Parking Charges for residents

Donvito

I have been clamped a few times by the company that runs my housing association car park. Now we have been issued with parking permits which we are supposed to put on our cars. Now i have a few questions for in case I get clamped and towed the next time.

1: If my parking sticker fell from the dashboard onto the floor and I am able to point this out before the car gets towed, do I still have to pay the fine?

2: If question number one occurs but the car has already been towed, what rights do I have?

3: One of the housing association rules is that cars have to be taxed and insured. Where the DVLA gives two weeks grace before tax is renewed, is it legal for my car to be clamped and towed if I choose to exercise this two weeks grace.

4: And is such a rule legal(que 3) since I might want to sell the car and may have not found a buyer yet that the car park management company would just take my car for free.

5: When a car is towed from our car park, it incurs a charge of £40 a day till you have paid the fine. I should think there are many laws that this contravenes. Can anyone help me with a few of those.

6: After an accident, my car was in the garage for repairs so I was using a courtesy car. Shouldn't a note on my screen be enough not to get my car clamped and towed. Since the housing association takes a few days to issue a visitors parking permit for the courtesy car, that I will only be using for a day or two.

7: What to do when your car gets clamped at 7:00am on the first of september for example when your parking permit expired on the 31st of August.

What legal points address the above please. I need some help here people. And not just me but all of my neighbours except one who's parents work for the housing association in question

Neil_B

Donvito wrote: »

1: If my parking sticker fell from the dashboard onto the floor and I am able to point this out before the car gets towed, do I still have to pay the fine?

There is no 'fine'. read up on PPCs. There is no shortage of threads,

Donvito wrote: »

2: If question number one occurs but the car has already been towed, what rights do I have?

As above.

Donvito wrote: »

3: One of the housing association rules is that cars have to be taxed and insured. Where the DVLA gives two weeks grace before tax is renewed,

Wake up! It's 2009. There is NO grace period. You must display a tax disc or declare SORN immecdiately. The only grace, I believe, is for 'display' -- 5 days ? if taxed on-line.

Donvito wrote: »

is it legal for my car to be clamped and towed if I choose to exercise this two weeks grace.

Probably not for a private company unless you've signed up to some daft terms. Then maybe arguable.
However, I hear DVLA are now towing from just such private car parks. = yes.


4: And is such a rule legal(que 3) since I might want to sell the car and may have not found a buyer yet that the car park management company would just take my car for free.[/QUOTE] Que?

Donvito wrote: »

5: When a car is towed from our car park, it incurs a charge of £40 a day till you have paid the fine. I should think there are many laws that this contravenes. Can anyone help me with a few of those.

None apart from issues around the legality of rempval per answer 1.

Donvito wrote: »

6: After an accident, my car was in the garage for repairs so I was using a courtesy car. Shouldn't a note on my screen be enough not to get my car clamped and towed. Since the housing association takes a few days to issue a visitors parking permit for the courtesy car, that I will only be using for a day or two.

7: What to do when your car gets clamped at 7:00am on the first of september for example when your parking permit expired on the 31st of August.
What legal points address the above please. I need some help here people. And not just me but all of my neighbours except one who's parents work for the housing association in question

All --- as answer 1.

Your issue is generally around the usual behaviour of ppcs and the problem of HAs choosing to use them.

You don't get it yet. You can't attach 'fairness' and 'common sense' to these issues.

Have a read around.

Guys_Dad

Donvito wrote: »

I have been clamped a few times by the company that runs my housing association car park. Now we have been issued with parking permits which we are supposed to put on our cars. Now i have a few questions for in case I get clamped and towed the next time.

1: If my parking sticker fell from the dashboard onto the floor and I am able to point this out before the car gets towed, do I still have to pay the fine?

2: If question number one occurs but the car has already been towed, what rights do I have?

3: One of the housing association rules is that cars have to be taxed and insured. Where the DVLA gives two weeks grace before tax is renewed, is it legal for my car to be clamped and towed if I choose to exercise this two weeks grace.

4: And is such a rule legal(que 3) since I might want to sell the car and may have not found a buyer yet that the car park management company would just take my car for free.

5: When a car is towed from our car park, it incurs a charge of £40 a day till you have paid the fine. I should think there are many laws that this contravenes. Can anyone help me with a few of those.

6: After an accident, my car was in the garage for repairs so I was using a courtesy car. Shouldn't a note on my screen be enough not to get my car clamped and towed. Since the housing association takes a few days to issue a visitors parking permit for the courtesy car, that I will only be using for a day or two.

7: What to do when your car gets clamped at 7:00am on the first of september for example when your parking permit expired on the 31st of August.

What legal points address the above please. I need some help here people. And not just me but all of my neighbours except one who's parents work for the housing association in question

You raised this before in a previous post and got similar answers. Were you not happy with them?

Donvito

Those answers didn't address my issue legally like Neil B has just done. Thanks Neil. Just one more thing. In answer to Point 3, which was
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Originally Posted by Donvito
is it legal for my car to be clamped and towed if I choose to exercise this two weeks grace.

Probably not for a private company unless you've signed up to some daft terms. Then maybe arguable.

We as residents have not signed any agreements regarding the parking spaces provided. Maybe apart from new residents but I moved in and our tenancy agreement gave us free use of the car park. It's only in the last three years that the parking rules were brought in. Since we haven't signed anything agreeing to the new rules, esp the point above about allowing the ppc to remove our car if not taxed, does that make that rule illegal.

I'm more intersested in the legal points more than the common sense points because I want to write to the housing association to change it's terms of parking because I feel some of them contravene our rights as tenants. And I have a strong suspicion, someone in the housing association in coalition with one particular tenant are enjoying profits from the towing company because of the convenient way the towing company only shows up when someone is contravening the rules set out by the housing association, never as a routine check.

Thank you guys