Parking charge after paying for residents' parking in hospital accommodation

fisherjim

Private parking companies are just interested in scamming people out of money they will tell you all manner of rubbish to get you to pay.
Take the advice from the experts on here or stop wasting their time, it's as simple as that.

The_Deep

There is a further aspect to this, which has not been mentioned, v.a.t.

If the PPC are claiming that the funny money they want is a contractually agreed charge, they should, if they have a turnover of £75,000, account for vat. Further reading here.

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/...7925&highlight=

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/...3796&highlight=

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/...5195437&page=4

nigelbb

You entered into a contract with the landowner & paid them for accommodation & parking. You did not enter into a contract with a 3rd party PPC merely by reading their signs. The PPC's offer is pre-empted by your existing contract with the landowner. The landowner has incurred no loss as the parking was paid for. The permit scheme is just a convenience to ascertain who has paid for parking. They could easily have kept a 'white list' of cars permitted to park. In fact if you provided your registration when picking up the permit they already have the list.

plastics

OK Ok, thanks for the advice, get the message...
Will just ignore it now and see what comes through the post next!

matttye

Why not ask the landowner to cancel it?

On the basis that the landowner will have been aware that you had paid for a pass that covered you for a longer period, they shouldn't have ticketed you in the first place.

VCS' alleged contract with you would not override your contract with the landowner.

plastics

On the day, I went straight to the accommodation office (and I am presuming the ones providing the accommodation on that site own the land, but don't know for sure), and the accommodation officer there simply said that they put notices up (on sheets of A4 paper) and stick them on the entrance doors of the blocks, to remind residents to renew permits a few weeks before this 'annual expiry date' of all permits in mid-December....they said it was the tenant's responsibility to be alert to these notices and adequate warning was given, regardless of whether I have paid for the parking upfront for the 4 month stay.....I said so if I joined the hospital accommodation on 14th December, instead of 1st October, and paid for 4 months parking, you would still have given me a permit that expired 2 days later and expected me to come back and get a new permit? No good answer, just jobsworth answers.

I have written to the accommodation company directly to ask them to confirm whether they are the landowner or not, no reply as yet....

Ralph-y

you can consider informing them that if if it ever gets to court then they will be called ..... I bet that they did not offer you a refund of 4 months unused car park fee? .... no of course not .

Keep on at them !

and keep all paperwork

Ralph :cool: