10 minutes and 56 seconds!

Timothyayre

Hello
I have a parking charge notice from ParkingEye.
It states that I entered the car park at 7:02:45 and left at 7:13:45.
It says time in car park: 0 hours 10 minutes.
My understanding is that 10 minutes is the permittable grace period. The PCN says 10 minutes, although technically I was in the car park for 10 minutes 56 seconds.
Do I have any grounds for appeal here or should I just pay the £60?

Timothyayre

Sorry that should say that I left at 7:13:41

mollycat

Timothyayre wrote: »

Hello
I have a parking charge notice from ParkingEye.
It states that I entered the car park at 7:02:45 and left at 7:13:45.
It says time in car park: 0 hours 10 minutes.
My understanding is that 10 minutes is the permittable grace period. The PCN says 10 minutes, although technically I was in the car park for 10 minutes 56 seconds.
Do I have any grounds for appeal here or should I just pay the £60?

Sorry to be pendantic, but unless that's a typo those times show your stay as 11 minutes.

Not sure about this "grace period", (?urban myth). If you didn't pay for parking when you should have of course you should pay the fine.

EssexExile

The parking ticket board is further up.

From a personal view, you should pay to park, some companies kindly allow 10 minutes grace, you overstayed, you pay.

Mercdriver

Surely grace period covers overstaying when you have paid for a period of time, not when parking and not paying?

Car_54

Timothyayre wrote: »

Hello
I have a parking charge notice from ParkingEye.
It states that I entered the car park at 7:02:45 and left at 7:13:45.
It says time in car park: 0 hours 10 minutes.
My understanding is that 10 minutes is the permittable grace period. The PCN says 10 minutes, although technically I was in the car park for 10 minutes 56 seconds.
Do I have any grounds for appeal here or should I just pay the £60?

What do you mean by "technically"? You were there for more than 10 minutes.

AdrianC

I assume the "grace period" is that if you stay for less than ten minutes, no fee or penalty is due.

There is clearly photographic evidence that you were there for more than ten minutes.

shaun_from_Africa

Mercdriver wrote: »

Surely grace period covers overstaying when you have paid for a period of time, not when parking and not paying?

Some car parks give you a period between which you can enter and leave without being required to pay so if you go in and can't find an empty space then you can drive out again and not get charged.

neilmcl

shaun_from_Africa wrote: »

Some car parks give you a period between which you can enter and leave without being required to pay so if you go in and can't find an empty space then you can drive out again and not get charged.

Although clearly this isn't what the OP has done. He simply thought he could exploit this for a free bit of parking.

Quentin

@OP

For best advice on how to deal with this read up the newbies faq in the parking sub forum.

Then if you have any questions start a thread in that forum.

Throughout that forum you are advised never to reveal who was driving.

You need to edit your post to remove details of the driver

The ppcs monitor this forum and can use your posts against you

If you have used your real name as your forum name then get mse to change it to something totally anonymous

DoaM

As above, take this to the Parking board ... most people in the Motoring board are not familiar with the specifics relating to private parking.

To dispel the thought that grace periods only apply to paid-for parking ... grace periods are to:

a) Allow you to enter a car park, find a space, find a sign, read the terms and decide whether to accept the terms and stay;
b) Allow you to return to your car and exit the car park.

Each of a) and b) would be eligible for 10 minutes grace periods (so 20 minutes total) per the BPA Code of Practice (to which Parking Eye must abide, although the Pirates of the Caribbean comment applies ... it's more of a guideline than a code).