If you read the thing you scanned, it says the charge is £50 if you pay within 14 days.
Parking charge notice - pay or ignore?
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If you read the thing you scanned, it says the charge is £50 if you pay within 14 days.
Quite. I think a lot of people forget that they're leaving their cars on private land and that it does cost money to monitor and enforce parking charges. The land belongs to someone, if they don't want you dumping your car on it without paying for the privilege then they have every right to do so
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Are you sure that was a penalty charge? That's a very different thing. A parking charge is a civil matter and not worth the private firms time or money with court proceedings.
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I'm on the case
Ignore. Or name another driver in an obscure foreign country and tell them to chase them
Next time remove your plates if your going to cheese the parking. After all it's private land and you don't have to display plates
I have actually got a set of '**** OFF' plates
. Think i'll use these when i visit next.Been doing abit of reading on Pepipoo and it looks like there are plently of loopholes in how that carpark it setup so should have a resonable chance. Just need to work out how to make them relevant to my appeal.
The charge is £85, the £50 is a discount for giving up and paying early.
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I don't pay them. 99% of the time you will be good and they won't take it to court.
There's 4 or 5 areas you can appeal the ticket if you do your research.
Remember you have deadlines to submit your appeals, don't miss them. The POPLA one can be done online, but takes a couple of months to get the verdict back.
Remember you have deadlines to submit your appeals, don't miss them. The POPLA one can be done online, but takes a couple of months to get the verdict back.
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For those interested....
I have just received the following email from POPLA
Dear XXXXX
Thank you for submitting your parking charge Appeal to POPLA.
An Appeal has been opened with the reference XXXXXXX.
Premier Park have told us they do not wish to contest the Appeal. This means that your Appeal is successful and you do not need to pay the parking charge.
Yours sincerely
POPLA Team
Was it worth the many hours I spent researching and compiling my appeal, probably not but it was surprising how much I enjoyed finding the vast amounts of loopholes in the law and mistakes the car park operator make in the Parking Charge Notice they issue. In the end I had seven grounds of appeal, each one I was confident would win alone at POPLA appeal.
My advice, if you can afford to pay it and are not au fait with the Parking regulations and laws, do else you’ll spend a lot of time trawling the internet for guidance. However, I'm glad I appealed.
I have just received the following email from POPLA
Dear XXXXX
Thank you for submitting your parking charge Appeal to POPLA.
An Appeal has been opened with the reference XXXXXXX.
Premier Park have told us they do not wish to contest the Appeal. This means that your Appeal is successful and you do not need to pay the parking charge.
Yours sincerely
POPLA Team
Was it worth the many hours I spent researching and compiling my appeal, probably not but it was surprising how much I enjoyed finding the vast amounts of loopholes in the law and mistakes the car park operator make in the Parking Charge Notice they issue. In the end I had seven grounds of appeal, each one I was confident would win alone at POPLA appeal.
My advice, if you can afford to pay it and are not au fait with the Parking regulations and laws, do else you’ll spend a lot of time trawling the internet for guidance. However, I'm glad I appealed.
Well done, and I would say it is worth it, because these companies are knowingly operating outside of the legal framework that was put into place to try to make this sort of thing fair, and instead of making sure they are properly abiding by the rules, rely on scare tactics to fleece people of money they aren't entitled to.
It's a principle thing.
It's a principle thing.
Always nice to stick it to 'the man'. Well done.
I received a parking charge notice today.
Straight in the bin. If they want me to take notice they can start court proceedings.
Letter claims I can't appeal because it's been 28 days since the the notice was given on the windscreen. Address is wrong (doesn't actually exist), no indication of how they have plucked a £100 charge from, what terms of parking i supposedly agreed to (I didn't receive any consideration, so no contract is valid anyway) or what detriment was caused.
I used to previously waste my time going through an appeal process, asking for a POPLA code etc. and for what exactly?
Straight in the bin. If they want me to take notice they can start court proceedings.
Letter claims I can't appeal because it's been 28 days since the the notice was given on the windscreen. Address is wrong (doesn't actually exist), no indication of how they have plucked a £100 charge from, what terms of parking i supposedly agreed to (I didn't receive any consideration, so no contract is valid anyway) or what detriment was caused.
I used to previously waste my time going through an appeal process, asking for a POPLA code etc. and for what exactly?
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For future reference, there are no parking "laws", no judge has ever signed a parking charge into law.
They are simply demands.
Guy I know got a ticket for parking on double yellows, council sent him a "notice", he told them to **** off, 3 months later they send a roid freak to his house to demand money, he tells him to **** off too, never heard from them since. This was a couple years ago.
Parking charges are unlawful, no matter who sends them. And if everyone just ignores them, they will just stop issuing them.
Well councils (and a few other public bodies) actually have road management duties and powers of enforcement given to them by law.
Your friend probably has a CCJ against their name.
So that is complete crap.
They aren't called parking charges either, they are penalty charges.
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They can't just give you a CCJ. To get a CCJ from a parking ticket, they need to take you to court, only the courts can issue them (the clue's in the name) if you lose. However if you lose, you can still pay promptly and have the CCJ removed so it really is more of an issue of hassle unless you can't actually afford to pay it.
Council charges are different, they are entirely enforceable
That said, I do in principal agree with owners of private land being free to enforce parking restrictions, I dont think weaseling out of paying for parking is fair or decent