Parking stories in the News/media

pinkelephant12

People power!  After complaints from members of the public, discussions took place between the District Council and Sainsbury’s which resulted in night time parking restrictions being removed.  Perhaps a breach of planning permission?

https://www.braintreeandwithamtimes.co.uk/news/23378728.braintree-sainsburys-new-parking-system-scrapped/

patient_dream

pinkelephant12 said:

People power!  After complaints from members of the public, discussions took place between the District Council and Sainsbury’s which resulted in night time parking restrictions being removed.  Perhaps a breach of planning permission?

https://www.braintreeandwithamtimes.co.uk/news/23378728.braintree-sainsburys-new-parking-system-scrapped/

GOOD POST ... wonder what joker at Sainsbury's thought that one up especially as they are desperate to get shoppers back from Aldi and Lidl

Good on the Council for slapping Sainsbury's 

Umkomaas

pinkelephant12 said:

People power!  After complaints from members of the public, discussions took place between the District Council and Sainsbury’s which resulted in night time parking restrictions being removed.  Perhaps a breach of planning permission?

https://www.braintreeandwithamtimes.co.uk/news/23378728.braintree-sainsburys-new-parking-system-scrapped/

Sainsbury’s has confirmed it will revert to its unrestricted and free parking after 6pm and will instruct its parking operator to amend the system and signage accordingly. 

I wonder if that's going to cost them?  Certainly the cost of new signage!

patient_dream

NOT PRIVATE PARKING but one must wonder which one of the membership clubs advised the councils on this latest wheeze

I would not mind so much if councils allocated the money to the needs of real people and stop making jigsaws in our third world country roads

There is a solution ...... Rishi has given £500 million to France ?? 
The Councils could borrow the money from France to fix our areas.
The last handout to France was £275 million ... NICE SMOOTH ROADS IN FRANCE

As cars can only get to private car parks via public roads, then from the future £50 ticket ... the councils should tax the private operators £20 for the upkeep of public roads

HERE IS THE LATEST JOKE ...

'Cash cow' drivers hit as councils are set to hike car parking charges by as much as double in what critics say is an unfair plan to plug funding gaps by targeting motorists

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11849375/Cash-cow-drivers-hit-councils-set-hike-car-parking-charges-double.html

Jenni_D

Umkomaas said:

pinkelephant12 said:

People power!  After complaints from members of the public, discussions took place between the District Council and Sainsbury’s which resulted in night time parking restrictions being removed.  Perhaps a breach of planning permission?

https://www.braintreeandwithamtimes.co.uk/news/23378728.braintree-sainsburys-new-parking-system-scrapped/

Sainsbury’s has confirmed it will revert to its unrestricted and free parking after 6pm and will instruct its parking operator to amend the system and signage accordingly. 

I wonder if that's going to cost them?  Certainly the cost of new signage!

Nah - they'll just affix stickers over the existing signage. 🙄

Half_way

patient_dream said:

pinkelephant12 said:

People power!  After complaints from members of the public, discussions took place between the District Council and Sainsbury’s which resulted in night time parking restrictions being removed.  Perhaps a breach of planning permission?

https://www.braintreeandwithamtimes.co.uk/news/23378728.braintree-sainsburys-new-parking-system-scrapped/

GOOD POST ... wonder what joker at Sainsbury's thought that one up especially as they are desperate to get shoppers back from Aldi and Lidl

Good on the Council for slapping Sainsbury's 

When Supermarkets opened in close proximity to town centres, in quite a few cases one of the conditions placed upon them was that their car parks had to be available free of charge to people using the local shops/facilities and/or for community use.

 Quite a few of these town centre supermarkets were built on land previously used as a car park

Boat_to_Bolivia

Half_way said:

patient_dream said:

pinkelephant12 said:

People power!  After complaints from members of the public, discussions took place between the District Council and Sainsbury’s which resulted in night time parking restrictions being removed.  Perhaps a breach of planning permission?

https://www.braintreeandwithamtimes.co.uk/news/23378728.braintree-sainsburys-new-parking-system-scrapped/

GOOD POST ... wonder what joker at Sainsbury's thought that one up especially as they are desperate to get shoppers back from Aldi and Lidl

Good on the Council for slapping Sainsbury's 

When Supermarkets opened in close proximity to town centres, in quite a few cases one of the conditions placed upon them was that their car parks had to be available free of charge to people using the local shops/facilities and/or for community use.

 Quite a few of these town centre supermarkets were built on land previously used as a car park

Oh the irony!

Coupon-mad

Clueless SNP gets asked to assist a disabled constituent who has been sent an unfair UKPA Private PCN (that they can OBVIOUSLY IGNORE, it being Scotland), but instead of a sensible answer, the SNP starts talking about the availability of Council disabled bays on-street:
https://www.largsandmillportnews.com/news/23361337.frail-oap-hit-largs-parking-fine---despite-blue-badge/

"Margorie Boyle, 90, was parked in the M&Co (Largs) car park late last year, and despite telling the owners UKPA about her disability, has now had her appeal rejected .

The pensioner insists she has parked for free in the facility for years and said she did not see any signs that the new owners had changed policy and now charged for the use of disabled bays."

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Useless waste of time, if Scottish MPs don't know that people there can and should currently ignore Scottish private PCNs (in 2023) and that a 'PCN' like this is considered by most canny MPs to be an "outrageous scam".

Things will change in 2024 when PPCs are regulated in the UK (including in Scotland) but it seems that particular SNP can't even tell the difference between a Council PCN and a scam private one!

Coupon-mad

Yet another pointless predatory ParkingEye PCN issued to a genuine Asda cashpoint patron:
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/driver-gets-asda-parking-fine-26464007.amp

The shocked nurse said:

“I just needed the cashpoint to get some money out on a Sunday. My battery had been playing up but I didn’t expect it not to work.

“I went to Asda out of store hours. It was flat and I called my husband who came from home and we got my car started. I wasn’t aware of the parking restrictions and about a week later I got the parking charge for £70.

A sign above the cashpoints says '24 hour cash'. But the signs in the car park state: "3 hours max stay. NO PARKING OUTSIDE OF STORE OPENING HOURS." With further details in very small print".

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So according to ParkingEye, despite Asda's invitation to 24 hour cash, people with a car can't get cash out.

ParkingEye refused the appeal. Quelle surprise.

Asda cancelled it begrudgingly, according to the report.  

SHAME ON THEM BOTH.  

Coupon-mad

Another one but this time I'm naming and shaming Gloucester City Council:
https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/coventry-man-hit-80-parking-26466761.amp

The driver legitimately paid the advertised rate for 3 hours before 6pm.

There was a cheaper night rate after that but he didn't want to hang around, so he paid the correct rate for the time he parked.

The machine swallowed his £2.50 but printed out a ticket that was valid for just SEVEN MINUTES, till 6pm.

Then they sent him a £80 parking charge notice.

AND THIS WAS A COUNCIL!

Every bit as bad as a PPC, this one.

"Gloucester City Council did not respond to requests for comment when approached by GloucestershireLive. A spokesperson for the local authority previously said: “Southgate Moorings Car Park operates two tariffs, a daytime rate until 6pm and an evening rate from 6pm until 7am."