Parking bays. No return within 1 hour.

[Johnnytheboy]

herewego said:

Perhaps there is somewhere else more suitable for all day parking?

Oh of course, if only the op had thought of that.

[LunarOne]

So you pop to the shops and pick up a loaf of bread and the paper and then head home after 7 minutes. You realise that you forgot the batteries you were asked to get and have to go straight back. You're back there 20 minutes later, and take another 5 minutes. All in all, you have taken less than your maximum 1 hour, but you still returned within one hour. Do you still get a ticket?

What if you pop out early before other half wakes up to get choccies for your anniversary. You return home and get in the shower, at which point O/H realises he doesn't have anything for you, and quickly jumps in the same car and parks in the same space to buy you a card. Ticket duly arrives. Both of you are busted, while neither of you know anything about an infraction...

[Drawweight]

I got told from a serving traffic warden that if you do switch bays that effectively 'resets the clock' and you can stay for a further time period which was 1 hour in my particular town.

It's possible he was wrong but as far as he was concerned that was correct.

Actually he was a nice old guy who I always passed the time of day with in spite of getting several tickets from him. After all he's only doing his job and if I overstay the time limit that's my own stupid fault. And to prove being nice pays just before he retired I got a call on my mobile one afternoon telling me to move my car or he would ticket it. I've no idea to this day how he got my number.

[herewego]

Johnnytheboy said:

herewego said:

Perhaps there is somewhere else more suitable for all day parking?

Oh of course, if only the op had thought of that.

If only we could figure out why the restrictions are there maybe we wouldn't be trying to circumvent them.

[Zigster]

LunarOne said:

So you pop to the shops and pick up a loaf of bread and the paper and then head home after 7 minutes. You realise that you forgot the batteries you were asked to get and have to go straight back. You're back there 20 minutes later, and take another 5 minutes. All in all, you have taken less than your maximum 1 hour, but you still returned within one hour. Do you still get a ticket?

What if you pop out early before other half wakes up to get choccies for your anniversary. You return home and get in the shower, at which point O/H realises he doesn't have anything for you, and quickly jumps in the same car and parks in the same space to buy you a card. Ticket duly arrives. Both of you are busted, while neither of you know anything about an infraction...

Wife and I did that at our local Waitrose and got a ticket.

[4rephill]

LunarOne said:

So you pop to the shops and pick up a loaf of bread and the paper and then head home after 7 minutes. You realise that you forgot the batteries you were asked to get and have to go straight back. You're back there 20 minutes later, and take another 5 minutes. All in all, you have taken less than your maximum 1 hour, but you still returned within one hour. Do you still get a ticket?

What if you pop out early before other half wakes up to get choccies for your anniversary. You return home and get in the shower, at which point O/H realises he doesn't have anything for you, and quickly jumps in the same car and parks in the same space to buy you a card. Ticket duly arrives. Both of you are busted, while neither of you know anything about an infraction...

As soon as the vehicle leaves the parking bay, it cannot return for a minimum of 1 hour.

Been parked for 1 minute and then left the bay? - No return for 1 hour

Been parked for 5 minutes and then left the bay? - No return for 1 hour

Been parked for 10 minutes and then left the bay? - No return for 1 hour

Been parked for 25 minutes and then left the bay? - No return for 1 hour

Etc., etc., etc.............

How hard is that to understand?

When a ticket is issued for a parking offence, it's issued against the vehicle - Not the driver, so the vehicle cannot return to the same parking bay within 1 hour, regardless of who is driving it: Same driver, spouse, relative, neighbour, workmate, stranger who the vehicle's owner just decided to trust for some reason - Whoever!

Otherwise, people would park their vehicle for the entire day in a restricted parking bay, and simply claim that different drivers had parked it in the exact same spot throughout the day and take the piss!

[Vipers]

LunarOne said:

So you pop to the shops and pick up a loaf of bread and the paper and then head home after 7 minutes. You realise that you forgot the batteries you were asked to get and have to go straight back. You're back there 20 minutes later, and take another 5 minutes. All in all, you have taken less than your maximum 1 hour, but you still returned within one hour. Do you still get a ticket?

