“It’s worth an appeal regardless because the council might just cancel it, you never know”
— a driver on r/LegalAdviceUK, harvested 7 September 2026
Your operator's POPLA record, and what it means for your odds
Everything on this site is free to read, and so is the appeal letter. The one thing you can pay for is one operator's full POPLA record, £20 once.
First, the part that is free
What POPLA decided last year, across every operator
In the year to 30 September 2025 POPLA decided 67,680 appeals and allowed 14,578 of them, which is 21.5%. Scheme-wide the allowed rate ran 2023: 22.4% · 2024: 20.4% · 2025: 21.5%.
Counted by us from the POPLA Annual Reports 2023, 2024 and 2025 Appendices, checked 24/08/2026.
Every operator's single-year figure is published free, ranked, with the workings shown.
Build your appeal letter now, free, on screen and as a download. There is no payment and no email address anywhere on that path.
What the £20 record is
One operator, 6 parts, every figure carrying the document it was read from and the date we read it.
- What POPLA decided about this company in the reported year: appeals decided, appeals allowed for the driver, the share, the appeals withdrawn before any ruling, and the all-operator average beside them.
- The three-year record, 2023, 2024 and 2025, from each year's own appendix, with the movement stated as arithmetic.
- The grounds and what answers each one: the paragraph of the rulebook this company is bound by, and the evidence that ground needs.
- Your clock: the reduced-rate window, the operator window, what happens to the rate while an appeal runs, and the independent window for the body that actually hears this company.
- The letter, pre-filled for this operator, ready for your dates.
- What the company itself publishes about appealing to it: its appeal page, the window it states in its own words, and the complaints response time it prints, each with the address we read it at and the date.
What it is not
It is not a prediction about your case. It is a record of other people's cases, and nobody, including us, can tell you that you will win. It is not legal advice, it does not file anything for you, and it is not needed to appeal: every stage of appealing is free by law and the letter is free here.
The record: £20, once
All 6 parts above, for one operator, on one page you keep. Tell us which company wrote to you and the record is built for that company: the figures, the rulebook clause, the route and the clock are all theirs, so there is no general version to sell you.
Choose your operator, then get the record
It arrives by email, usually within a minute of paying, as a link to the record. The link keeps working for 90 days.
The appeal letter stays free either way, and everything above is free to read.
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Sources named above: POPLA Annual Report - Appendix (Parking on Private Land Appeals) · The Independent Appeals Service (IAS)