Parking Code evidence - pictures of signs with £50, £60 or £70 PCN and no £ DRA fee on the sign

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Barker & Stonehouse
Old Shoreham Road
Hove

On a main road near other retailers.

Looks like they close a barrier at night:

NO PPC

NO CARMAGEDDON

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Opposite the above retailer is

Homebase
Old Shoreham Road
Hove



Homebase & Carpetright seem to think they need G24 and £100 PCN charge despite the fact my friend tells me the car park is never full. Borne out by the fact they are selling longer term parking.

INADEQUATE SIGNS = NO DETERRENT

You get a PCN for staying over an hour.  

Complicated system by all accounts which requires paid parking after the first hour but there are no P&D machines.

The front of a sign is different from the back.  Massive green sign offering pay by phone but it mentions no penalty nor warns to read the back of the sign:




By comparison, the so-called contractual sign for £100 is half the size, tiny text and unreadable:

My friend saw no 'have you paid?' reminder signs, so people spending time designing a kitchen in Homebase get a £100 nasty surprise in the post 2 weeks later.

Wholly inadequate 'entrance sign' which is no deterrent at all.  Nothing at all as you approach:

Just this on the left, badly faded, unreadable ANPR data use info / GDPR warning and it doesn't mention the 1 hour free parking restriction:

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My friend in the Portslade area took pics in the same road as Homebase, of these units:

Hove Technology Centre, St Joseph’s Business Park, Hove BN3 7ES

Confusing, as it's a group of units/meeting rooms etc. that are owned & provided by BHCC but there's no penalty for parking there.

NO PPC

NO ENFORCEABLE RULES

NO PARKING PLACES ORDER OR PENALTY

NO CARMAGEDDON

Close up of that BHCC sign on the right:

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Further down, the same road calls itself:

St Josephs Business Park
Hove

Loads of business units

NO PPC - NOW THAT OPS RAN AWAY!

THE BUSINESS PARK IS COPING FINE

NO CARMAGEDDON

OPS disappeared & left their signs to rot:

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In the leafy residential area above Hove Park BN3 my contact found another home-made private road sign put up by a group of residents at Kelly Road, Hove, BN3

They are wrongly threatening clamping, but in an area of otherwise restricted permit parking on-street this deters abuse.

NO PPC

NO CARMAGEDDON

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One more home-made sign that my Portslade area friend discovered:

Pavilion & Avenue Tennis Club
The Droveway
Hove
BN3

In an area of restricted permit parking

NO PPC

NO CARMAGEDDON

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Example of
Inadequate signs = no deterrent

No idea how much £ the PCN is because the PCM sign has faded so much and my Portslade relative said there were no signs at the bays inside.

Portslade Mews
Brighton
East Sussex

NO ££ SIGNS = NO DETERRENT

Fruitcake

That last site quotes a prohibited premium rate 'phone number. That plus the faded Ts and Cs is yet more proof that PPCs don't spend any money on maintaining signs.

Fruitcake

A useful photo' from a poster on another thread.



Parking charge - unreadable number plate/10 minute grace period — MoneySavingExpert Forum

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Fruitcake said:

A useful photo' from a poster on another thread.



Parking charge - unreadable number plate/10 minute grace period — MoneySavingExpert Forum

Yes, good spot.

Useful to show a £60 PCN in bright, large text.

Also, like ParkingEye and some others, ParkWithEase don't state the discount on the sign, which is a GOOD thing.  No need.

A better deterrent without.

Also you can pay at any time (not on entry).

That sign is what good looks like, IMHO.