How Can I Appeal and Win a Parking Eye Court Case?

Have you received a parking charge notice from Parking Eye? This can be a worrying time, but you’re not alone. Each month, over 32,000 people visit this site seeking advice on tickets and fines.

In this article, you’ll learn:

•  Who Parking Eye is, and where they operate
•  Why you might receive a parking fine from Parking Eye
•  What steps you can take to challenge your ticket
•  What happens if you have to pay a Parking Eye fine
•  How to appeal against a Parking Eye parking fine

We know this situation can feel stressful, but we’re here to make it easier for you. We’ll help you understand how to deal with Parking Eye and parking fines.

Let’s dive in!

How to avoid paying Parking Eye parking tickets

If you want to avoid paying a Parking Eye parking ticket then you’ll need an airtight appeal.

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Why Did Parking Eye Give You a Parking Fine?

First things first, you need to understand that you are parking on private land, and Parking Eye gets to make the rules. They are also free to interpret those rules as they wish. Trust me, they will find any reason they can to give you a parking charge notice if you let them. Some of the more obvious, possibly valid reasons to get a private parking fine, are:

• Parking in a permit-only bay.
• Not displaying a valid ticket in a pay and display car park.
• Overstaying the time you paid for.
• Parking in a disabled bay with no disabled sticker visible.
• Taking up more than one parking bay.

Do You Have To Pay Parking Eye?

OK, this is where things get a bit confusing. First of all, don’t confuse a parking charge notice with a penalty charge notice. Let me briefly outline each of these.

• Parking charge notice – a private parking invoice that is not legally enforceable.
• Penalty charge notice – an official notification of a parking fine from the local authority, which is legally enforceable.

Now, Parking Eye is a member of the British Parking Association (BPA). What this means, is that Parking Eye can approach the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) to find out the details of the owner of a vehicle that they have the registration number for.

Because Parking Eye can track down the owner of a vehicle, you probably can’t ignore the parking charge notice. If you do, Parking Eye will contact the registered owner of the vehicle to start hounding them for payment of the alleged parking fine. However, as I already mentioned, a parking charge notice is not legally enforceable. Meaning there is no direct route to legal help to get you to pay. At least not from the point of view of an alleged parking offence. 

What Parking Eye can do, is treat the unpaid parking fine as a debt. This debt can be handed over to a collection agency, which will begin chasing you for payment. Ultimately, if you do not pay the private parking fine, the collection agency might ask the court to issue a County Court Judgement (CCJ) against the debt, to make you legally liable to pay it. Therefore, you need to appeal against the parking fine if you don’t want to end up being chased for payment and face potential legal proceedings.

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Appealing Against a Parking Eye Parking Fine

OK, I will now explain the process of how to appeal against a parking ticket from Parking Eye. You have 28 days from the date of issue of the parking charge notice, to begin your appeal. First of all, you are going to need to provide evidence of why you don’t need to pay the fine. Typical evidence would include the following:

• A valid ticket for the period you received a fine for not paying.
• Photographs of your car parked in an appropriate place (with the date function on your camera turned on).
• Witness statements saying you did not commit the parking offence.
• A letter from a garage stating your care was broken down.

You will make an appeal directly with Parking Eye. And you can do this on the company website. To do so, you will need the parking charge reference number and also your vehicle registration number. Use these to log into the portal and upload your evidence.

You will receive an answer in writing from Parking Eye, telling you whether your appeal was a success or not. If it wasn’t, you have a further stage that you can go through. You can make an appeal through the BPA. This is known as a POPLA appeal. POPLA means Parking on Private Land Appeal. You will do this online as well, and there is no charge for doing so.

You need four things to start a POPLA appeal online.

1. Your verification code.
2. The parking charge notice number.
3. Your vehicle registration number.
4. Evidence to upload to support your appeal.

You lose nothing by appealing against a parking ticket. You should try an appeal before you pay. In many cases, appeals are successful, and this would mean that the matter is resolved. Once a POPLA appeal is in process, Parking Eye can no longer hound you for payment until a decision has been made.