Reasonable if you have the nerve to pursue it

I got done at Luton airport a while back. You will lose the initial appeal and have to be prepared to take it to the govt parking ombudsman for an independent appeal. Means you will get the higher level of fine if you do lose but in many cases they drop it as soon as they realise you are prepared to take it all the way. That's what they did with me. Blanked all my initial appeals and then as soon as I went to the ombudsman and put a decent letter together they withdrew the fine.

They are supposed to give you a reasonable period of grace to decide whether to park (or to leave a car park after you've paid) before any charges kick in.

They just gamble that enough people will pay the lower level fine or be spooked by the payment demands you will receive etc. You will keep getting demands including threats of debt collectors etc so I think most people just end up paying to make it go away.

There are some very good threads on the martin Lewis money saving forums about this stuff, include templates based on successful letters/appeals that people have submitted.

Posted By: Jim on May 29th 2019 at 15:49:09

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Parking notice received (General Chat) - Azteca, May 29, 15:37:28
- Hangings too good for you (General Chat) - Jumbo1, May 29, 18:30:42
- How long were you there. You have a time to decide if you want to (General Chat) - Pixelman, May 29, 18:11:18
- Some light reading... (General Chat) - 702, May 29, 17:32:30
  - Are you TBF? (General Chat) - Jumbo1, May 29, 19:22:38
    - No, Supreme Court Judge is well above my paygrade (General Chat) - 702, May 29, 19:45:50
- if private, ignore (General Chat) - CWC, May 29, 17:23:11
  - I've always just ignored but (General Chat) - CWC, May 29, 18:57:40
    - Brillo. Thanks a lot (n/m) (General Chat) - Azteca, May 29, 19:00:07
  - Thanks. Would you even bother appealing or just go into ignore mode from the outset? (n/m) (General Chat) - Azteca, May 29, 18:51:28
- If it isn't a council car park I'd ignore it (General Chat) - maidstoneyellow, May 29, 17:17:05
- I'm going through appeal now. In 2nd stage with POPLA... (General Chat) - Worthing Yellow, May 29, 16:56:56
- do what unreliable son does - ignore it (General Chat) - Jumbo1, May 29, 16:17:04
  - I have two like that already!! (n/m) (General Chat) - Worthing Yellow, May 29, 16:57:41
  - I wonder if I'm actually your unreliable son... (n/m) (General Chat) - Bungle, May 29, 16:18:24
    - can I have my coat back? (n/m) (General Chat) - Jumbo1, May 29, 16:21:13
      - Wondered where that came from. Sorry pops. (n/m) (General Chat) - Bungle, May 29, 16:25:42
- If it's a private car park- just put a challenge in (General Chat) - inutero, May 29, 15:54:27
- Reasonable if you have the nerve to pursue it (General Chat) - Jim, May 29, 15:49:09
- If it’s a private car park rather than a public one, pretty good. (General Chat) - King, May 29, 15:49:02
  - Thanks (n/m) (General Chat) - Azteca, May 29, 18:52:22
- Minimal I think. Sorry. (n/m) (General Chat) - Saucerer, May 29, 15:48:05
- What contravention have they done you for? Presumably failing to display a valid ticket (General Chat) - 702, May 29, 15:47:51

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