Parking Eye - Newbie help please

jpsdont

As far as I could find out the car park is owned by the Town Council, and you could be dead and they would still want money off you, with all the cutbacks, it is not worth the paper in trying to talk to them.

Coupon-mad

Can't be the Council who took on PE as they never work for Councils.

The site MUST be leased to another firm - an onsite large retailer, Development company, Housing Association, University even? If the info I have found below leads nowhere then ask the Council who to complain to about Parking Eye as you 'think this car park is owned by the Council' and hopefully they will put you straight or tell you how to find out who leases it, who developed the site.

MAYBE they get complaints all the time and will forward a complaint if you email it to them (worth a try anyway)? Ask for the Planning Dept and ask if they can tell you who runs/or which development group applied for consent for the pay and display car park that consent was provided for back around 2005/6 as part of the Local Plan. If no luck, find out from the Council, simply, which ward the car park is within and contact the Councillor for that ward and ask him to complain or find out something for you to complain.

You must be very proactive as this is Parking Eye and they do steamroller cases to court. It will NOT be the Council who contracted PE - and you need to find out who did (NB: PE won't tell you).

I had a quick Google and you can continue where I left off.

May be nothing, may not be the right car park, but I found Ace Properties (estate and managing agents) rent parking spaces at Lawson Street and there's an email addy and phone number:

http://www.ace-properties.co.uk/default.aspx

And if it's the right place, I found that work started in 2007 I think; read Preston Guy's comments on this forum, where he mentions Lawson Street and the multi storey car park and apartments development in 2007 - but there's loads of other developments talked about too so you will have to look to find the relevant bits:

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/archive/index.php/t-234887-p-5.html (that is ONLY page 5 of 17 pages, some very building-obsessed posters there!)

For example, Preston Guy says on March 28th, 2007: 'There was a small article in last nights Evening Post saying that Construction Partnership Ltd has got the contract for the apartment building...and that a Preston firm, Downtown Living {development firm}, is drawing up plans for the building...'

http://www.constructionpartnership.co.uk/project.asp?id=30

See on CPUK's website it says the client for 'The Room' apartment block (near the old Police Station if it still exists?) was indeed 'Downtown Living'. It was finished in 2008 if this is the site that includes that car park?

http://www.theroomapartments.com/news/2/

''A Preston development company has responded to the growing pressures on would-by homebuyers with an innovative 'rent to buy' scheme to help more people get a foot on the property ladder. The offer by Downtown Living at its flagship The Room apartment scheme in Preston is one of the first of its kind in the UK. Its Lawson Street location sits on the edge of the ambitious £750 million Tithebarn scheme, led by property giant Grosvenor, which will include the creation of major retail, residential and leisure facilities in the heart of the city.''

Hopefully not bad research for starters, for a Southerner like me who's never been to Preston!!

And if that's not the right place then you can do some more research to find the right one...if it's part of the Tithebarn scheme by Grosvenor that will be easy to Google.


HTH

jpsdont

thank you for looking, the majority of that information relate to a new building at the opposite end of the road (long road) and does not relate to where this car park is, but I did find this Planning Permission : but it still does not state the owners

06/2013/0440
Change of use from car park ancillary to former police station to Pay and
Display car park
Type: Full application
Officer: Janet Filbin
Ward: Town Centre
Parish:
Upper Car Park Lawson Street Preston
25/06/2013
Determination Type:
Delegated
Applicant /Agent
ParkingEye Ltd 40 Eaton Avenue Matrix Park Buckshaw Village Chorley PR7 7NA

Coupon-mad

So it's Town Centre ward, so ask the Councillor to help you understand who runs this place (it will be a developer, not Parking Eye).

jpsdont

I have found and emailed Janet Filbin to whom the application was sent and await her reply, but in the mean time is there any stock template reply I can send back to parking eye

as always big thanks for help