ANPR/Ticketless parking - incoming fine?

lw373

Hi all,

I used an ANPR/Ticketless controlled car park yesterday and made the error of leaving without having any details set-up in the system to automatically pay for my stay (my stay was about 20 minutes at most), surprisingly the barrier went up without making a manual payment either.

I realised my error as soon as I got in and signed up for ticketless parking in the relevant area (Canterbury) and added my payment details and car details etc. I've contacted them regarding this and explained the situation but I won't get a response for a few days looking at their auto-reply.

Do you guys think I've got a fine incoming for this? My only saving graces are that it was a short stay and that I signed up within 30 mins of leaving.

Cheers

waamo

Council or private parking? If it was a private company which one?

lw373

waamo wrote: »

Council or private parking? If it was a private company which one?

Council as far as I can tell

Redx

Then take it to pepipoo fightback forum using a Gmail address, not Hotmail, and ask in their council section

fisherjim

Councils aren't supposed to use ANPR systems in off street car parks, why do you say it's council?

waamo

fisherjim wrote: »

Councils aren't supposed to use ANPR systems in off street car parks, why do you say it's council?

Iirc (I've been to Canterbury a few times) they use an anpr system to collect payment. They have plate level cameras as you enter car parks. It's a bit of a faff as a system.

fisherjim

waamo wrote: »

Iirc (I've been to Canterbury a few times) they use an anpr system to collect payment. They have plate level cameras as you enter car parks. It's a bit of a faff as a system.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2960986/Thousands-rip-parking-fines-dished-town-hall-car-parks-illegally-using-automatic-number-plate-recognition.html

Umkomaas

fisherjim wrote: »

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2960986/Thousands-rip-parking-fines-dished-town-hall-car-parks-illegally-using-automatic-number-plate-recognition.html

And you have to ask the question why 'accountable' councils are forbidden from using ANPR cameras in car parks, while wholly unaccountable and largely out of control private parking companies are allowed to increasingly use them to raid millions of motorists' bank accounts each year?

Coupon-mad

Yep. How on earth is ANPR allowed to be abused by scammers?

fisherjim

Coupon-mad wrote: »

Yep. How on earth is ANPR allowed to be abused by scammers?

I used to work in the brewing industry, pubs had/have Optics that are government sealed to measure correctly, beer especially in the North was in some accounts metered by government stamped 1/2pt meters.


Trading Standards (or the old Weights and Measures) officers make spot checks and cut the seals on any under or even over measuring equipment and forbid its use, they will then come back to ensure compliance to protect the public.
They also take samples of liquors for laboratory dilution checks.


Yet any old Muppet can set up any old ANPR equipment they like and charge victims £100 a throw on any spurious timings they like, unchecked and unchallenged by any authority, with systems that have no calibration checks by any third party.


Absolutely unbelievable, I hope parliaments new COP gets to the bottom of this and bans it as they have in local authority car parks, but I am not holding my breath!

twhitehousescat

but , but , but PPCs have "special" ANPR cameras (not just anybody's cameras) , those special automatic NUMBERPLATE recognition cameras , can see people leaving sites on foot .