Euro Car Parks 7 day notice vehicle removal

esmerobbo

Besides the ins and outs of the car park situation, what did the police say or do. Euro on behalf of Sainsbury's would have the right to ask your wife to leave, as any landowner could! However that's all they could do, they do not have the right to intimidate your wife and child putting them in fear!

There was a thread on Pepipoo were Euro gave someone a 7 day notice of a ban from a car park outside the OP's address. It turned out the "car park" was a public highway!

Someone has posted interesting information on this car park on Pepipoo! http://forums.pepipoo.com/index.php?showtopic=67596&hl=

"The number of car parking spaces should be maintained. Parking should be available to all users of the town centre".

taffy056

Also they can't tow vehicles without the signs for doing so as I said earlier in this thread, they are not acting legally , and with the ban of clamping coming in they face huge fines if they try this once it comes into force.

What I would do is go to tesco/asda/morrisons whichever is closest and do a weekly shop there, and take the receipt with you to this meeting, and show the sainsbury manager this, tell him you roughly spend that each week, if they are prepared to lose that, and the fact that you will be telling all family and friends not to shop there as you get physically threatened, and the local and national press would love a story how a mum and child were chased around a car park and the police had to be called.

AlexisV

You may wish to record the meeting e.g. iPhone set to record in your pocket.

HO87

As I have just posted on the mirror thread to this on Pepipoo, regulating access to premises in the way that the two "heavies" appear to have done amounts to manned guarding a licensable activity within the terms of the Private Security Industry Act 2001. If indeed ECP have offered this service to Sainsbury's then there may well be multiple breaches of the Act. Report them and the two heavies to the SIA.

anewman

Coupon-mad wrote: »

As you say they cannot 'victimise' a CAR because it could have been driven by ME or anyone else with fully-comp insurance each time it 'contravened' their rules

I have drive other cars cover on my third party fire theft policy, so it's not only fully comp policies. Also note, I am sure there are fully comp policies which do not give drive other cars cover, it must be clearly stated on the policy certificate - so do not automatically assume because you're fully comp you can drive other cars with permission.

If ECP have to resort to these bully boy tactics, it goes to prove they can't or won't, enforce their mickey mouse tickets in court. And HO87 makes an excellent point - one I would definitely tell Sainsbury's as I'm sure they'd hate to be privy to knowingly allowing criminal activity to happen on their land.

TrickyWicky

HO87 wrote: »

As I have just posted on the mirror thread to this on Pepipoo, regulating access to premises in the way that the two "heavies" appear to have done amounts to manned guarding a licensable activity within the terms of the Private Security Industry Act 2001. If indeed ECP have offered this service to Sainsbury's then there may well be multiple breaches of the Act. Report them and the two heavies to the SIA.

Only clamping and removal needs an SIA licence. To operate, marshall, patrol, monitor a car park does not need an SIA licence. They are classed as in-house staff.

The same goes for events - non sia licenced staff can operate car parks at events too Link

If however the evil ECP are threatening to remove a vehicle from the premises, they must have signs up and the staff must be SIA licenced as a vehicle immobiliser. Some parking companies think they are untouchable and will still immobilise a vehicle.

memphis73

As ever with this forum, I am blown away by the care, consideration and help that complete strangers extend to people who are or have been threatened.

Thankyou all so much for your contributions, I am going to seek independent legal advice, but we will certainly not be fobbed off with a quick apology.

I'll keep this post updated with any progress.