B&Q Parking Charges

TetrisRock

Has anyone ever been fined for parking in B&Q's car park for whatever reason. My friend has been given a £125 fine for parking in there (the other night we stopped in there to use a mobile, and have a chat and a cigarette)

Has anyone else had experience of these specific fines? Was anyone able to knock it down a bit or get out of them?

geordie_joe

TetrisRock wrote: »

Has anyone ever been fined for parking in B&Q's car park for whatever reason. My friend has been given a £125 fine for parking in there (the other night we stopped in there to use a mobile, and have a chat and a cigarette)

Has anyone else had experience of these specific fines? Was anyone able to knock it down a bit or get out of them?

You didn't get fined, they just sent you an invoice.

See here

http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/forum/parking-traffic-offences/65341-private-parking-companies-charges.html

geoffky

TELL YOUR M8 NOT TO PAY.....GO HERE
http://forums.pepipoo.com/index.php?showforum=30

iNath

I won't be anything to do with B&Q, just an external parking company. Do as above posters have said, it's an invoice - do not pay!

McKneff

ignore it, and dont admit to being the driver, they can only give an invoice to the driver and you are not forced to give the drivers name. it is unenforceable. See the pepipoo website

TomsMom

I'm curious. Did an invoice get posted to you? Or did a patrolman/parking warden/whoever give it to you whilst you were there?

Only reason I ask is, if it was given to you whilst you were in the car park, couldn't you have got out the car and gone into the store (whether you intended to shop there or not), thereby making your use of their carpark legitimate.

TetrisRock

My friend got the letter through the post. We weren't stopped whilst we were there. The reason there is a fine is because we were in there after trading hours which means we couldn't have just went into the store and made our car park use legitimate.

All this legal stuff is good, but does it count for Scotland too? Because that's where I live so...

TomsMom

TetrisRock wrote: »

My friend got the letter through the post. We weren't stopped whilst we were there. The reason there is a fine is because we were in there after trading hours which means we couldn't have just went into the store and made our car park use legitimate.

Blimey, that's sneaky! And a bit mean. You weren't exactly taking up a parking space that someone legitimately visiting the store would have wanted.

All this legal stuff is good, but does it count for Scotland too? Because that's where I live so....

Sorry, can't help there. Maybe you could ask on the pepipoo site???

AndysDad

I had the same thing after parking in a B&Q carpark in Grimsby.As has been pointed out its not a fine its a PCN.Whatever you do ,don't pay it.We were asked for £75 to start with and it eventually went up to about £300 and they passed it over to their solicitors (who were in the same office).We wrote to them saying that the driver was not the registered owner (True) and they eventually gave up.Good Luck.

kaysmith87

Parking "fines" from anything other than goverments fall under contract law - a contract between the driver of the vehicle and the parking company. This is unenforceable in UK courts as it cannot be proven who was the driver.

I work for a contract hire company where the cars are registed to us and leased to cusomers. We get them through all the time and just send them a letter saying "we own the car however your contract is with the driver and under the data protection act we cannot give you thier deatails" basicly telling them to buggar off!