Aldi Facebook Page Kicking Off after Parking Eye LBAs

Fruitcake

Northlakes wrote: »

I was next to this Aldi car park last Wednesday and didn't see the ANPR cameras. Have they been installed yet?

It won't hurt to ask if a planning application has been made to cover any potential future installation.

NWSteve

Northlakes wrote: »

I was next to this Aldi car park last Wednesday and didn't see the ANPR cameras. Have they been installed yet?

Not yet- still just a pole with nothing on top. For now...

bazster

Awesome Steve, I look forward to hearing the reply.

patman99

I would suggest that a large group of people get together and each submit an identicle letter to the Council planning department.

From my own experiances, Councils tend to fob-off single complainants, but when there are a large number of complaints from several individuals, then they tend to act upon them.

bazster

patman99 wrote: »

From my own experiances, Councils tend to fob-off single complainants, but when there are a large number of complaints from several individuals, then they tend to act upon them.

If you get fobbed off by a council officer your next port-of-call is your councillors. Councillors don't fob you off (they want your vote!), and council officers don't fob off councillors.

Bantex_2

Over 2000 posts.
Aldi really could not give a stuff is the message.

bazster

Bantex wrote: »

Over 2000 posts.
Aldi really could not give a stuff is the message.

Aldi/ParkingEye have been stopped in their tracks at several sites by posters here and elsewhere who have identified contraventions of planning conditions and/or s.106 agreements. Whether Aldi gives a stuff or not, this will have saved hundreds, if not thousands, of people from receiving ParkingEye fake fines and all the intimidation that ensues. NWSteve may be on his way to sorting out Aldi at yet another site where they appear to have flouted planning conditions.

This thread also keeps folks here interested in the Aldi Facebook page, where contributions from this direction will have helped hundreds more fight off Aldi/ParkingEye with complaints to Aldi and/or PoPLA appeals.

All of which has infinitely more value than a single damn thing you've ever posted here.

NWSteve

I've tweaked the letter slightly, and today it is going first class post to the Head of Lancaster Council's planning service.

Let's see what we get back- I'll post up details when I get them.

Thanks to everyone here for their advice and encouragement!

patman99

The only problem with the site occupied by my nearest Aldi is that it was a Sainsburys back in the 1980's, then an MFI from around 1989 until about 2 months before they went under, soits not as easy to search for the planning permissions as they are buried deep within the Council's archives.

AFAIK, the onl changes applied for were change of class (from furniture to food) & change of use to upper floor for use as a church.

bazster

patman99 wrote: »

The only problem with the site occupied by my nearest Aldi is that it was a Sainsburys back in the 1980's, then an MFI from around 1989 until about 2 months before they went under, soits not as easy to search for the planning permissions as they are buried deep within the Council's archives.

AFAIK, the onl changes applied for were change of class (from furniture to food) & change of use to upper floor for use as a church.

You hardly ever find parking-related planning conditions for shops which were already retail units before Aldi took over. New builds offer much richer pickings. However, if they're sticking up new poles for the ParkingEye scameras they do need permission for those.