Aldi, Corporation Street, Preston. Abused Patron Parking.

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fisherjim said:

abused patron parking

What on earth does this nonsense mean in English, it sounds like they are trying to trap the keeper to admit to doing something as they haven't got a reason yet.

It could mean that the parking spaces are only for people who have suffered from some sort of abuse be that mental, financial physical and so on.

 If its a driver left site case, then they wil need to prove that the driver and all ocupants left the site. Ibotson and the toothbrush springs to mind here

foden11

Le_Kirk said:

foden11 said:

Is this a  new tactic, they usually take photo of empty car then claim abused patron parking,
They will dismiss your appeal claiming planning is old and no longer applies, parking is in fact 2 hours as i noticed today.
Tomorrow i will pm you land agents contact name she is difficult to get on with but if you have prove of shopping there it should work .

How does a photo of an empty car prove the driver left the site?  Do these idiotic PPCs believe that people should just drive to a car park, park there and sit in their car, not going into any of the retail units?

Apparently so they are well know at this car park for doing this, they did to for my wife unfortunately for them she arrived in car park 4 hours before they claimed and works in one of the shops on site, coupon mad has the whole story

foden11

Mrs Bond.
  PM sent 

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If the driver/ocupants have some evidence that they did not leave site - anything from a  witness statement to a mobile phones location history ( ie google maps timeline)  then the parking company and/or landowner who contrted the PPC could be looking at a GDPR breach and all that  that entails.

  There has been at least one case reported on here recently where someone successfuly ussed GDPR

Mrs_Bond

By way of an update. I have written to Adli customer services who very sweetly said there was nothing they could do...not the landowners etc. Suggested I appeal and let them know what Ocean Parking say and they maybe able to help at that point!!!! They also could not provide me with the landowners details.
Someone on the is site has very kindly forwarded them to me and I have wirtten a email to them to asking why genuine shoppers are being issued with parking ticket. I will let you know what the response is.
I have diarised to lodge an appeal at day 26.
Thanks everyone for your help so far.

Umkomaas

Aldi generally only get directly involved where they have a car park that's linked to their store when they are the sole occupier. Their major parking management provider for Aldi is ParkingEye; they won't be getting involved with small fry like Ocean.  They might have the opportunity to influence the odd ticket post appeal rejection by Ocean, hence their advice to get back to them then, but I wouldn't hold my breath. 

Coupon-mad

Mrs_Bond said:

I have diarised to lodge an appeal at day 26.

As long as you don't write an appeal as driver!

Nor talk about the story of what happened.  The win that awaits is for an appellant registered keeper, assuming this is a non-POFA NTK, as usual for Highview.

Hopefully the landowners will cancel it.

foden11

Coupon mad might also be interested in this in her on going work as it is very similar to our case. 

B789

I think "abusing a patron" has criminal overtones. Maybe you should ask the PPC what precisely they mean by "abuse" and in exactly what context. Maybe they could open themselves up to a slander lawsuit.

Umkomaas

The previous threads talked about Care Parking not Ocean Parking 

Both trading arms of Anchor Security Services. Same dog, different fleas!

https://www.britishparking.co.uk/BPA-Approved-Operators