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APCOA Parking PCN – No Payment/Permit – Welwyn North Railway
Station
DIR By: spinningfish
Date: July 9, 2025, 4:53 am
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A member of our household is registered disabled and is a Blue
Badge holder, which allows free parking at Welwyn North Railway
station.
The APCOA website allows two vehicles to be registered on their
website, but only ONE to be registered against the Blue Badge
permit at any one time.
The household's main vehicle was in the garage for repair, so
the registration number was changed to a different vehicle on
the APCOA Blue Badge permit. When the main vehicle was back from
the garage, the permit was mistakenly not reverted back again,
hence the below penalty notice.
Sadly, the vehicle below has visited the same station another
three times before this penalty charge was received and the
registration amended again on the APCOA website, so unsure if
more penalties will be incoming in the next few days.
It's dated 28th June, but wasn't received until 5th July.
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Re: APCOA Parking PCN – No Payment/Permit – Welwyn North Railway
Station
DIR By: b789
Date: July 9, 2025, 5:04 am
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What the Keeper has been sent is a fake penalty notice. It is a
fraudulent attempt to gain money without lawful reason. In other
words, it is a criminal act that APCOA are undertaking.
There is a whole essay on this elsewhere on this forum that I
have explained. Any attempt to recover a supposed penalty issued
under byelaws, can only be challenged in the magistrates court
after information has been laid and a summons issued.
APCOA will try to recover the "penalty" into their own coffers,
whereas, if the penalty were challenged in court and the
challenge was unsuccessful, any fine imposed would go to the
public purse, not APCOA's back account. However, APCOA are
offering an appeal and secondary appeal route through POPLA,
which is not the platform for challenging "penalty" purportedly
issued under statutory belaws.
You can read up on the reasoning here: Why APCOA have no
authority to issue Penalty Notices under railway bylaws
HTML https://www.ftla.uk/private-parking-tickets/why-apcoa-have-no-authority-to-issue-penalty-notices-under-railway-bylaws/
You should also read this thread, whilst it applies to SABA
rather than APCOA, it is fully relevant to this and any other
"penalty" issued by an unregulated private parking firm: Saba
Parking Services - Railway parking site - debt collector before
initial notice?
HTML https://www.ftla.uk/private-parking-tickets/saba-parking-services-railway-parking-site-debt-collector-before-initial-notice/msg50540/#msg50540
So, I advise that you follow the advice given in that second
link about SABA and you make contact with the police, not the
useless Action Fraud, and report APCOA for fraud by false
representation (Fraud Act 2006, s.2),
Contact your MP, report APCOA to the DVLA and your local police
force economic crime unit, as per the examples in the thread
linked above.
You will never pay a penny to this firm that operates outside of
the law.
Even if you did nothing and ignored all letters about this,
whether from APCOA or powerless debt collectors, nothing would
happen. Whilst it shouldn't be appealed or subsequently t POPLA,
you could simply appeal on the basis that APCOA have no
authority to issue Penalty Notices, only Parking Charge Notices.
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