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

sarahg1969

CRANKY40 wrote: »

I need a larger space to I can see to my childs safety harness without taking the door off the car next to me.

You need the larger space? So, if you'd had your child 15 years ago, you would have been housebound? If there are no P&C spaces available, do you have to turn round and go home?

Come now; we parents don't NEED P&C spaces. They might be handy, but in reality they are not, in the majority of cases, a necessity.

Someone who has a larger vehicle might need a larger space. As might a fat person. Or an old person whose mobility is not what it once was.

uktim29

sarahg1969 wrote: »

As might a fat person. Or an old person whose mobility is not what it once was.

I saw something like that once in a supermarket car park. This woman asked if a car was mine as I was walking out. I said no. She explained she was too big to fit through the gap either side of her car and asked if I could reverse it out for her so she could get in it!:rotfl:

sarahg1969

uktim29 wrote: »

I saw something like that once in a supermarket car park. This woman asked if a car was mine as I was walking out. I said no. She explained she was too big to fit through the gap either side of her car and asked if I could reverse it out for her so she could get in it!:rotfl:

That was me.


:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

CRANKY40

sarahg1969 wrote: »

You need the larger space? So, if you'd had your child 15 years ago, you would have been housebound? If there are no P&C spaces available, do you have to turn round and go home?

Come now; we parents don't NEED P&C spaces. They might be handy, but in reality they are not, in the majority of cases, a necessity.

Someone who has a larger vehicle might need a larger space. As might a fat person. Or an old person whose mobility is not what it once was.

15 years ago I wouldn't have had a car. As I said, mostly I don't take my child shopping if I can help it, but yes, I do need a larger space so I can lean into the car and fasten his harness. He's too small to do it himself. I have good flexibility, and I still struggle sometimes. The other problem with the smaller spaces is bad parkers. I can park somewhere, have plenty of room to get him out, yet when I come back, someone else has parked on or over the white line and is so close I can't reach to get him in the car. The larger spaces ensure this doesn't happen.

Yes, I have turned round and gone elsewhere when there was nowhere to park where I could easily get him out of the car. Some things just aren't worth the hassle. I have a mental list of places to park where it's easier to get him out, next to pavements and that kind of thing. As I said, I don't mind a walk, I just appreciate the wider space.

As for fat people, I have to admit that when I was heavily pregnant, I just couldn't get out of the car in a normal space, I had to get out and let dh park the car, so maybe there should just be general use wider spaces at the far end of the car park. There's probably lots of reasons why people could need some extra space. Goodness knows I see enough people parked across two ordinary spaces.

Tim_Deegan

CRANKY40 wrote: »

Goodness knows I see enough people parked across two ordinary spaces.

For some reason BMW's often need more than one space

Tim_Deegan

parkerparker wrote: »

Hmmm.....interesting you obviously like the idea of people being "prosecuted". Very sad

Only ignorant people who think that rules don't apply to them, so obviously think they are above the law. These people need bringing down a peg or two so that they learn to respect other people, rather than just thinking about themselves, and being too lazy to walk across a car park.

Tim_Deegan

sarahg1969 wrote: »

You need the larger space? So, if you'd had your child 15 years ago, you would have been housebound? If there are no P&C spaces available, do you have to turn round and go home?

No you would find another parking space. This is why many car park owners have now seen sense and provided a limited number of P&C spaces. Supermarkets use them so that they are more family friendly, and so that people don't go somewhere else where they can park. I should think that they also had many complaints from people whos cars had been damaged because parking spaces were too narrow.

You also need to take into account that 15 years ago supermarkets hadn't taken over as many towns, putting independent shops out of business. So it is more recently that people have to drive to do their shopping because they do a whole weeks shopping in one store.

Also people are becoming more lazy, so more people drive when they might have walked 15 years ago.

sarahg1969 wrote: »

Come now; we parents don't NEED P&C spaces. They might be handy, but in reality they are not, in the majority of cases, a necessity.

Someone who has a larger vehicle might need a larger space. As might a fat person. Or an old person whose mobility is not what it once was.

I'm sure we have all been in a parking space that is so tight that we have to squeeze out of a tiny gap because we can only open the door about 8". Well it is impossible to get a baby seat out of a gap that small.

My youngest is 3 (nearly 4), so he is in a booster seat rather than a child seat with a harness. So if the space between the cars is tight, then all I have to do is lean over my seat and unbuckle the seat belt from inside the car. So I don't nee a P&C space, so wouldn't take up a space that is actually essential for a parent with a younger child.

uktim29

Tim_Deegan wrote: »

You also need to take into account that 15 years ago supermarkets hadn't taken over as many towns, putting independent shops out of business.

Thats just a complete myth. Every high street I walk down has just as many shops as it did 15 years ago. If you go to a high street you'll find independent shops. If you go to a Supermarket because everythings under one roof then you won't come across independent shops because you haven't looked for them.

Tim_Deegan

uktim29 wrote: »

Thats just a complete myth. Every high street I walk down has just as many shops as it did 15 years ago. If you go to a high street you'll find independent shops. If you go to a Supermarket because everythings under one roof then you won't come across independent shops because you haven't looked for them.

Well I don't know where you live, but in my experience (not a myth) many towns have been killed off by large supermarkets opening. 15 years ago the small town I live in had a greengrocers, 2 butchers, a fish mongers, 3 clothes shops, 2 off licences, 2 x electrical stores. Now out of these only 1 butchers remains because the others couldn't compete with the Tescos Hypermarket.

peter_the_piper

uktim29 wrote: »

Thats just a complete myth. Every high street I walk down has just as many shops as it did 15 years ago. If you go to a high street you'll find independent shops. If you go to a Supermarket because everythings under one roof then you won't come across independent shops because you haven't looked for them.

In our town they are mainly pound shops and charity ones. Not that long ago we used to deliver to 16 veg and ironmonger shops, now its only 2, not because they don't want what we supply but they have closed and no other shops of the same type have opened up to replace them. Now Asda want to open in an erea without large supermarkets and that will kill off that area for the small shopkeeper.