Universe Private parking chargeJurisdiction ScotlandStage IAS second-stage appeal

Current appeal route: IAS second-stage appeal. Checked 2026-10-08 against the official AOS lists.

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Observed outcome profile

Smart Parking (Scotland)

Observed POPLA outcomes among second-stage appeals submitted in the reporting period.

Stage before figures

This page does not describe the operator’s first-stage acceptance rate. It covers only published second-stage reporting.

Historical outcome profile and KADOE statistics

Historical POPLA outcomes (your current route is IAS)

Reporting period 2024/25Reported closures 447Source stage POPLA second stage

AOP₂ adjudicated

52.0%

Allowed 195 of n=375 decided.

binomial model interval (iid assumption): 46.9%–57.0%.

AOP₃ closed-case favourable share

Not calculated

n=447 reported closures, but the operator/appellant withdrawal split is not published per operator.

Operator-withdrawal rate

Not available

POPLA reports 72 combined not-contested cases for this entity; the withdrawing party is not identified.

Closed-case decomposition: allowed represents 43.6% of reported closures. The remaining not-contested cases cannot be separated by withdrawing party at operator level.

Descriptive scale measure

AOP₄ intensity

ADR submissions per 1,000 KADOE requests over a fully overlapping window.

Per 1,000 KADOE requests

0.5

359 submissions ÷ 780,593 requests. No interval.

Numerator period2024-10-01 to 2025-09-30Denominator period2024-10-01 to 2025-09-30
Window overlap12/12 monthsComparabilitylimited: Scotland numerator with UK-wide KADOE denominator
Lag assumptionsame-month descriptive alignment; no causal lag inferredIssued kindregistered-keeper data requests; not tickets issued

Years are rows

Observed trend

Reporting periodAOP₂ adjudicatedAllowedRefusedCombined not-contestedAOP₄ / 1,000
2023/2435.8% (n=346)1242221350.7
2024/2552.0% (n=375)195180720.5

No predictive series is produced: only two comparable reporting periods are present. Regime exposure is shown rather than silently treating periods as identical.

Attribution and reconciliation

Outcome facts are calculated from the POPLA 2025 Annual Report Appendix (2024/25). KADOE request counts come from DVLA’s quarterly data-sharing release under the Open Government Licence.

Source note: source report submitted table mismatch; entity rows retained as printed. No part of the source-level unallocated submitted total is assigned to this entity.

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