Private Parking Tickets discussion

trisontana

peter_the_piper wrote: »

I heard on the radio this morning that the 4 big supermarkets are being investigated over their private parking arrangements. Apparently it because they do not give sufficient time for disabled persons to park and do their shopping. Love to know how they will wriggle out of this one. APNR won't detect a disabled person on a car, and not have applied for a blue badge. It would be discrimination to preclude others and only allow the BB cars.

BBC Breakfast feature.

fb1969

I saw the item on BBC Breakfast and initially thought it would be a good piece.

Sadly there was no mention that these charges are not legally enforcable and there was no mention that the Blue Badge Scheme is not valid on private land. "Experts" included a lawyer and someone from a Disability Rights Group.

I have no problem with the stores allocating spaces for the disabled, but I am baffled why the parent and child spaces are more conveniently placed than the disabled ones. My local Sainsburys has parent spaces round the edge, yet disabled have to cross traffic!

sheers

Thanks for your advice - I did phone once to discuss not being charged - does this matter?

I am worried I can't afford to pay the £90.

Thanks again.

trisontana

sheers wrote: »

Thanks for your advice - I did phone once to discuss not being charged - does this matter?

I am worried I can't afford to pay the £90.

Thanks again.

It doesn't matter. Just don't contact them again.

peter_the_piper

fb1969 wrote: »

I saw the item on BBC Breakfast and initially thought it would be a good piece.

Sadly there was no mention that these charges are not legally enforcable and there was no mention that the Blue Badge Scheme is not valid on private land. "Experts" included a lawyer and someone from a Disability Rights Group.

I have no problem with the stores allocating spaces for the disabled, but I am baffled why the parent and child spaces are more conveniently placed than the disabled ones. My local Sainsburys has parent spaces round the edge, yet disabled have to cross traffic!

The thing you must bear in mind is that there are a lot of disabled people who are not able to complete shopping in 2 hours but are not entitled to nor want a blue badge. If the BB was to be the criteria(it has been mooted that all BB areas might be legally enforceable at some time in the future) then a lot of people would still be discriminated against. Its a whole bag of worms being opened up. He He.
I hope this would apply to shopping centres as well as one locally has 12 shops and you have 3 hours to do your shopping in (including having a game of bowls and a swim) then you get clamped, not just a charge.

mah8619

Coupon-mad wrote: »

Ok, when a ticket is issued by what I suspect is a private parking company at a railway station, you need only to check the ticket to see what is says about how to appeal.

NOT because you should appeal (hah! it's a private company and the word appeal shouldn't even be mentioned in the same sentence)! But because the appeal info will tell you whether this ticket was issued under genuine Railway Byelaws or not.

Scenario 1 : The ticket says any appeal must be sent to the private parking company, usually at a P O Box address. In which case you can safely ignore it and any letters the company send you. There is no fine to pay and nothing will happen after their letters die out, believe that this is a scam, read other similar threads.

Scenario 2 : The ticket says any appeal has to go to the Magistrates' Court. If it says this then it's a proper ticket which can't be ignored. In which case treat it like a Council parking ticket and either pay it or consider appealing it if the signs & lines did not say you couldn't park outside of a designated bay.

Scenario 3 : It's possible it was issued by the Council? Was it? In which case same advice as scenario 2!

More often than not it will be scenario 1. Which have you got?

the ticket says" if you wish to dispute your liability to pay a parking penalty a statement giving an explanation must be made in writing mersyrail electrics 2002 ltd,po box 6576,liverpool"
it also quotes byelaw 14 section 129 on the railways act 1993

peter_the_piper

mah8619 wrote: »

the ticket says" if you wish to dispute your liability to pay a parking penalty a statement giving an explanation must be made in writing mersyrail electrics 2002 ltd,po box 6576,liverpool"
it also quotes byelaw 14 section 129 on the railways act 1993

It seems this is a genuine rail ticket and its worth a quick appeal, but in the end I expect you'll have to pay up or go to magistrates court which will be more expensive.

sheers

Thanks for all the advice - I would really love to see what letters to expect from parkingeye as this would re-assure me but when I click on this link it doesn't seem to take me to the right page.
I have just recieved another letter giving photo evidence.
Also, parking eye are saying this is a PCN - is this different from a parking charge from a private company?

bromsgrovebarry

Parking Eye don't do court. Ignore them and put the money to better use. As for photo evidence, that's a laugh, their dodgy cameras are incapable of providing reliable evidence.

euan.pyper

My wife received a parking fine from "Town & City Parking Ltd" - I think a private company. This was for parking in a Parent and Child bay. She parked there for about 20 minutes and did so as a result of her car being damaged on a previous occasion in a normal bay, which has less surrounding space. She has ignored the initial ticket however received a solicitor's letter giving 7 days notice. I would be obliged if someone could advise, based on a similar incident.

Many thanks
Euan