£100 parking ticket for being at a petrol station 30 min
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To my surprise I have a £100 parking ticket for spending more than 30 mins at the Shell on East Hill, Wandsworth.
I wrote to them to say that this is surprising, I used the facilities Including car cleaning and the shop.
They responded to me to say that they effectively don’t care and I have no further right of appeal to them - I should have seen the signs.
Tbh when driving in, your focus is on the road junction and then space in the station - not looking for signs telling you that something looking a bit like services cannot be used for more than 30 mins (I think in total I was there around an hour an 10).
Any experience of this and thoughts on what to do next?
I wrote to them to say that this is surprising, I used the facilities Including car cleaning and the shop.
They responded to me to say that they effectively don’t care and I have no further right of appeal to them - I should have seen the signs.
Tbh when driving in, your focus is on the road junction and then space in the station - not looking for signs telling you that something looking a bit like services cannot be used for more than 30 mins (I think in total I was there around an hour an 10).
Any experience of this and thoughts on what to do next?
Biggus thingus said:
Sandwich board advising other customers that the owners of this service station are t
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Book a couple of weeks off work and spend every available minute stood outside?
And that's really all the OP can do. There would have been adequate signage at the site. He's been caught. That's it.tsBook a couple of weeks off work and spend every available minute stood outside?
five50 said:
To my surprise I have a £100 parking ticket for spending more than 30 mins at the Shell on East Hill, Wandsworth.
I wrote to them to say that this is surprising, I used the facilities Including car cleaning and the shop.
They responded to me to say that they effectively don’t care and I have no further right of appeal to them - I should have seen the signs.
Tbh when driving in, your focus is on the road junction and then space in the station - not looking for signs telling you that something looking a bit like services cannot be used for more than 30 mins (I think in total I was there around an hour an 10).
Any experience of this and thoughts on what to do next?
Just out of interest, were you actually at the petrol station for an hour and 10 mins?I wrote to them to say that this is surprising, I used the facilities Including car cleaning and the shop.
They responded to me to say that they effectively don’t care and I have no further right of appeal to them - I should have seen the signs.
Tbh when driving in, your focus is on the road junction and then space in the station - not looking for signs telling you that something looking a bit like services cannot be used for more than 30 mins (I think in total I was there around an hour an 10).
Any experience of this and thoughts on what to do next?
I guess they are thinking (as do many of us to be fair) there can be no way at all to need 70 minutes at a petrol station, even for using the car clean and shopping.
If you can break it all down and give an explanation of the time, it might help. Was it a typical small petrol station, a wash area and little shop - or part of some shopping park?
I fear whatever you offer, they will say matters not, you should have got outta there once you were closing in on 30 mins whatever the case.
If you can break it all down and give an explanation of the time, it might help. Was it a typical small petrol station, a wash area and little shop - or part of some shopping park?
I fear whatever you offer, they will say matters not, you should have got outta there once you were closing in on 30 mins whatever the case.
Spleen said:
Indeed, somewhat perplexed at how anyone can spend that amount of time at a petrol station.
Some are really fancy, can sit down and eat, do a decent food shop etc. Mind you their parking restrictions generally reflect this. Can’t imagine they would have 30mins restriction for a mini services type scenario.It's an invoice for breach of contract. If you were continuously using the services of the station, then arguably the 30 minute time limit is an unfair and therefore unenforceable contract term. The visibility of signage is another separate argument that no contract was created in the first place.
I would write to the management of both the parking company and the garage and complain,( go straight to the top man /woman) Asking what exactly the £100 is for and ask for them to explain how they came to that figure and suggest it should be more like £20 and offer to pay that as full and final settlement and you would be interested to see what the local newspaper would make of this .
It may do no good but for 20 mins to write a couple of e mails worth a try.
It may do no good but for 20 mins to write a couple of e mails worth a try.
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