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Firstly thanks for the help.
Secondly received a reply from POPLA

The operator has contacted us and told us that they have withdrawn your appeal.

If you have already paid your parking charge, this is the reason your appeal will have been withdrawn. Unfortunately, you cannot pay your parking charge and appeal, which means that POPLA’s involvement in your appeal has ended. You will not be able to request a refund of the amount paid in order to resubmit your appeal to us.

If you have not paid your parking charge, the operator has reviewed your appeal and chosen to cancel the parking charge. As the operator has withdrawn your appeal, POPLA’s involvement has now ended and you do not need to take any further action.

Kind regards

POPLA Team

So now all I have to do is get an email from Eurocarparks stating they have cancelled their claim so I can get a refund for an admin fee from the vehicle leasing company

WIN! WIN!

Ok thx for the reply, so if I go down this route, what do you mean specifically by "Defend it".
Would this be a matter of letter writing or would these mean hiring legal council ?

Firstly great to see pepipoo still alive in some format

Euro Car parks, no display permit purchased JDW-The Francis Newton complex (Weatherspoons pub)

18/03/2025 I entered the JDW-The Francis Newton complex looking for a place to park after driving around the surrounding streets failing to find a more suitable area to park so I could attend a nearby property for a service call.
Google Map Link Street view)

The car park however was full, so I parked on the entrance road to the complex which did not have any restriction markings, e.g double yellow lines etc.
image of parking location
I was parked there for approximately 35 minutes.

2/04/2025 I later received a notification from the vehicle leasing company that they had received a Notice to Keeper for the following contravention
"No Valid Pay & Display was purchased".

I appealed to Euro Car Parks advising them that I had not used their car park, as it was full and sent them a street map view highlighting the area I had parked in
image sent to appeal of where i parked


I of course lost the appeal.
However I feel this is unjust, mainly because I did not actually park in their car park and considered the place I did park to be perfectly legal without any restrictions.
I now seem to have 2 choices.
1) Pay the fine (£45 if I pay it fairly quickly)
2) Appeal to POPLA. (Which if I lose will have to pay £75 to Euro car parks and an admin fee to the leasing company

Hopefully I have made all relevant details and documents available to those wishing to advise on my next action
Thanks in advance for any advice offered.
Following documents also attached
Notice to keeper
Appeal reply