Crime Solicitors

The Parking on Private Land Appeals (POPLA) Service has revealed that there has been a 12-fold increase in the number of appeals against parking tickets issued to drivers for parking on private land.

Private land car parks include parking zones at supermarkets, sports centre and motorway service areas.

The Daily Mail reports that over the last two years to March this year, more than 23,500 appeals had been lodged against parking tickets issued on private land – with more than 10,000 parking tickets cancelled as a result.

Some of the parking fines involved motorists buying a valid ticket but being accused of not having displayed it correctly.

Around 55% of parking fines issued were upheld, however – last year this amounted to 12,839 appeal cases being rejected.

POPLA has been operating since 2012 and was set up to hear parking ticket appeals relating to private land car parks in England and Wales.

POPLA says most motorists appeal because they feel that signage at private car parks is “unclear, missing or confused”.

The organisation says it receives on average at least 600 appeals every week and called the sudden rise in private land parking appeals “challenging”.

Spokesman Henry Michael Greenslade said:

“We are probably receiving as many appeals as – if not more – the Road User Charging Appeals Tribunal, the England and Wales Traffic Penalty Tribunal, the Scottish Parking Appeals Service and the Northern Ireland Traffic Penalty Tribunal combined.”

Duncan Lewis Crime Lawyers

Duncan Lewis crime lawyers can advise on charges relating to motoring offences, such as parking violations or failing to pay a parking fine, driving without a valid licence or insurance, speeding offences, motor insurance fraud, dangerous driving, DUI, failing to stop at the scene of an accident, driving a stolen vehicle or road rage incidents.

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