Parking ticket in Asda car park - Is this legal, can they take me to court?

sarahg1969

Tim_Deegan wrote: »

There is if you have a blue badge, because that's what the land owners have decided.

In which case, they are discriminating against disabled persons who don't have a blue badge.

adouglasmhor

Tim_Deegan wrote: »

There is if you have a blue badge, because that's what the land owners have decided.

And there is really !!!!!! all they can do about it if someone is rude enough not to comply(unless they have the space adopted by the LA if they are in Scotland).

innishmore

Hi guys,
I went to the Stereophonics gig last night and parked in the Asda car park from around 2.30pm - 11pm. I read the signs before I left the car and it said " Maximum stay 2 hours on MATCH DAYS" I thought as it was close season and the was no football being played I would be ok. However, when I came back to my car I had a parking ticket for £60 or £30 if paid within 10 days.
Don't know if this is one of these hoax's trying to con me out of money or not.

Should I bother getting in contact with them etc?

Cheers,

Rich

marleyboy

Unless Stereophonics were playing at Asda, you had no right to park there. Asda car parks are for Asda shoppers, imagine if everyone who went to see Stereophonics opted to park at Asda.

peter_the_piper

innishmore wrote: »

Hi guys,
I went to the Stereophonics gig last night and parked in the Asda car park from around 2.30pm - 11pm. I read the signs before I left the car and it said " Maximum stay 2 hours on MATCH DAYS" I thought as it was close season and the was no football being played I would be ok. However, when I came back to my car I had a parking ticket for £60 or £30 if paid within 10 days.
Don't know if this is one of these hoax's trying to con me out of money or not.

Should I bother getting in contact with them etc?

Cheers,

Rich

How about paying the £10.00 you avoided paying to a charity then following the advice given on the parking thread?

biscit

I think the answer is, yes they can legally and morally ask for the money/charge.

It is, however, unlikely that they can enforce it through the courts.

Their land, their rules, and there is nothing wrong with that.

The advice on the main pages is

This is about unfair tickets

Of course, landowners have a right to charge for and police proper parking. If you’ve broken those rules, and you think the ticket isn’t exorbitant, I’d urge you to pay up.

Without seeing the notice you refer to I don't know whether the "2 hours on a matchday" means what you think it does, or whether it just means that shoppers can take all day about it on any other day. In my book using a supermarket carpark to stay several hours to watch a concert is deffo taking the mick.

adouglasmhor

innishmore wrote: »

Hi guys,
I went to the Stereophonics gig last night and parked in the Asda car park from around 2.30pm - 11pm. I read the signs before I left the car and it said " Maximum stay 2 hours on MATCH DAYS" I thought as it was close season and the was no football being played I would be ok. However, when I came back to my car I had a parking ticket for £60 or £30 if paid within 10 days.
Don't know if this is one of these hoax's trying to con me out of money or not.

Should I bother getting in contact with them etc?

Cheers,

Rich

Taking the mick or not all they can do is send more and more threatening letters then stop, do not reply, do not listen to any of the others on here and ignore all correspondence. https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/1363571

marleyboy

Supermarket parking limits 'breach' disability laws


Supermarkets have started to limit the amount of time customers can park

The UK's big supermarkets are breaking disability laws by having strict time limits in about two-thirds of their car parks, charities have told the BBC.
Private firms run some of the parking areas for Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury's and Morrisons and customers face penalty charges for overstaying.
But under the Disability Discrimination Act, businesses need to make extra allowances for disabled people.
The supermarkets say they will review their policies on disabled parking.
Supermarkets are increasingly using private parking firms and automatic number plate recognition systems to limit customer parking, often to two hours.
'Acknowledge problem'
The restrictions are to discourage drivers from abusing the free parking spaces.
BBC Breakfast contacted 200 large supermarkets from the four main chains.
Of the 124 that imposed parking time limits, about two-thirds said they did not give disabled people any extra time to shop, which is a breach of the law.
Britain's motorists are being stealth taxed by another dubious practice


Neil Herron
Motorist campaigner

Neil Coyle, from the charity Disability Alliance, said: "Supermarkets need to acknowledge there is a problem, and secondly, very quickly they need to ensure their car parking procedures conform with the law.
"You or I can stamp our feet and say how outrageous it is but at the end of the day there is a law that protects disabled people from this happening."
He said the supermarkets needed to end the "unfair charges" or "they can wait until someone takes a legal case and potentially face a considerable compensation case".
Motorist campaigner Neil Herron said supermarkets should get rid of the "draconian" and "legally questionable" private enforcement process and handle car parking in house.
"If someone is abusing the system, clamp them, charge them a £2.50 clamp release fee, handled by their own staff.
"Britain's motorists are being stealth taxed by another dubious practice," he said.
The BBC's Keith Doyle said all four supermarket chains have said they will review their policies on disabled parking.
"If you do need extra time, the advice is to go to customer services in the supermarkets - they have all told us they will make allowances, they will review their policies - so give customer services your registration number and hopefully you won't get a ticket," he said.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8488737.stm

My advice is not to listen to ANYONE on this thread "particularly when risking dubious advice", get legal advice before you risk any increased fee's.

There will come a time when supermarkets will have enough of having their free parking abused by people who think its acceptable to use their carpark to go to a concert or go to work down the road and will opt to charge customers via a pay n display scheme. Who can blame them, when folk think it perfectly satisfactory to "take the mick".

In the meantime, I would urge you to get advice from legal sources rather than anonymous forums that claim you can just skip it and move on, I am sure should it reach a court, simply saying to the judge "someone on a forum said don't pay it your honour" would not work in your favour very well.

jimbms

Will some of you please stop being so narrow minded about how you view people with blue badges, I hold a blue badge but I do not recieve any benefits, DLA etc even though I do qualify and have been informed of by our DHSS of such, for high rate mobility, this is because I work full time and receive an income far in access of many able bodied and do not need or want this, I obtained my badge via my consultant because of my inability to walk far, even so I only use the disabled space if no other is available, it is worth noting here you cannot park on double yellow lines with a badge. So I am not infact as many of you class blue badge holders a benefit scrounger out for a freebee, I am instead a hard working engineer who if I was in the UK would be paying more in tax due to your exorbitant rates than most of the ones who call me a scrounger earn, in fact I can almost guarantee everyone here uses a product that has one of my designs in it so you cannot even say I don't contribute to your society even though I don't live there. So get off your high horse and accept that people do get these badges for a genuine reason and often deserve them, as such please treat people who are less fortunate physically than you with respect.

Spartacus_Mills

marleyboy wrote: »

My advice is not to listen to ANYONE on this thread "particularly when risking dubious advice", get legal advice before you risk any increased fee's.

There will come a time when supermarkets will have enough of having their free parking abused by people who think its acceptable to use their carpark to go to a concert or go to work down the road and will opt to charge customers via a pay n display scheme. Who can blame them, when folk think it perfectly satisfactory to "take the mick".

In the meantime, I would urge you to get advice from legal sources rather than anonymous forums that claim you can just skip it and move on, I am sure should it reach a court, simply saying to the judge "someone on a forum said don't pay it your honour" would not work in your favour very well.

What a stupid generalisation. Have you bothered to look at the level and detail of advice handed out on sites like Pepipoo and this. It is not just a case of do not pay it and if it ever went to court (unlikely) a full defence would be pulled together. The defences I have seen on Pepipoo have been very good indeed.

It depends who is giving the advice. When it is someone like Sarahg1969, Colcbris or peter_the_piper who plainly know what they are talking about and have a proven track record then why not listen to them.