What if you pop out early before other half wakes up to get choccies for your anniversary. You return home and get in the shower, at which point O/H realises he doesn't have anything for you, and quickly jumps in the same car and parks in the same space to buy you a card. Ticket duly arrives. Both of you are busted, while neither of you know anything about an infraction...

Our Sainsburys have Parking Eye keeping on things and "No return within 3 hours", I wrote to them and asked if I drive in, drop off the missus and drive out, can I come back in half an hour to pick her up without infringing the no return policy.

There answer was NO, what a bunch of ste I thought.

[Funk]

Vipers said:

Our Sainsburys have Parking Eye keeping on things and "No return within 3 hours", I wrote to them and asked if I drive in, drop off the missus and drive out, can I come back in half an hour to pick her up without infringing the no return policy.

There answer was NO, what a bunch of ste I thought.

What a ridiculous state of affairs...

[PurpleMoonlight]

Funk said:

What a ridiculous state of affairs...

Likely misuse of the car park by the public which causes this.

[Riley Blue]

Vipers said:

Our Sainsburys have Parking Eye keeping on things and "No return within 3 hours", I wrote to them and asked if I drive in, drop off the missus and drive out, can I come back in half an hour to pick her up without infringing the no return policy.

There answer was NO, what a bunch of ste I thought.

Not even if you use the drop off/pick up zone and remain in your car while she gets out and gets back in again when you return for her? Bonkers!

[Vipers]

Riley Blue said:

Vipers said:

Our Sainsburys have Parking Eye keeping on things and "No return within 3 hours", I wrote to them and asked if I drive in, drop off the missus and drive out, can I come back in half an hour to pick her up without infringing the no return policy.

There answer was NO, what a bunch of ste I thought.

Not even if you use the drop off/pick up zone and remain in your car while she gets out and gets back in again when you return for her? Bonkers!

The camera is at the entrance of the car park, and exit, so it knows you were only in the car park for 5 mins max. I am waiting for the first invoice in the post.

[Riley Blue]

Vipers said:

Riley Blue said:

Vipers said:

Our Sainsburys have Parking Eye keeping on things and "No return within 3 hours", I wrote to them and asked if I drive in, drop off the missus and drive out, can I come back in half an hour to pick her up without infringing the no return policy.

There answer was NO, what a bunch of ste I thought.

Not even if you use the drop off/pick up zone and remain in your car while she gets out and gets back in again when you return for her? Bonkers!

The camera is at the entrance of the car park, and exit, so it knows you were only in the car park for 5 mins max. I am waiting for the first invoice in the post.

I'll look for the parking conditions at my local Sainsburys and if they're the same I'll ask inside the store, it seems incredibly short sighted of them.

[Vipers]

Riley Blue said:

Vipers said:

Riley Blue said:

Vipers said:

Our Sainsburys have Parking Eye keeping on things and "No return within 3 hours", I wrote to them and asked if I drive in, drop off the missus and drive out, can I come back in half an hour to pick her up without infringing the no return policy.

There answer was NO, what a bunch of ste I thought.

Not even if you use the drop off/pick up zone and remain in your car while she gets out and gets back in again when you return for her? Bonkers!

The camera is at the entrance of the car park, and exit, so it knows you were only in the car park for 5 mins max. I am waiting for the first invoice in the post.

I'll look for the parking conditions at my local Sainsburys and if they're the same I'll ask inside the store, it seems incredibly short sighted of them.

Do tell what you find out. Also in our car park are is a local bottle recycling area. I wrote to the council about the situation of recycling your bottles and returning within three hours to shop, their response "Not our problem".

[speedking31]

herewego said:

If only we could figure out why the restrictions are there maybe we wouldn't be trying to circumvent them.

It's nothing to do with trying to circumvent them, the complete opposite actually.
It's obvious that these rules are in place to encourage turnover of visitors, to give everyone a chance to nip to the shops. But if the place is deserted, or even quiet enough that you can relocate your car to a different parking spot, then it seems to me that that opportunity is being afforded to all those that need it.

[herewego]

speedking31 said:

herewego said:

If only we could figure out why the restrictions are there maybe we wouldn't be trying to circumvent them.

It's nothing to do with trying to circumvent them, the complete opposite actually.
It's obvious that these rules are in place to encourage turnover of visitors, to give everyone a chance to nip to the shops. But if the place is deserted, or even quiet enough that you can relocate your car to a different parking spot, then it seems to me that that opportunity is being afforded to all those that need it.

