Parking eye charge at fistral beach car park. Advice needed please.

zx9rcraig

give_them_FA wrote: »

Hope you are making the most of the ZX9 in between showers...

The 9 is long gone. It's now a 10r and possibly up for grabs if the weather persists!!!!

Bloody blighty ;D

EHBA

give_them_FA wrote: »

They will not do anything about it, end of. A recent Superior Court ruling has established that parking companies cannot take anyone to court in respect of someone else's land.

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According to the Newquay Voice from 27/05/2011 "Nick Briant from Britannic Industries, which owns the Fistral International Surf Centre and adjacent car park, said: “A main reason for the change was that we found the previous system of clamping and ticketing too confrontational".

Confirmation, if it was needed, that Parking Eye do not own Fistral car park

Parking Eye sent me three letters for an overstay in Truro. I knew to ignore them and did not worry in the slightest.

PasturesNew

I completely ignored one of those about 12-13 months ago .... received the usual swathe of 'official looking' letters etc for about 6 months, then a gap and one final last hurrah from them about 3 months later.... then nothing.

I didn't respond to anything right from the start, just let them keep sending me the letters......

zx9rcraig

Yeah I will do and am doing. What a way to turn tourists away from local shops!

Kite2010

Parking Pie are useless, they charged an ambulance responding to a 999 call in a supermarket under the grounds that it didn't pay at the machine.

The fleet manager had a good laugh that day when the invoice arrived

Dianeruth

I too have just received a parking ticket after returning back home to Glasgow from a holiday in Cornwall. I paid £4.80 for 3 hours parking. Rushed back from the beach to the car park so I was back before the 3 hours. No one was on duty and I spent around 20 mins at the car getting ready to leave with my daughter and fed my dog. 2 weeks later I have received a letter demanding £90 for exceeding the time i was there by 20 minutes ! There is a photo of my car when I arrived and before I left. I am so glad I checked the Internet to read these other reports as I was very upset about it and didn't know whether to pay or not . I was going to appeal but reading other people's experiences, this is obviously a waste of time. I will just take the advice of others and ignore the letters. If I ever go on holiday to Cornwall again, I will completely avoid Newquay.

ManxRed

Most people avoid Newquay anyway, and its not because of the car park companies!!

Seriously though, yes, ignore them, and don't forget to tell everyone you know about this. Knowledge is power!

Kite2010

Dianeruth wrote: »

I too have just received a parking ticket after returning back home to Glasgow from a holiday in Cornwall. I paid £4.80 for 3 hours parking. Rushed back from the beach to the car park so I was back before the 3 hours. No one was on duty and I spent around 20 mins at the car getting ready to leave with my daughter and fed my dog. 2 weeks later I have received a letter demanding £90 for exceeding the time i was there by 20 minutes ! There is a photo of my car when I arrived and before I left. I am so glad I checked the Internet to read these other reports as I was very upset about it and didn't know whether to pay or not . I was going to appeal but reading other people's experiences, this is obviously a waste of time. I will just take the advice of others and ignore the letters. If I ever go on holiday to Cornwall again, I will completely avoid Newquay.

One of the problems with Parking Spy is that they use the cameras to determine if you've "overstayed". Just ignore them.

HO87

zx9rcraig wrote: »

What a way to turn tourists away from local shops!

Just as well that you didn't go down to Lamorna Cove (near Newlyn) or The Lizard where you could well have been preyed upon by Searchlight Security Parking Solutions or gone into some car parks in Camborne where Armtrac would have been all over you like a bad rash.

esmerobbo

Cornish tourist board must love em! How many have decided as above and just don't go back because of these companies.