I recently wrote a POPLA appeal when my husband was unfair fined for parking at Sportspace Sports centre hemel hempstead. They allow 3 hours of parking if you are using the sports centre and you have to put your car registration into a machine. DH made a mistake putting his registration into the machine. Our appeal to the parking company was refused so we went to the independent appeals proceedure POPLA and our appeal was upheld.
Our appeal was upheld on the grounds that the notice said that the "penalty was to deter abuse" and we had clear evidence that dh was a sportspace user on that day. In the appeal I said that that the charge was not genuine pre estimate of loss as neither sportspace nor civil parking solutions had incurred a financial loss through dh putting the car registration in incorrectly. A company can only claim compenstation for financial loss and not issue punishments for honest mistakes.
We have friends who have made a similar mistake and civil enforcement are turning down their intial appeal and forcing them to go to POPLA. The civil enforcement appeals process is meaningless as they seem to reject every appeal automatically with the hope that appealent won't challenge them. I know people who have paid the £60 rather than risk going to POPLA and paying £100.
I would like the landowner to be fined in the event of a sucessful POPLA appeal. It would make civil enforcement think twice about turning down an inital appeal that is fair as they would not want to annoy their customer Sportspace.
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To think that landowners should be penalised when parking companies that they have a contact with break the law
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ReallyTired · 30/10/2014 10:36
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