicle registration was purchased for £3 - this would
    have entitled your vehicle to park for up to 4 Hours according to the clearly displayed tariff.
    • Your vehicle entered at 11:57:51 and exited at 17:20:26, a total stay of 5 hours and 23
    minutes.
    • Therefore, the pay and display ticket or a mobile parking session was not purchased for the
    length of your stay.
    • The mobile parking session purchased did not cover the date and time of parking and
    accordingly the notice has been issued correctly and will remain payable.
    • Euro Car Parks do not need to provide evidence of who was driving the vehicle, it is the
    registered keeper’s responsibility to inform of the full name and address within 28 days
    beginning with the day after the notice was given. If the full amount remains unpaid, under
    Schedule 4 of the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 (‘the Act’), Euro Car Parks have the right
    subject of the Act to recover from the keeper of the vehicle at the time it was parked so much
    of that amount which remains unpaid.
    • If you were not the driver on the day in question please provide a UK serviceable address
    with full name of the driver by filling in the form at https://www.eurocarparks.com/change-ofliability.
    Please use one of the following options below to make payment for the amount of £60.00

Comments

  • cooldude255220
    cooldude255220 Posts: 1,792 Forumite
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    Did you admit to being the driver in your appeal?

    Can you post a suitably redacted picture of the NtK?

  • Gr1pr
    Gr1pr Posts: 13,221 Forumite
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    edited 10 March at 6:39PM

    Its a £100 pcn invoice, not £60

    I doubt that its worth trying popla, not for a long overstay, a furure Money claim is easier

  • Coupon-mad
    Coupon-mad Posts: 161,180 Forumite
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    Certainly don't pay it but don't try POPLA either. Ignore it. You'll never have to pay.

    Tell the PPC if you move address.

    Open all letters promptly.

    Ignore the £170 threatograms and please don't show us. These are already in pictures in the 4th post of the NEWBIES FAQS thread.

    Come back here if you get a Claim Form. There is no risk and that is the 'end game' that you want.

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