OP, to start with I suggest you amend your earliest posts which state who was driving.
Next, I suggest you approach this by looking at their evidence and then demolishing it rather than launching into your own points. They have to prove, you don't have to disprove.
I suggest you start by focusing on their rejection of your 'appeal', in particular para. 3 in which they:
Accept that motorists are entitled to a consideration period of 5 minutes;
Accept that the car was not parked for 5 minutes.
However, the operator claims to be able to disapply and disregard this legal principle and mandatory element of the Code of Practice on the basis that 'by law parking on the footpath is forbidden'.
I submit that whether criminal law prohibits parking on a footpath or not has no relevance in a civil contract or bearing on their Code of Practice duty to give objective and unbiased consideration to an 'appeal'.
The operator cannot have it both ways i.e. to rely upon a civil contract on PRIVATE land and then disregard a legal and Code of Practice defence(which otherwise they have accepted) by introducing irrelevant issues regarding the legality of parking on a footpath which, even if it existed, would only apply to PUBLIC highways and roads.
I think this should enough, but if you read the argument in their rejection(and compare with their case summary) you'll find even more.
Thank you b789 and H C Andersen. I submitted my reply on Saturday, hopefully will hear from POPLA soon
I received the below reply from POPLA
Dear Mr
We are writing to update you about your appeal.
Your appeal is now ready to be assessed and is currently in a queue waiting to be allocated. We expect to make a decision on your appeal 6-8 weeks from the point that the appeal was first submitted. The next communication that you will receive from us will be the decision on your appeal.
Kind regards
POPLA Team