Smart Parking Fine

JPin

I seem to have received a parking fine for parking in a shop forecourt for around teo hours. Is there any requirement to pay this? 

TOP_CAT

When a judge says so you have 30 days to do so I believe .

Alot more to this though as the PPC,s are unregulated .

Visit the private parking subsection of Motoring for the facts where they win a very high percentage of cases .

p00hsticks

this is the board TOP_CAT is referring to - read all the initial 'sticky' posts to start with.

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/categories/parking-tickets-fines-parking

The action you need to take will depend on the exact circumstances, but I believe the current advice is not to ignore these notices.

snowmen

Are you resident in N.I. and the parking fine issued in N.I.?
If so do nothing.
Don't enter into correspondence and ignore all the letters you will get.
Without them having proof you were the driver at the time, they cannot issue you the fine. 
The only parking fines you have to legally pay in NI are ones issues by traffic wardens.

guiriman

I got one from them last year and followed the advice on the motoring board referred to above ie I appealed it using the recommended wording, refusing to state the driver's name and requesting evidence of signage. My guess is they recognise the wording and give up as I heard nothing more from them

Mistral001

Call me old-fashioned, but my thoughts are that you should only park in parking places belonging to businesses for the purpose of going to that business and when you have finished that business you leave. Back in the day business owners would approach the people who use their parking places as general free parking and remind them what the parking places are provided for.  Now they seem to resort to this taking people to court mullarky but those are the days we live in now. 

 

pogofish

Mistral001 said:

Call me old-fashioned, but my thoughts are that you should only park in parking places belonging to businesses for the purpose of going to that business and when you have finished that business you leave. Back in the day business owners would approach the people who use their parking places as general free parking and remind them what the parking places are provided for.  Now they seem to resort to this taking people to court mullarky but those are the days we live in now. 

 

Its nothing to do with being old fashioned but you clearly have no understanding of how the private parking "industry" works - The facts of any individual case mean absolutely nothing compared to their made-up and quite arbitrary terms and conditions and their ultimate desire to make money, no matter what!

The board linked above will give you plenty of information on how these vultures really work!