MSE news: The £95 parking ticket for taking too long to spend

Buddy_G

I had a similar experience using Iceland's car park in Paisley. As I returned to car, man was about to issue a £50 fine. In his eyes he did me a big favour by not issuing it. I was carrying only my shopping from Iceland but as the queues were long, I was over time! I emailed Iceland head office but got no satisfaction. Have not, and will not, ever shop there again!

doodlebug1_2

Regarding parent and child spaces. I think they should be banned, that way less children will be able to run around these shops, out of control. Where is H.S.E. when you want them. Better still, ban kids altogether!:mad:

Curly_Chick

A couple of years ago I got a parking ticket from my local council for "failing to display my pre-paid voucher" - the reason the warden couldn't see the voucher - there was 5mins of snow - which was slush on the windscreen!!! I appealed the ticket and they sent me a letter saying as a "courticey" they would resind the ticket and there was a photo of the "obscured" voucher - which you could see!!! In my letter I pointed out that I had forfuiled my responsablity to display the voucher as per the regulations but I could not be considered responsible for the weather conditions that left the ticket obscured!!!!

There are also a bunch of supermarkets and even a couple of pubs around my area that have the privet "parking police" who lurk in the corners smoking like chimeys and waiting for an oppertunity to catch you out!!! I make a point of avoiding these retailers and venues and shop in places where I am not pressured to buy in a set time frame!

krysus

As it's private land, can you just not cover your number plates before entering the car park.
Once you've left the car park, immediately before joining the public road, uncover your plates?!?!

EDIT: A perfect excuse to fit those James Bond-style revolving plates!!

baggie58

Don't forget Aldi now changed their 'rules' so that parking limited to 90 mins before a charges is levied .......:mad:

love-hearts

In Ponders End, North London, the Netto car park only allows you to park for 60 minutes, how are you supposed to shop in Netto, Farmfoods, Bratano and Poundstretchers within an hour, imo it's not possible.

Andy_Spoo_2

Surely, the way they get your address is via your number plate and therefore the DVLA. Isn't that a breach of the Data Protection Act? I thought that the only people who could get data from the DVLA without a court order was the police.

Can the DVLA really give out our personal data just 'willy nilly'? I don't remember agreeing to that when I gave my data to them?????

trisontana

Andy_Spoo wrote: »

Surely, the way they get your address is via your number plate and therefore the DVLA. Isn't that a breach of the Data Protection Act? I thought that the only people who could get data from the DVLA without a court order was the police.

Can the DVLA really give out our personal data just 'willy nilly'? I don't remember agreeing to that when I gave my data to them?????

Not so I'm afraid. As long as a company can "prove" it needs this data all it has to do is hand over a few quid to the DVLA and they can get the details of the registered owner. Not a very satisfactory state of affairs and one I think even the Data Commissioner is not happy about. I suppose the DVLA thinks it's a nice little earner for itself.

Coblcris

You did agree. Re-read the DVLA documents.

Crabman

Andy_Spoo wrote: »

Surely, the way they get your address is via your number plate and therefore the DVLA. Isn't that a breach of the Data Protection Act? I thought that the only people who could get data from the DVLA without a court order was the police.

Can the DVLA really give out our personal data just 'willy nilly'? I don't remember agreeing to that when I gave my data to them?????

The corrupt agency we refer to as the DVLA make £millions out of this scam every year because Section 27 of the Road Vehicles (Registration and Licencing) Regulations (2002) does not define "reasonable cause".

Therefore they consider it to be their role to define 'reasonable cause'. Funnily enough the way they define it allows them to make vast profits from of the companies that in turn harrass, lie, threaten and in clamping cases blackmail members of the public.