Parking stories in the News/media

1505grandad

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""We have now paid the fine because we didn't see any point in taking it to a court case which I imagine a lot of people will do as the appeals process is so pointless."

Mrs Maitland's daughter, Wendy, also had the same experience on the same day as she joined the birthday celebrations and has subsequently paid the same charge after losing her appeal. 

Several similar cases have taken place at Cardinal Park car park in the past few years with residents charged for tickets they were told they didn't need to buy. 

Euro Car Parks was repeatedly approached for comment."

Umkomaas

Coupon-mad said:

NCC1701-A said:

I haven't read the article as I don't want to sign up to spam , but the man on the clapham omnibus might consider this as entrapment

https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/25397498.ipswich-woman-fined-cardinal-park-ticket-machines-error/

Mrs Maitland was heading out to celebrate her granddaughter's birthday with a family dinner at Nando's back in April when she encountered all of the parking machines telling her:

"You do not need to pay, simply leave the car park."

Weeks later she received a charge in the post stating that she hadn't bought a parking ticket. She added: "The initial fine was £60 but since we had evidence of what the machine told us we thought we had an great shot at winning our appeal."

POPLA reportedly told her to "pay up because other people had".

That's not true! Clearly POPLA said "pay up because other people had managed to pay around that time" i.e. the daft POPLA Assessor ignored her evidence.

Dunno the outcome because the page reset and plonked up the paywall. Anyone?

She paid up! 😩

Coupon-mad

Classy (not!) update on the Hannah Robinson case from Excel Parking:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce83n7j7p6po

Having lost this well-publicised case earlier this year as '5 minute rule' PCNs here were 'inherently preposterous and unfair under the CRA 2015, Excel actually tried to appeal against the COSTS THEY WERE ORDERED TO PAY TO CHARITY.

You could not make it up.

Of course, they did. And lost again!

Maybe they even questioned (who knows?) whether HHJ Robinson was related to the Defendant, knowing Excel...

Nellymoser

When is a 10-minutes parking limit not a 10-minute limit? When it’s in the Hill House car park, Kendal Road, Totland.

https://iwobserver.co.uk/clocked-and-shocked-at-hill-house-car-park/

David Morey parked on the property of Southern Housing between 9.38pm and 9.48pm. He was shocked to receive a letter issuing him with a £100 pcn as there's a 10-minute limit for unregistered vehicles before CPM issue a pcn.

The Isle of Wight Observer asked if 9.38pm to 9.48pm counted as 10 or 11 minutes, but Southern Housing declined to elaborate.

Nellymoser

Parking Apps Can Lead to Penalty Charges

https://insurance-edge.net/2025/08/19/parking-apps-can-lead-to-penalty-charges/

Parking apps are falling short of drivers’ expectations, according to new research from temporary car insurance experts Uswitch. Though designed to simplify parking, drivers are being left frustrated by unfair fines, the hassle of managing multiple apps, and a lack of transparent pricing.

The reporter states "Some useful advice here from Uswitch, although of course all parking disputes on private land are civil cases – you don’t get a fine, that’s for an on-road parking issue." 

Kaizen2024

Nellymoser said:

When is a 10-minutes parking limit not a 10-minute limit? When it’s in the Hill House car park, Kendal Road, Totland.

https://iwobserver.co.uk/clocked-and-shocked-at-hill-house-car-park/

David Morey parked on the property of Southern Housing between 9.38pm and 9.48pm. He was shocked to receive a letter issuing him with a £100 pcn as there's a 10-minute limit for unregistered vehicles before CPM issue a pcn.

The Isle of Wight Observer asked if 9.38pm to 9.48pm counted as 10 or 11 minutes, but Southern Housing declined to elaborate.

10 minutes, 1 second and beyond is more than 10 minutes.

Ralph-y

🤣🤣🤣 ......   its definitely the drivers fault 🤣🤣🤣

Le_Kirk

Kaizen2024 said:

10 minutes, 1 second and beyond is more than 10 minutes.

De minimis non curat lex!

Nellymoser

🤷‍♂️  had to Google that one Le_Kirk 

Coupon-mad

Kaizen2024 said:

Nellymoser said:

When is a 10-minutes parking limit not a 10-minute limit? When it’s in the Hill House car park, Kendal Road, Totland.

https://iwobserver.co.uk/clocked-and-shocked-at-hill-house-car-park/

David Morey parked on the property of Southern Housing between 9.38pm and 9.48pm. He was shocked to receive a letter issuing him with a £100 pcn as there's a 10-minute limit for unregistered vehicles before CPM issue a pcn.

The Isle of Wight Observer asked if 9.38pm to 9.48pm counted as 10 or 11 minutes, but Southern Housing declined to elaborate.

10 minutes, 1 second and beyond is more than 10 minutes.

But the grace period is a minimum and the MHCLG will restore consideration periods.

You'll see. All in good time.

Why does the industry think this treatment of consumers is socially acceptable? I wouldn't be able to do what these aggressive greedy thugs do to people.