ANPR systems , paying car parks and trading Stds

fisherjim

Dr._Shoe wrote: »

It's a three hour limit. That should be ample time to find a space, shop at Asda, return to your car, queue up to exit.

The last time I went to my local Asda (2 hour limit) I was in and out within 55 minutes and that included a coffee in the in-store cafe.

The problem here is that the store is in the town centre and people go elsewhere to shop, many of them not even setting foot in the store that so generously provides them with free parking. That is why it is difficult to find a parking space and you have to queue to get out. Imagine how hard it would be if people were able to leave their cars there when they go to work!

Have you actually considered that may have been a condition of the original planning consent?

bazster

Redx wrote: »

I know when my wife and sister go shopping on retail parks they would regularly "go over" the limits set by a PPC, have done in fact, due to visiting say 7 shops and a restaurant for lunch on a 30+ retailer complex like Crown Point North where PE have a 4 hour limit yet its easy to spend more time on there due to the high number of shops and businesses

What if there's a DIY barn on the site and you have an appointment with, say, a kitchen planner? That alone can take 2-3 hours.

ManxRed

Dr._Shoe wrote: »

It's a three hour limit. That should be ample time to find a space, shop at Asda, return to your car, queue up to exit.

The last time I went to my local Asda (2 hour limit) I was in and out within 55 minutes and that included a coffee in the in-store cafe.

The problem here is that the store is in the town centre and people go elsewhere to shop, many of them not even setting foot in the store that so generously provides them with free parking. That is why it is difficult to find a parking space and you have to queue to get out. Imagine how hard it would be if people were able to leave their cars there when they go to work!

Fantastic. So there you have it everyone. Just live your lives to Dr Shoe's standards and, in the words of the great Bob Marley, every little thing's gonna be alright.

Why didn't I think of that?

Coupon-mad

It's a three hour limit. That should be ample time to find a space, shop at Asda, return to your car, queue up to exit.

The last time I went to my local Asda (2 hour limit) I was in and out within 55 minutes and that included a coffee in the in-store cafe.

And you didn't have children with you, were not trying on clothing and were not frail, elderly, were not disabled or with any impairment which might cause people to need to take their time while shopping.

Think of the rest of the population and don't assume people have gone elsewhere (or even that they are not allowed to go elsewhere whilst parked, as others have pointed out, many retail park Planning Consents insist on it). There is always this assumption that people have shopped somewhere else and 'abused the facility' but that's a myth touted by the parking firms, just as they tout the myth that all disabled parkers have to show a Blue badge and no-one else is allowed a reasonable adjustment of time.

trisontana

A perfect example has just popped up on PPP:-

Received a Parking Charge Notice from Morrisons, Palmers Green, this morning.
I was shopping in Morrisons on the day in question. As it was a blistering hot day I went for a drink in the store coffee shop before shopping.
As a consequence I was in the car park for 2 hrs 33 minutes

This was Parking Eye

Coupon-mad

Luckily for them, Morrisons will cancel within 48 hours if they email a complaint to Head Office. Also Morrisons are not signing a witness statement for POPLA purposes so PE always lose against a decent appeal.

trisontana

I hear that the new boss at Morrisons is not the greatest fan of Parking Eye

ManxRed

trisontana wrote: »

A perfect example has just popped up on PPP:-

Received a Parking Charge Notice from Morrisons, Palmers Green, this morning.
I was shopping in Morrisons on the day in question. As it was a blistering hot day I went for a drink in the store coffee shop before shopping.
As a consequence I was in the car park for 2 hrs 33 minutes

This was Parking Eye

Yes, but they failed to ask themselves 'what would Dr Shoe do?' before making any decisions, and as a result of that they deserve to be ticketed.

gratuitous

A similar thing happened to friends of mine - actually in a car park in Crewe (Cheshire). Not sure which company it is. It is just a patch of land not affiliated to any particular shops.


The camera in and out claimed they had exceeded three hours by two minutes (!). Their ticket (which fortunately was still in the car two weeks later) showed that they were within the three hours by two minutes.


They told the PCP where to go, but I suspect many people do not retain their parking tickets as evidence.

bazster

trisontana wrote: »

I hear that the new boss at Morrisons is not the greatest fan of Parking Eye

People say this but I've written to him twice now and haven't even received an acknowledgement. Suggests to me he doesn't give a sh|t any more than his predecessor did. At least his predecessor would get an excuses weasel to reply to me with a pack of lies.