MSE News: Motorists to be given 10 minute leeway when parking tickets run out

bazster

As stated there is nothing illegal about overstaying for 10 minutes in a council car park. And if councils don't like the new regulations they only have themselves to blame as a result of using aggressive parking enforcement as an illegal means of revenue raising.

undercover_peon

I actually had someone say that to me one, I only just went over my time, no you paid for an hour and you were 40 minutes over. You were parked there for over 50% longer than the time you paid for...

That said the real solution is to make it in the councils interest to have a vibrant town center. As I understand it they are only now getting to keep a higher portion of business rates. Anything else is utter madness...

hanlou007

How long before there is a post on here saying........"i went one minute over my grace period and got fined - its not fair"

:rotfl:

The_Deep

Why has this reached 24 posts, it has nothing to do with parking on private land.

miller

hanlou007 wrote: »

How long before there is a post on here saying........"i went one minute over my grace period and got fined - its not fair"

:rotfl:

Exactly. The "line" has to be drawn somewhere. I would have thought not advertising this would have been a better idea, then motorists who overstay by 10 minutes 1 second can't bellyache as they are bang to rights and those who overstay by up to 10 minutes would know nothing about it/have nothing to be agrieved about.

Same principle could apply to bank overdrafts e.g. an unadvertised buffer zone of a tenner say in addition to any facilitiy already organised.

crittertog

ianmac55 wrote: »

So Eric Pickles encourages people to park cars illegally for ten minutes. Must be the first minister in modern history to encourage illegality.

It has a reasonable, legitimate basis, however - e.g. you go to a shop, and leave to return to your car in plenty of time. However, as you're leaving there's a sudden downpour, so you hide under the awning (it was sunny, and you don't have a coat), so you're 2-3 minutes late (I seem to remember this being upheld in a court case, although that could be my memory inventing things). Obviously, that doesn't mean people won't abuse it ...

System

The_Deep wrote: »

Why has this reached 24 posts, it has nothing to do with parking on private land.

Well the title of the forum is 'Parking Tickets, Fines & Parking' so the subject of this thread covers at least 2 of the 3 items in the title and probably the 3rd as well

I don't see anything to say it is limited to only POFA & PPCs