Safe to ignore Tesco parking fine? (Highview Parking)

Half_way

if you can do this, Tesco deserve everything they get for using PPCs to 'manage' their car parks using the standard ppc method.

rew37 wrote: »

Yes you can, it's easy to find out who owns the land - give your local council planning team a call or contact the land registry direct. The council planning team will also be able to tell you what the parking conditions in Tesco's planning application was so could hit them with a double whammy.

UYou could also check to see if Tesco are paying the correct buisness rates on their car park, if they are charging to park ( via a thrid parts isuing parking charge notices) the the ratable value of the land will have to be adjusted.

The ignore advice has changed ever so slightly with the introducton of the protection of freedoms act, and using the popla system is 'playing it safe' however it should eb remembered that ntohing much has changed, before POFA/POPLa it was still a fake ticket issued under some very dubious circumstances, nad now isnce the introduction of POLA/PPOFA these charges still have the same status, however until its tried in a real court, and properly defended a more cautios line is recomended.

trisontana

So if Tesco say they don't own the land then who do they think has employed Highview? Do they think they just wandered in off the street and started issuing tickets off their own bat? Idiots!

Stroma

It's fair to say that if the situation below is the case, then they own the land, as they are used nationwide by them

Tesco - Highview
ASDA - Smart Parking

Coupon-mad

:T

Genuine response to you trisontana (off topic) and not being funny, I'm always easily pleased when a poster like yourself knows the correct old sporting expression 'off your own bat' (not OFF YOUR OWN BACK'!! grrrrr...I am becoming a grumpy old woman!! :mad:).

trisontana wrote: »

So if Tesco say they don't own the land then who do they think has employed Highview? Do they think they just wandered in off the street and started issuing tickets off their own bat? Idiots!

trisontana

Coupon-mad wrote: »

:T

Genuine response to you trisontana (off topic) and not being funny, I'm always easily pleased when a poster like yourself knows the correct old sporting expression 'off your own bat' (not OFF YOUR OWN BACK'!! grrrrr...I am becoming a grumpy old woman!! :mad:).

I think you and I are both "old school" when it comes to spelling and grammar. I must say that I cringe when posters don't seem to know the difference between "advice / advise" and "lose / loose".

Coupon-mad

'Practice' and 'Practise' amuses me - especially when my son's school teacher sent a letter home telling us to make sure the children 'practiced' their spellings!

:rotfl:

angelil

^^ technically 'practice' is the correct verb form in the US. However, as we're in the UK...!

Coupon-mad

angelil wrote: »

^^ technically 'practice' is the correct verb form in the US. However, as we're in the UK...!

Perzackerly!!

Stroma

Is it skool ?

antrobus

On the subject of whether or not Tesco own the land, I'd just like to say that it is entirely possible that Tesco staff are telling the truth when they say they don't own it - in the sense that Tesco Stores Limited (the company that employs the staff and operates the stores) may well not actually own the land. As I recall, Tesco plc holds its UK property assets through a byzantine network of LLPs, offshore trusts, and the like, so its very probable that somebody other than Tesco Stores Limited is the legal owner of the land.

I don't know whether this matters one iota as regards parking 'fines'. I suspect not, but you never know.