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Live cases legal advice => Private parking tickets => Topic started by: wazza123 on November 12, 2025, 10:08:41 am
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Easy one to deal with and guaranteed to be successful. Simply appeal as the Keeper with the following:
I am the registered keeper. APCOA cannot hold a registered keeper liable for any alleged contravention on land that is under statutory control. As a matter of fact and law, APCOA will be well aware that they cannot use the PoFA provisions because Heathrow Airport is not 'relevant land'.
If Heathrow Airport wanted to hold owners or keepers liable under Airport Bylaws, that would be within the landowner's gift and another matter entirely. However, not only is that not pleaded, it is also not legally possible because APCOA is not the Airport owner and your 'parking charge' is not and never attempts to be a penalty. It is created for APCOA’s own profit (as opposed to a bylaws penalty that goes to the public purse) and APCOA has relied on contract law allegations of breach against the driver only.
The registered keeper cannot be presumed or inferred to have been the driver, nor pursued under some twisted interpretation of the law of agency. Your NtK can only hold the driver liable. APCOA have no hope at POPLA, so you are urged to save us both a complete waste of time and cancel the PCN.
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Hi all,
I would appreciate your advice concerning the registered keeper receiving a parking charge from APCOA at Heathrow airport. They drop off fee was paid yet they still received a letter from APCOA in the mail. They believe it is because they accidently went to the wrong terminal and stayed there for a while first before going to the correct one making it two drop offs instead of one. Is it worth appealing with these reasons or to just use the airport byelaw template? Thanks.
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