And so it begins - Fast food drive through feeding frenzy for PPC's as well

Half_way

When the fast food drive through's started re-opening for some strange reason some people flocked to these places resulting in huge queues just for some greasy fried chicken, sitting in a drive through queue for food knows how long, then possibly followed up by munching the stuff in a car park has had the knock on effect of being a gift to the PPCs

https://metro.co.uk/2020/06/17/kfc-customers-hit-parking-fines-queuing-drive-thru-two-hours-12863634/

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Hungry KFC customers queuing up at a drive-thru were shocked to be hit with £100 parking fines for waiting too long in the car park. The parking charge notices were issued to people who waited longer than the 75 minutes permitted at the KFC drive-thru in Rock Ferry, the Wirral. This was despite long queues which left people with waiting times of up to two hours or more. Even though none of the customers were in parking bays, they were automatically hit with fines because their car registration was caught on CCTV when they entered the KFC site and when they left, which showed they had stayed over the maximum time allowed. The first people knew about it was when a letter landed on their doormat from private car park operators Civil Enforcement a few days later, ordering them to pay a £100 parking charge – reduced to £60 if paid within 14 days.

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Coupon-mad

Could have predicted this would happen.  KFC need a barrage of complaints.  They should have ordered their dogs to switch the camera off during lockdown relaxation months, but did they?  No.  Will they do this and cancel PCNs?  Yes, I am sure they can, if pressure is applied.

beamerguy

Trust it be CEL ???? .....   Sad for CEL, it's back to the food bank for them 
We are going to see a lot of these and the nearly bust parking scammers are going to up the scam.  We are going to be busy.

Apart from Abuse of process, dodgy fake contracts, fake pictures....... ANPR is not fit for purpose whilst there is social distancing which means extra time required

The judges will have fun

Half_way

Its a shame the Car wasnt parked , parking company and its principal has no rights to access process data, KFC ( franchise) in breach of GDPR angle cant be/isnt being pursued

bargepole

People who are stupid enough to eat the disgusting greasy muck served up in such outlets, and even more stupid enough to queue for 2 hours to get it, deserve everything that happens to them.

D_P_Dance

As waiting in a queue in a drive though is not parking, DVLA details will have been obtained without due cause.  The PPC are going to regret issuing these ticket and KC will have to spend a lot of money dealing with this.

twhitehousescat

D_P_Dance said:

As waiting in a queue in a drive though is not parking, DVLA details will have been obtained without due cause.  The PPC are going to regret issuing these ticket and KC will have to spend a lot of money dealing with this.

I suspect the tickets were given not for parking , but for being on the land in excess of permitted.time
ANPR cameras do not watch you parking up and exiting your car , they record details of entry to land time and time land exited , this is the reason we have grace periods  

D_P_Dance

I suspect the tickets were given not for parking , but for being on the land in excess of permitted.time

Perhaps, but the permitted time is for parking.  The purpose of the car being there was NOT for parking.  DVLA details therefore  wrongly obtained.  imo.

Half_way

D_P_Dance said:

I suspect the tickets were given not for parking , but for being on the land in excess of permitted.time

Perhaps, but the permitted time is for parking.  The purpose of the car being there was NOT for parking.  DVLA details therefore  wrongly obtained.  imo.

There have been a few cases where it was judged that waiting is not parking, so by its very nature a Parking charge notice was incorrectly issued.

 A few GDPR claims against landowners ( such as KFC franchisees) may sharpen minds a little

Umkomaas

A few GDPR claims against landowners ( such as KFC franchisees) may sharpen minds a little

Yeah, but who's going to do that?  Needs more grit and resilience than that displayed by most of the snowflakes who come here who struggle to put anything together unless there's a template, then have to copy and paste it back and ask if it's the correct one. 

twhitehousescat

99.9 of all airport cases are stopping , not parking , the BPA and IPC allow members to access the DVLA  for those sites , the DVLA clearly know the locations and reasons , 
but before we get carried away , v888/3 for use by companies that issur parking charges , asks REASON for wanting info , as v888/3 is used for reasons other than parking 

the (sad) link shows signage that does not actually state parking , it states "time on land "


and in the (sad) link KFC staff member (kevin) said we will get those fines quoshed , or poshly "Our longer than usual queues did result in a few unfair fines for the car park but we’ve put that right now by cancelling the charges.’" right , kevin