Private car park? no clamping or enforcement

Thea

Had to get this one of my chest. Just been blocked in the car park behind work by this silly old !!!! because i dared to stay late at tidy up at work.

During the day this does not seem to be a problem. And yes it does say private parking on the bigger entrance but not where i parked.

It was a group of men in some choir. Everyone else was really polite but this old cogger decided to read me the riot act. I gave as good as i got!

I should not have been parked so thats not the issue. But what are my rights to having the car moved? Can i just be blocked in like thats and its tough luck walk home? At least if clamping was in place (not that im wishing for it to be started) but i could have just paid my fine and left peacefully

stewieg

Not sure that anyone has the right to block anyone in. this silly old person should have had more sense than to do this. Its not as though you committed a criminal offence. :beer:

The_Slithy_Tove

stewieg wrote: »

Its not as though you committed a criminal offence.

Though the blocker-inner (if that's a legit term) is in danger of committing a public order offence should the police get interested.

TrickyWicky

Thea wrote: »

At least if clamping was in place (not that im wishing for it to be started) but i could have just paid my fine and left peacefully

And then you would of been here whining about being clamped and being forced to pay an extortionate fee, can you get your money back etc

Seriously, just don't park where you shouldn't and you won't give people a reason to complain OR run a PPC enforcement service that clamps or tickets. It's because of people like you that PPCs exist and have become a menace to the motorist.

Sorry if that sounds harsh in any way, it's not meant to but it is the truth.

muckybutt

"And yes it does say private parking on the bigger entrance but not where i parked."

Theres a clue there somewhere, I take it you can read ? PRIVATE means by definition : Belonging to a particular person or persons, as opposed to the public or the government: private property.

In tother words if it isnt anything to do with you and you dont have permission to park there THEN DONT.

HO87

TrickyWicky wrote: »

It's because of people like you that PPCs exist and have become a menace to the motorist.

Come on TW you know better than to peddle that old PPC claptrap. You are addressing the symptom not the disease.

The reason there is pressure on parking spaces is because the government have been enforcing a policy of restricting available space in an effort to push people onto public transport. Originally implemented by NuLab it is being continued by the two boys. The problem is that the second wing of the policy - growing and developing public transport - got lost in the mix. In other words it was too expensive.

This was all designed to be part of the much-vaunted "integrated transport policy" which was, ultimately, to include road charging. The potential revenue to be made from road charging is so great they daren't yet ditch the crap that went with it just because they can't work out a reasonable means of charging LGV's.

PPC's saw an opening and exploited it in much the same way as a burglar might when he sees a window inadvertently left open by a householder.

Making the excuse for them that there was a need is to ignore the background. Unfortunately the BPA long ago latched onto the quackery of the integrated policy and carefully pour that oil into the ears of politicians who continue to follow the pound signs in the east of road charging (lucrative consultancies, directorships, advisors etc etc).

Please don't get hooked on the idea that there is a need for PPC's. They created the "need" in the first place. The vast majority of car parks they profess to manage worked perfectly well before they became involved and would do so today if they walked away. PPC's are simply self-serving tax-farmers. Don't dress them up to be providers of a service. To do so would be the equivalent of describing burglars as redistributors of wealth.