Heathrow APCOA

[ntown]

Hello,

I never received the original PCN. It must have arrived at my old address before my mail redirect kicked in.

Last Friday I received an email from APCOA inviting me to provide driver details. I will ignore it and wait for their decision on the appeal. 

I did not expect them to do anything but cancel so I thought it was worth posting.

Reminder Notice



Appeal
 

Appeal Response

[b789]

@ntown, even if you ignored it, nothing will come of it, as long as the driver is not identified. If you want to respond, I suggest the following:

Dear APCOA,

Re: Parking Charge HF17183516

Thank you for your latest template letter, which appears to have been generated without anyone troubling themselves to read, understand, or respond to the appeal.

Your letter tells me that the Parking Charge was issued to the registered keeper and that the reverse of the notice invited the keeper to provide the driver’s details. This is not an answer to the appeal. It is a restatement of your own paperwork, which I had already managed to read without assistance.

The issue is very simple. Heathrow Airport is not relevant land for the purposes of Schedule 4 of the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012. APCOA therefore has no lawful route to transfer liability from the unknown driver to the registered keeper.

Asking the keeper to identify the driver does not create keeper liability. Repeating the request does not create keeper liability. Putting the request in italics, bold, or a template letter also does not create keeper liability.

For the avoidance of any possible remaining confusion, I am the registered keeper. I am under no obligation to identify the driver and I will not be doing so.

If APCOA does not know who the driver was, that is APCOA’s evidential problem. It is not mine, and it is not solved by sending me a fishing letter dressed up as a response.

You must now either cancel the charge or issue a formal rejection with a POPLA code, where I will be happy to explain the same basic point again for the benefit of anyone else in your process who may have missed it.

No payment will be made. No driver details will be provided.

Yours faithfully,