Private Parking Tickets.
Discussion
At the weekend I parked in one of these out-of-town shopping complex car parks. It was free to park but the sign said 'Free Parking 2hr, no return with 2hrs'.
On my return I had a 'parking ticket' slipped under the windscreen wiper saying I'd been parked too long (I had, 4hrs worth) and I owed £30 if I paid within 12 days or £50 otherwise.
On the assumption they can't get hold of DVLA records to trace me, I carefully filed the ticket in the bin.
Should I expect an nasty letter in the post demanding Fifty Notes?
On my return I had a 'parking ticket' slipped under the windscreen wiper saying I'd been parked too long (I had, 4hrs worth) and I owed £30 if I paid within 12 days or £50 otherwise.
On the assumption they can't get hold of DVLA records to trace me, I carefully filed the ticket in the bin.
Should I expect an nasty letter in the post demanding Fifty Notes?
my gym is next to a massive B&Q which has a huge car park, always half empty in the evening. I've always parked there. Last week I got a nice Europcar ticket asking for £50 as I wasn't a shopper (my own fault I know!) so I went in and bought 99p's worth of fuses & showed it to the newly appointed ticket warden who took the ticket away.
Again, same question, could they have enforced this ?
Again, same question, could they have enforced this ?
Anyone who can show "just cause" can write to DVLA and get the details of the registered owner of a car. I happened to check recently as I am fed up with finding a nearby garage parking its customers cars in the car park of a hall I run. There is a fee of £2.50 each time you ask.
Therefore I assume the owner of the car park merely writes to the DVLA including £2.50 saying the owner of this car owes me £50 as they were parked in my car park on x date.
Chris
Therefore I assume the owner of the car park merely writes to the DVLA including £2.50 saying the owner of this car owes me £50 as they were parked in my car park on x date.
Chris
Anyone can demand money! It's whether they can enforce that IE make you pay them.
They would have to take you to the county court to enforce payment, or they may put it in the hands of a scummy debt collection agency who will send you lots of threatening letters. I think the latter is more likely given the amount.
Good luck...
They would have to take you to the county court to enforce payment, or they may put it in the hands of a scummy debt collection agency who will send you lots of threatening letters. I think the latter is more likely given the amount.
Good luck...
Do they have anyway for you to pay for more than 2hrs parking? Do you have reciepts from the shops in that retail area for the time of the "offence"?
If they have no way you can pay for extra time and can prove that you spent it shopping then if you get a nasty letter then send them copies of your reciepts and ask them politely if their customers (the shops) really want them hounding customers away. IE If you had only spent 2hrs there you woldn't have spent as much money. Also, politely point out that this probably isn't good business to hound customers in this way.
If that doesn't work write a letter to each store manager on the retail park about the problem (including all evidence and correspondance).
If they have no way you can pay for extra time and can prove that you spent it shopping then if you get a nasty letter then send them copies of your reciepts and ask them politely if their customers (the shops) really want them hounding customers away. IE If you had only spent 2hrs there you woldn't have spent as much money. Also, politely point out that this probably isn't good business to hound customers in this way.
If that doesn't work write a letter to each store manager on the retail park about the problem (including all evidence and correspondance).
Details are eaily gotten hold of, and yes they will pursue it. Apply some lateral thinking. The retail park will have planning permission as a retail park with ancillary parking facilities. By applying these charges, they must show either that the sum sought is a reasonable estimate of their loss by you occupying the space, i.e. a customer using that space would have generated £50 profit to the shops (!), or accept that they are running a commercial, and exhorbitant, car park. In which case this makes it a seperate planning unit, needing seperate planning permission.
A word of warning though, perservere in writing or the planners down the Town Hall won't pursue it for you.
A word of warning though, perservere in writing or the planners down the Town Hall won't pursue it for you.
duntonsr said: Earlier last year, parked in a Mway services for a few hrs.
Got a ticket on the windscreen, which I ignored!
Got a debt collectors/solictors letter, so they obviously can get the details from the DVLA.
I don't want to bounce the thread off in a different direction, but this kinda thing pishes me right off... you pass a (advert, no sorry) motorway sign saying "Don't drive tired, take a break", and then at the fricking parking at the services 1m down the road is all 2hr limited... Some safety measure...
[:Bloodboiling:]
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