Woodfields Retail Park Bury

Myriddin

Dickie_Ekim wrote: »

Please could anyone advise on what I should do? Where does this leave me, apart from probably getting nowhere!
Many thanks

Go here: http://www.woodfieldsretailpark.co.uk/contact
Fill out the form explaining you were a genuine customer who visited twice in one day and think there has been some sort of mistake made with the APNR system. Politely mention that genuine customers should not be treated this way and you are mindful never to visit the site again.

The form goes straight to Rochelle Bailey who is the landowner's property manager. She will very likely arrange for the charge to be cancelled. It worked for me recently.

Dickie_Ekim

Hi
I think it was you who replied to my enquiry a few weeks ago regarding my Parking Eye Charge Notice. I'm new to this forum malarkey and not doing too well finding my way around this site. I can't find the reply!!! It gave me a template and also a further name and email address of a much higher bigwig. I parked at Woodfields in my lunch hour one day for less than ten minutes then returned that evening to do my shopping. I appealed obviously but they're hv none of it!
I'd appreciate that address and template agin if it's not too much trouble?
Many thanks

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Fbb69

Hi. I followed your advice on the "invoice" I received last Sat. I write to Rochelle and she said if I could provide a receipt from my visit to Woodfields that day she would instruct them to cancel the fine.
I sent her a scan from Tesco fuel and it worked!
Many thanks for the advice.
Regards
Toni

Hazza123

I work at this retail park so just wanted to let you know that Parking Eye has been employed solely by British Land to manage this site for them. There is no joint ownership of the land and contract of Parking Eye. All retailers on this site pay rent to the landlord (British Land) and this includes Tesco. So all your hatred should just be concentrated on British Land instead of trying to punish the retailers too by boycotting our shops. We get nothing out of the agreement between British Land and Parking Eye other than the complaints and loss of trade that this has caused. Has it ever occurred to you that the employees who work on this may have received tickets too from parking eye as it came as much as shock to us too.

This forum is a great idea though, and I will point people in this direction now to get help and advice

ezerscrooge wrote: »

Get ready for a stream of newbies in about 2 weeks time - Parking Eye have just set up site at Woodfields Retail Park, Bury. ANPR cameras in place, signs up and demanding £85 from those who fail to comply with the terms of parking.

Campaign is starting with the retailers and local press. We recently got rid of UKPC from Moorgate, now another (much bigger) car park is infested.

Umkomaas

Thanks for the heads up on the landowner and their contract with PE. Your employer (and other retailers on site) should be telling British Land very clearly that PE is costing them business.

I'm afraid one of the advices of the forum is to avoid any retail park that employs private parking companies. The retailers really must press on the landowner rather than allowing their customers to be persecuted by a PPC. If your employer is not going to defend their own customers, who would you expect to do it?

Out of interest - what is your estimate of the number (percentage) of 'fly' parkers using the car park, compared to genuine customers now that PE has started farming your car park?

Unicorn51

I wouldn't feel too sorry for the retailers.

The likes of Tesco and McDonalds invite the same PPC to manage their sites when they are the landowners.

Northlakes

Hazza123 wrote: »

I work at this retail park so just wanted to let you know that Parking Eye has been employed solely by British Land to manage this site for them. There is no joint ownership of the land and contract of Parking Eye. All retailers on this site pay rent to the landlord (British Land) and this includes Tesco. So all your hatred should just be concentrated on British Land instead of trying to punish the retailers too by boycotting our shops. We get nothing out of the agreement between British Land and Parking Eye other than the complaints and loss of trade that this has caused. Has it ever occurred to you that the employees who work on this may have received tickets too from parking eye as it came as much as shock to us too.

This forum is a great idea though, and I will point people in this direction now to get help and advice

Thanks for the contribution.

The majority of problems I have seen exhibited by posters on this forum have been simple overstays through lack of awareness, 'double dipping' and the odd 'chancer'. Most posters have been ignorant of the situation they have inadvertently let themselves in for. Retailers are sometimes helpful but from what I have seen most shrug their shoulders and say 'we have no control over the car park'.

Both the landowner and the retailer are the losers over the long term as a recent survey showed that over 50% of penalised motorists never return to that car particular car park. This was all well and good before the internet revolution, when retail space was at a premium, but that is no longer the case. Town centres are dying aided and abetted by both by greedy councils and landlords.

If anything good came out of the recent Beavis case it was the disclosure that PPC's were paying landowners for 'fishing rights' to issue PCN's. Large sums of money are passing hands and some unfortunate retailers will feel the pain first.
Retailers should be claiming a rent reduction where your customers are persecuted.

We can do little except make a fuss and boycott certain retail parks, retailers can put real financial pressure on the land agents.

Taranina

Hi, I am local to Bury and have lived here most of my life. I park and shop at Woodfields on a regular basis. Yesterday I received a parking fine from 'Parking Eye'. This has never happened before. I had been to the medical centre in the centre of Bury and did some shopping in Tesco and Boots. Because my appointment at the doctors was delayed, I was longer than I had intended to be, resulting in parking at Woodfields for 3 hours and 32 minutes. I have read through the forums and am asking for advice please.

Umkomaas

I have read through the forums and am asking for advice please.

Have you read the NEWBIES FAQ sticky? That tells you how to deal with your problem. It's not a skim-read advisory thread, because you've not got a skim-read problem. It will take work to get rid of it and you will need to understand how to do it

But this isn't the thread to deal with it; you need one of your own where advice will be pertinent to your issue. Please open a new thread if, after reading and digesting the sticky, you are unclear on anything.