Editorial policy

How Appeals Desk picks a source, checks a figure, dates a page and corrects a mistake. Last updated 20 October 2026.

What we publish

Answers for someone holding a notice: which body hears the appeal, the deadlines and where each one is written, the grounds, and how the appeals body has decided before. A page says what a primary source says, links it, and gives the day we read it. Nothing here is legal advice, and no page promises that an appeal will succeed.

The sources we re-read

A check script reads each of these again and compares it with what our pages quote or print. Its last run was on 4 November 2026: 15 of 15 unchanged. When a source has changed, the pages it supports are corrected before anything else on them is edited.

• IAS FAQs, standard appeals: the sentences our pages quote, for the home page, /ias.
• IAS Annual Report 2024-2025 (PDF): the figures our pages print, for /ias.
• POPLA FAQs: the sentences our pages quote, for the home page.
• POPLA annual reports page: the list of published reports, so a new one shows up, for the home page.
• POPLA Annual Report 2025, Appendix (PDF): the figures our pages print, for the home page.
• Private parking single Code of Practice, Version 1.1 (PDF): the clauses our pages quote, for the home page.
• DfT statutory guidance on civil enforcement of parking contraventions: the sentences our pages quote, for the home page, /council-pcn/westminster, /council-pcn/camden.
• FPR Practice Direction 27A, Family Proceedings: Court Bundles: the sentences our pages quote, for /court-bundle-requirements/family.
• Westminster City Council, pay a parking ticket: the sentences our pages quote, for /council-pcn/westminster.
• Westminster City Council, challenge a PCN: the sentences our pages quote, for /council-pcn/westminster.
• Camden Council, paying a penalty charge notice: the sentences our pages quote, for /council-pcn/camden.
• Camden Council, challenge a PCN: the sentences our pages quote, for /council-pcn/camden.
• SI 2022/576, regulation 3 (representations and appeals): the sentences our pages quote, for /council-pcn/westminster, /council-pcn/camden.
• London Tribunals appeal statistics 2024-25 (xlsx): the file our figures are counted from, for /council-pcn/westminster, /council-pcn/camden.
• London Tribunals annual reports and appeal statistics page: the list of published reports, so a new one shows up, for /council-pcn/westminster, /council-pcn/camden.

The data behind the tables

• Which appeals body hears an operator: the published member lists of the British Parking Association (POPLA) and the International Parking Community (the IAS).
• How each operator's appeals went: the appendix to POPLA's annual report, checked against the report's own printed totals.
• Council appeals in London: London Tribunals' appeal statistics. Each council's own deadlines and payment rules: that council's pages, read one by one and listed on our council list.
• EHC needs-assessment refusals: the Department for Education's release on EHC plans.
• Rules of law: the text on legislation.gov.uk. A claim we could not read in force there is left off. A rule from the private parking Code of Practice is cited by its clause number, as clause 5.2 for the grace period, so the reader can find it in the Code itself; the parking rules page shows what is in force and what changed, each with its primary text.

How a figure is checked and dated

Our figures are counted from the data files each time a page is served, so a number on a page and the same number in our data cannot drift apart. Each page names its source and the day it was read. The date our sitemap gives a page is the day its content last changed, not the day the site was last deployed.

What we leave out

• A figure we cannot point to a source for.
• A rule read only in a news story or a forum post.
• Any promise of an outcome.
• Paid placement. We take no commission, referral fee or advertising, and operators are named for identification only.

How the site is paid for

The guidance and the parking appeal letter are free. A few documents are paid for, and each one is listed with its refund promise in our terms. What we sell does not change what a page says about an operator or a council.

Corrections

Email hello@getaxionlabs.com with the page address and what you think is wrong. One person reads that mail and answers it; expect a reply within a few days. A confirmed error is corrected on the page, and the date the sitemap gives that page moves with the correction. Who publishes this site: About Appeals Desk.