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APCOA Manchester Airport Parking Charge
DIR By: Camperman
Date: March 27, 2026, 6:46 am
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I've received a parking charge pertaining to the alleged to
contravention of: use of pick up / drop of zone without making a
valid payment at Manchester airport lower drop off four court
T1.
On the day in question, the vehicle which was alleged to have
being involved in the contravention was legitimately parked at
the mid stay multi-story car park where it remained for a number
of days.
I can only assume that the alleged offence took place at some
point during the vehicle entering the car park.
The Pearson driving is familiar with aforementioned drop off
zone and does not believe they entered it. The vehicle did not
stop as far as I am aware at any point and nobody left the
vehicle at any point.
There are a couple of points which may be of interest. Firstly,
the person driving was unable to locate the multi-storey car
park entrance on their first approach and drove past and back
out onto the main road and back around the roundabout following
the signs as they did previously before successfully finding the
entrance which they had initially driven past. They do not
believe that they entered the drop-off zone by doing so.
Secondly, when the person driving got to the entrance barrier at
the car park entrance, the barrier did not lift and the person
driving had to push the help button and speak to an operative
who lifted the barrier remotely, explaining that the camera
system had difficulty reading the vehicles number plates.
What I am wondering is if the ANPR system incorrectly believes
that the vehicle entered the drop of zone because some of its
cameras were not able to fully track it's legitimate route
journey back out onto the road system and back in to the parking
entrance area due to the same issue which caused the barrier not
to lift at the car park entrance.
I would be really grateful for any help regarding this matter.
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Re: APCOA Manchester Airport Parking Charge
DIR By: jfollows
Date: March 27, 2026, 6:50 am
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Two things:
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HTML https://www.ftla.uk/private-parking-tickets/read-this-first-private-parking-charges-forum-guide/
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HTML https://www.ftla.uk/private-parking-tickets/apcoa-manchester-airport-pcn/msg74812/#msg74812
Essentially if you search the forum you will find similar cases
and successful appeals.
APCOA doesn’t “do” court.
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Re: APCOA Manchester Airport Parking Charge
DIR By: Camperman
Date: March 27, 2026, 12:02 pm
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Thanks. I now understand that I need to respond as the
registered keeper but will not reveal the identity of the driver
as there is no legal requirement for me to do so.
What's bugging me is that I'm certain they've made a mistake.
The driver is familiar with the airport and has used the drop
off many times. They didn't enter it.
I firmly believe it's a system discrepancy caused by the
inability for my number plate to be read by some of their
cameras. The person who the driver spoke to at the barrier told
the driver as much. The barrier needed to be lifted manually. I
suspect this has something to do with the vehicle having been
wrongly identified as having entered the drop off zone. The
driver had absolutely no reason to enter the drop off zone
having pre booked parking in the mid stay car park.
The photographs don't really prove anything, it's just a
terrible quality, small image of the vehicle. Who's to say where
that was taken? It looks as far as I can tell as though it's a
capture possibly taken at the ticket barrier entrance to the mid
stay for which parking had been pre booked and paid for.
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Re: APCOA Manchester Airport Parking Charge
DIR By: Mustek
Date: March 27, 2026, 12:11 pm
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You are overthinking this. They can only pursue the driver, who
is unknown to them, as this is not relevant land.
This fact alone is fatal to their PCN.
The more information you share with them, the more they can
potentially find ways to identify a driver.
So your best advice here is to stick to the known method to get
this PCN cancelled.
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