Parking Fines.

j.e.j.

.. as has been said, you need to go over to the cars board.

peter_the_piper

j.e.j. wrote: »

So were you parked illegally or weren't you?

I'm guessing you overstayed the 2.5 hour limit, thinking it was a 3 hour limit. So the fine would be correct, though annoying!

Illegal only applies to some council and police enforced limits. Private parking is only a commercial contract. As above a trawl on the parking forum would help.

j.e.j.

peter_the_piper wrote: »

Illegal only applies to some council and police enforced limits. Private parking is only a commercial contract. As above a trawl on the parking forum would help.

I must plead ignorance, not being a car driver myself, but I know that for example if you park in our carpark where we live and you don't have a valid permit, the clampers will come along and you pay in excess of £150 to get it unclamped :eek:

itch_for_a_glitch

j.e.j. wrote: »

I must plead ignorance, not being a car driver myself, but I know that for example if you park in our carpark where we live and you don't have a valid permit, the clampers will come along and you pay in excess of £150 to get it unclamped :eek:

Clamping ? In 2015 ?

You sure ?

Johno100

j.e.j. wrote: »

I must plead ignorance, not being a car driver myself, but I know that for example if you park in our carpark where we live and you don't have a valid permit, the clampers will come along and you pay in excess of £150 to get it unclamped :eek:

Not for the last two and a half years they haven't because that is illegal.

pogofish

j.e.j. wrote: »

I must plead ignorance, not being a car driver myself, but I know that for example if you park in our carpark where we live and you don't have a valid permit, the clampers will come along and you pay in excess of £150 to get it unclamped :eek:

Utter rot.....!

Clamping was banned back in 2012 - so anyone (other than authorities with statutory backing like VOSA or councils) clamping todat are the ones acting illegally!

RichardD1970

Innys1 wrote: »

Why would anyone spend more than 2.5 hours parked in an Asda car park? Even if you WERE shopping there, why would it take more than 2.5 hours?

Grocery shopping is my vision of hell - I'm in and out of the supermarket in no more than an hour. I can understand others may take longer to do their shopping but 2.5 hours.............seriously?

Asda sell much more than groceries. Maybe they went shoe or clothes shopping with the misses? Could easily eat up more than 2.5 hrs. :rotfl:

FatAndy

Johno100 wrote: »

Well that may have been a planning condition imposed by the council when the store was built to encourage trade and improve parking facilities in that part of the town.

I don't know if this was the case with Asda in Llandudno but the store was built on the site of the town's secondary school. In order to allow Asda to build there a new school was built on a toxic waste site on the outskirts of town. Regardless of planning conditions Asda should feel an obligation to return something to the local community given the health risks they have imposed on the town's future generations.

Ironically the problem with allowing non-customers to park there wouldn't be anything to do with space, the car park is never close to being full, but the poorly designed layout. They can't cope with large volumes of cars trying to leave at the same time. What they need to do is get together with the council and try to find a way of creating a new entry/exit point so they don't have to chase away potential customers instead.

FatAndy

lighting_up_the_chalice wrote: »

The alternative is to build a car park and see it full of other peoples customers. The main Asda in Llandudno, for example, is very convenient for the town centre and the railway station. If I was commuting and presented with the opportunity of free parking, I'd be a fool to turn it down.

There are far more convenient places than Asda in Llandudno to park if you're going into Llandudno town centre or the station that are free and have no time restrictions (not that I'm going to give any secrets away ).

lighting_up_the_chalice

FatAndy wrote: »

There are far more convenient places than Asda in Llandudno to park if you're going into Llandudno town centre or the station that are free and have no time restrictions (not that I'm going to give any secrets away ).

Must make you wonder why anyone would be foolish enough to stay for more than 2 1/2 hours in an inconvenient, difficult to access car park when there are so many free alternatives nearby?