That's fair so maybe ask the LA to put time/day limits on the restrictions e.g Mon to Sat 9am to 5pm?

[techguyone]

Riley Blue said:

Vipers said:

Riley Blue said:

Vipers said:

Our Sainsburys have Parking Eye keeping on things and "No return within 3 hours", I wrote to them and asked if I drive in, drop off the missus and drive out, can I come back in half an hour to pick her up without infringing the no return policy.

There answer was NO, what a bunch of ste I thought.

Not even if you use the drop off/pick up zone and remain in your car while she gets out and gets back in again when you return for her? Bonkers!

The camera is at the entrance of the car park, and exit, so it knows you were only in the car park for 5 mins max. I am waiting for the first invoice in the post.

I'll look for the parking conditions at my local Sainsburys and if they're the same I'll ask inside the store, it seems incredibly short sighted of them.

Not quite the same, but I've known a number of people in various supermarkets (incl Sainsbury's) who have been caught going in the car park in the morning, then much later in the day have gone back to the same place for something else then had an invoice a bit later for staying longer than the 2/3/4 hr limit - seems the cameras never picked them up leaving the first time and disregarded the second entrance and picked up the last exit, so they thought the person had been there all day.

Naturally no one in-store gave 2 fks 'not our problem mate go and see bla bla parking firm'

[cb31]

So said:

Having recently nearly fallen foul of this in Tunbridge Wells, I found out that groups of bays there have zones and you cannot return to another bay in the same zone.

The parking wardens are numerous and diligent in Tunbridge Wells, they must earn a fortune for the local council. There aren't many zones in TW, you can be in a zone, walk for over 10 minutes and still be in the same zone. Seems very harsh but not unexpected.

[MDL111]

I was got a ticket in one of these no return for an hour bays when I first when I arrived only had a little money - got a 15 minute parking ticket went inside to get more cash and then got another ticket for the full hour - not allowed seemingly as paying twice not allowed either - appealed and surprise surprise got rejected

I hate parking in the U.K. - in Munich I recently had to park on a footpath (well out of the way not blocking anything before somebody complains) - 15 euro ticket for an hour, 30 euros for all day according to the very nice parking warden. While in London 10 minutes late with a German number plate - they tow the bloody car to somewhere ages away and want 250 quid to get it back (nearly had a heart attack as I thought it was stolen)

[Vipers]

MDL111 said:

I was got a ticket in one of these no return for an hour bays when I first when I arrived only had a little money - got a 15 minute parking ticket went inside to get more cash and then got another ticket for the full hour - not allowed seemingly as paying twice not allowed either - appealed and surprise surprise got rejected

I hate parking in the U.K. - in Munich I recently had to park on a footpath (well out of the way not blocking anything before somebody complains) - 15 euro ticket for an hour, 30 euros for all day according to the very nice parking warden. While in London 10 minutes late with a German number plate - they tow the bloody car to somewhere ages away and want 250 quid to get it back (nearly had a heart attack as I thought it was stolen)

Ginormous two tier shopping centre neat my daughter in Freshwater NSW, spaces well over a thousand spaces, cost..............

First three hours FREE.

[Riley Blue]

Vipers said:

Riley Blue said:

Vipers said:

Riley Blue said:

Vipers said:

Our Sainsburys have Parking Eye keeping on things and "No return within 3 hours", I wrote to them and asked if I drive in, drop off the missus and drive out, can I come back in half an hour to pick her up without infringing the no return policy.

There answer was NO, what a bunch of ste I thought.

Not even if you use the drop off/pick up zone and remain in your car while she gets out and gets back in again when you return for her? Bonkers!

The camera is at the entrance of the car park, and exit, so it knows you were only in the car park for 5 mins max. I am waiting for the first invoice in the post.

I'll look for the parking conditions at my local Sainsburys and if they're the same I'll ask inside the store, it seems incredibly short sighted of them.

Do tell what you find out. Also in our car park are is a local bottle recycling area. I wrote to the council about the situation of recycling your bottles and returning within three hours to shop, their response "Not our problem".

I checked just now, no maximum time or 'return within' restrictions, just signs advising that they're monitoring the misuse of parent & child and disabled spaces.